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Check out Adam Hall's blog post to learn more about Application deployment models in a Private Cloud. Read Adam's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog. http://bit.ly/vOqRxX ...read more

Check out Adam Hall's blog post to learn how to manage and monitor Windows Azure applications with System Center 2012. Read Adam's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog. http://bit.ly/vkyTnT ...read more

Check out Adam Hall's blog post, Senior Technical Product Manager for System Center, where he introduces App Controller 2012, a new member of the System Center family. Read Adam's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog . ...read more

Hi everyone On Tuesday, October 4th Technical Evangelists Symon Perriman and Rick Claus are hosting an online conference on Virtualization Career Training with Microsoft Learning.  This half day virtual event (8am – 11am PST) will offer a Level 100 ...read more

Hi everyone When Operations Manager 2007 was first released, a high amount of knowledge was required to successfully create your own management packs.  We started to make this easier with documentation for developers on MSDN, and we heard clear feedback ...read more

Hi everyone Following on from our article on how to integrate with TFS , we have now released a community IP onto Codeplex for TFS! The TFS IP was developed by Zhenhua Yao who works in our Orchestrator Engineering team, and he has provided an excellent ...read more

Hi everyone One of the outcomes we look for in the running of the Evaluation Programs is the emergence of leaders in the community.  We encourage and reward the CEP participants for their efforts in helping us build the communities around the System ...read more

Hi everyone Well, it seems like only yesterday that we were starting the Orchestrator 2012 Beta Community Evaluation Program , and here we are now heading to the final meeting! If you have been part of the Program, we thank you for the engagement and ...read more

Hi everyone The Operations Manager 2012 Beta Community Evaluation Program ( CEP ) kicks off next week! Throughout the CEP, you will be be taken on a guided tour of the Operations Manager 2012 Beta, with presentations from the Product Group and guidance ...read more

Michael Guthrie, who is on our Operations Manager engineering team (and incidentally the guy who created my 2012 Beta Application Performance Management demo environment that I use) has posted a great article over on the Operations Manager Blog site. ...read more

Hi everyone The System Center Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 provides an end to end monitoring solution for Dynamics AX 2012 has been released ! The Management pack automatically discovers the entire AX environment such as the databases ...read more

Hi everyone The Community Evaluation Program (CEP) for Operations Manager 2012 Beta will be kicking off very soon! The CEP is designed to guide our customers and partners through an evaluation of the product and highlight key features and capabilities ...read more

Hi everyone At WPC this week we showed off System Center App Controller for the first time. You can view the keynote that Sataya delivered here which included Ryan doing the App Controller demo. To give you a further glimpse into App Controller ...read more

Hi everyone We have posted 2 new Management Packs for System Center Operations Manager in the Download Center.  You can download these and read more using the links below, and they will also be in the Catalog and PinPoint shortly. System Center Monitoring ...read more

Hi Everyone We have published an article on the Orchestrator Blog that contains a SQL query you can run against your Opalis database that will identify any activities that you are currently using that have changed in Orchestrator. We hope your Orchestrator ...read more

One of our internal teams who are doing a lot with Opalis internally here at Microsoft ran and recorded a webcast, and this recording is now available for viewing and download. I want to thank the MPSD team for doing this!  They have showcased their ...read more

Today we are very excited to announce the availability of two updated Integration Pack (IP) Betas for System Center Orchestrator. We have published the updated IPs for IBM Netcool and VMware vSphere which are available for immediate download by clicking ...read more

Hi everyone The Orchestrator 2012 Beta Community Evaluation Program (CEP) has been building steadily over the last few weeks, and we are now well over 500 participants!  We have the foundations for a very strong technical community here, and it has ...read more

A common question we get is “Do you have an Integration Pack for <insert a product/solution here>?” Charles even wrote a blog post on this back in the Opalis days! I wanted to ensure that everyone understood the powerful activities that come Out ...read more

Well the Orchestrator CEP is about to ramp up in a big way, we’ve had the introduction meeting and set the scene and the first product team meeting is next week !  You still have time to sign up and be part of the program … we have over 500 other ...read more

Following the Orchestrator 2012 Beta announcement and the previously posted What to Expect in the Beta below is a list of articles that will answer the majority of the questions that you will ask . We will be creating and posting a lot of documentation ...read more

We have had a lot of requests for a Team Foundation Server Integration Pack, and the team has been working on, testing and using one internally. Zhenhua Yao who works in our Orchestrator Engineering team has written up a post describing how we did this ...read more

Hi everyone Get a virtual machine ready and crank up your Hypervisor because you are going to want to kick the tires on the System Center Orchestrator Beta! We have built upon the best features of Opalis and made some significant improvements to ...read more

Hi everyone This week we will be releasing the System Center Orchestrator BETA!  The team are locking down the build so keep an eye out for the announcement real soon . And on Thursday we will start the Orchestrator Beta Evaluation Program so make ...read more

Hi everyone We have published two new articles that discuss how to evaluate the Reach and Scale of Opalis.  These articles and associated Runbooks were created and tested in Opalis, and they will equally apply to the Orchestrator Beta. Jim Britt ...read more