November, 2011

Redmond Magazine has unveiled the winners of its annual Redmond Readers Choice Awards. We are proud to announce that Microsoft System Center products made an impressive showing, taking home 18 awards. Read the full post on the Microsoft Server and...

Hello, As we do each month, we're providing advance notification on the release of four security bulletins, one Critical, two Important, and one Moderate, to address four CVEs in Windows. As usual, the bulletin release is scheduled for the second...

Hello, I’m Shane Brasher. I’d like to discuss the System State Restore Process, basically a walkthrough if you will. First however let’s discuss a high level view of what is done during the backup of a server system state. From a very high level, Data...

Take a look at Bill Anderson's blog post, Principal Program Manager Lead for System Center Configuration Manager, where he wraps up the two part blog series on the five key conceptual changes in ConfigMgr 2012 that will fundamentally change the way that...

Greetings, this is part 2 of a 5 part series on the Update Management feature in VMM 2012.  The first post in this series is located on the SCVMM Blog. In the Update Management feature for VMM 2012 synchronization of the Update Server with WU/MU...

Earlier today we released an updated version (found here ) of the Definition Update Automation Tool for Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Update Rollup 1. This document provides steps for how to use this tool. Tool Description With Forefront Endpoint...

The Documentation library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager has been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: October 1, 2011 at the top of the topic. There are no significant updates for the Configuration Manager 2007 documentation...

The release candidates for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection are now available on the Microsoft Download Center . In case you missed it, the release announcement describing the features of the release...

Hello, I’m Shane Brasher and I’m part of the Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager team. I’d like to discuss the process of performing a successful Bare Metal Restore (BMR) via Data Protection Manager 2010. So everything is running fine, but...

Here’s a heads up on another cool article I found over on the TechNet Wiki that was written by Microsoft’s own Yuri Diogenes. This one walks you through deploying Windows Server Updates Services (WSUS) 3 SP2 in a DMZ protected by Forefront TMG 2010 SP2...

A lot of people are new to the packaging process using the Server Application Virtualization Sequencer. As such, we’re providing two videos on how to sequence and deploy Pet Shop 4.0. These videos will give you a good idea on how to use the Server App...

Check out Bill Anderson's blog post, Principal Program Manager Lead for System Center Configuration Manager, where he kicks off a two part blog series that touches on the five key conceptual changes in ConfigMgr 2012 that will fundamentally change the...