November, 2011

Check out Kenon Owens's blog post, Technical Product Manager for System Center, where he discusses infrastructure and network monitoring in System Center Operations Manager 2012. Read Kenon's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog . ...

Check out Adam Hall's blog post, Senior Technical Product Manager for System Center, where he explores how Operations Manager 2012 Release Candidate delivers application performance monitoring. Read Adam's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform...

This is a follow up post to Demo: Automating Service Request Fulfillment from the SCSM Service Catalog with Orchestrator .  You’ll definitely want to watch that one first so that this one makes more sense. In this demo video I show some real world...

The Microsoft Solution Accelerators team is pleased to announce the System Center Cloud Services Process Pack beta.   This project was code named “Andes” if you have heard us refer to it by that name before.   Download the System Center...

While reports are a good way to get data specific for a certain time period, customers like you wanted a way a rich way to visualize data which you could then project and share with your organization. In OpsMgr 2012, we introduced the concept of Dashboards...

Hi everyone, As a follow-up to Friday’s blog post , today we released Security Advisory 2641690 to notify customers that we revoked the trust of DigiCert Sdn.Bhd in an update that moves two Intermediate Certificate Authorities (CA) certificates...

Check out the Server and Cloud Platform Blog post by David Mills! See http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2011/11/10/system-center-operations-manager-2012-release-candidate-from-the-datacenter-to-the-cloud.aspx . Download it now!! ...read...

Check out David Mills's blog post, Senior Product Manager for System Center, where he announces the Release Candidate of Operations Manager 2012. Read David's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog . ...read more

Although you can use the App-V Management Server to gather usage information from clients, many customers have special requirements that could benefit from a customized approach. HTTP Reporting provides a simple way to create a reporting service for App...

Background blog posts for this blog post: Introduction to Service Manager 2012 Service Catalog - Part 1 Request Offering Wizard Overview ========================= Nobody wants to be the poor guy that has to fulfill the routine service requests manually...

In order for a Request Offering to show up in the Service Catalog all of the following must be true: 1) The Request Offering Published property must be ‘Published’ 2) The Request Offering must be included in a Service Offering 3) The Service Offering...

Just a quick heads up on a new KB article we just published this morning on an error you may receive when attempting to install System Center 2012 Orchestrator on a system that had been running Opalis 6.3: ===== Symptoms When installing all components...

Here’s another good KB article we just published.  This one talks about an issue that may occur if you attempt to maintain multiple connections to the App-V client through the client administrative snap-in/console under the same administrative account...

Neil Lydick, one of the devs on our team, came up with this handy PowerShell script with a recursive function that displays the data model in a PowerShell window. Blue classes are abstract. White classes are non-abstract (aka “concrete” classes). Red...

Read this bog post first: http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager/archive/2011/11/08/request-offering-wizard-overview.aspx   In SCSM 2010 we had an Active X control that was used to look up the local computer name that the user was running the...

Hello, On this November Update Tuesday, we’re recapping the BlueHat conference , which Microsoft hosted in Redmond last week. We are also releasing four security updates, so please read on for details. Microsoft hosted its 11th installment...

In preparation for your upgrade to SCSM 2012, you will want to set up a Pre-Production environment to test the upgrade in first.  You will want to make sure that the upgrade goes smoothly and that your customizations are preserved as expected. ...

This is a follow up post to the Request Offering Wizard Overview post and was also written by Neil Lydick. Two Query Results settings cannot be modified in the UI and require manual edits to a configuration file or management pack. These settings include...

This blog post was written by Neil Lydick,one of the developers on the Service Manager team.  Thanks for the write up Neil!  This is very comprehensive! Before you read this post you should read Sean Christensen’s excellent overview of the Service...

Have you downloaded the Systems Center - 2012 Service Manager Beta and installed it yet? If you have, we would like to hear from you! If you have installed the beta, please tell us what you think by completing the Installation Survey . Allow about 15...

Check out Sean Christensen's blog post, Senior Technical Product Manager for System Center, where he discusses some of the new capabilities that are available as part of the release of Service Manager 2012 Beta, specifically the new Service Catalog and...

Hi everyone, Today we released Security Advisory 2639568 to provide customer guidance for the Windows kernel issue related to the Duqu malware. I would like to provide you information on how to protect your system(s), how we are addressing the issue...

Hi everyone, This post is to notify customers that Microsoft will revoke trust in an Intermediate Certificate Authority, DigiCert Sdn. Bhd. (Digicert Malaysia) in an update to be released through Windows Update. DigiCert Sdn. Bhd is a Malaysian...

For MED-V V1, we made the following recommendations for MED-V workspaces running in NAT Mode (using VPC Shared Networking.) The article is found here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/medv/archive/2010/10/20/additional-recommendations-when-using-med-v-workspaces...

Bryan Allen and Mike DeGooyer will be presenting on Thursday, November 10th about their deployment experience in Microsoft IT with Configuration Manager 2012. They've gotten beyond 150,000 clients on Configuration Manager 2012 - over half of the 280,000...