I’ve been in denial about this for long enough: Cathy Moya, our much-loved and highly respected lead writer for “SMSv4” has left the building. She came back for the book signing party, but there’s a good reason why we haven’t seen her around for the last...

I’m sure you’re familiar with the MMS and Tech-Ed conferences, but are you in the know about the RSA Conference ? It has been described as “The most prestigious information security event of the year. It is the must-attend event for organizations that...

The Configuration Manager 2007 writing team has just published a second batch of quizzes to test your knowledge of Configuration Manager 2007. These quizzes are a great way to learn more about some of the features of the product. Each quiz contains 10...

I am pleased to announce the many ways in which your System Center writing teams are participating at the Microsoft Management Conference (MMS) 2008 this year, and how you can engage with us to talk about your content needs and requirements! The...

You might have seen from Steve’s previous blog entry that he, Jeff, and Doug will be at MMS 2008 and signing copies of the newly published System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Administrator’s Companion at the myITforum booth. That leaves a few author...

Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 RC is now available for download on the Connect site . This includes the accompanying documentation, which includes the following: Minor updates and corrections to the Configuration Manager 2007 documentation. Prerelease...

Although Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 includes a Network Access Protection (NAP) client out of the box, not so for Windows XP. Previously, you had to install a separate client (the Network Access Protection (NAP) Client for Windows XP ), which...

For you folks attending the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS 2008) this year, I wanted to remind you of the presence of the writing teams that support many of your products and the sessions that we are sponsoring. (See my post of 4/14/08 System Center...

On the subject of security, the Security Solution Accelerator team has recently released 12 Configuration Packs with their Security Compliance Management toolkit to help you assess security compliance using desired configuration management configuration...

My previous post encouraged you to try the security Configuration Packs with the beta Security Compliance Management toolkit , but warned you not to send feedback about them to us. We’ve also had enquiries from customers who have downloaded the released...