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I’m now posting on the System Center team blog - http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/default.aspx
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Microsoft Management Summit was a week or so ago in Las Vegas – we had dozens of partners put out Press Releases detailing their integrations and extensions to the System Center platform. 1E www.1e.com 1E LOWERS THE COST ON MANAGING WINDOWS ENVIRONMENTS
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Finally the team got the Partner Solutions Guide to print. Here is a proof copy (right) next to the 2007 partner guide on the left. This will be printed and shipped to Las Vegas - in time for the Microsoft Management Summit. A big thanks to all
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When I started in this role – just over a year ago – there were around 25 partners in the Microsoft System Center Alliance. Most of those were founder members of the Alliance which was announced at TechEd/IT Forum in Barcelona in November 2007. The original
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There has been a lot of talk recently about ‘Green IT’ and how power management can safe significant money for an IT organisation. Just this last week there was and article in InfoWorld reporting that $2.8B per year is spent on keeping PCs powered on.
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I'm in Ottawa, ON, Canada - just about to visit with a small, really focused System Center partner Silect . Silect have a couple of great products focused on consulting and deployment teams as well as the IT Pro tasked with creating knowledge. Of real
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Here is a partner and customer facing whitepaper describing the benefits and market differentiators for System Center Configuration Management. Executive Summary This document is designed to provide an overview of the benefits and market differentiators
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I came to the realisation that I’d not blogged about technology for weeks on my personal site - and for months here on TechNet. The problem I’ve got is that most of the work with partners is still not released and is under NDA. That really
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Ying Li wrote a great article on installing SCCM on Windows Server 2008. Saved me a lot of time scrubbing my docs. You can read the blog post here with a follow up from Don Hite on updating to SCCM R2 here .
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Ok – after a long delay here is the first part of the article on installing a single server SCCM demo server. Collect your pieces first: Hardware A suitable server for Windows Server 2008. I’m installing Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition on a 32
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Apologies – this is taking longer than expected to get the content and videos together. Hopefully this week,
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Here’s an exclusive. A new series of partner readiness training is coming next month. Starting with a series of training webcasts and moving to a partner bootcamp across the globe – this set of training will assist development, integration and deployment
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I’m back in the rhythm of things after a week or so of pure ITIL v3. Today I’ve been looking at very different processes – the back office pieces that make up the System Center Alliance. I blogged earlier about the high level aims of the System Center
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Oh joy. I’ve been digging into the mapping between ITIL v3 and the new Microsoft Operations Framework v4. There are a lot of white papers from Microsoft: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc506049.aspx There is also a good MOF v4 overview from
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I’ve been out of the office all week taking training. One of my areas of specialty is ITIL – I’ve been in Brisbane, Australia taking the ITIL v3 Managers Bridge training and exam with The Art of Service . One of my future blog posts will most likely cover
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