Marc Umeno's Blog : Change Management

Service Manager Test Drive Available Now

mumeno — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:06:08 GMT

I have exciting news to share!

We have a Service Manager Test Drive preview of Beta 2 available to try out now. It’s on hosted VMs, so all you need to do is log in with your Windows Live ID and start playing with it.

The VMs have all of the same sample data we used in our demonstrations at the Microsoft Management Summit. You will be able to evaluate the core Incident, Change, and Configuration Management features, as well as integration with Active Directory, System Center Configuration Manager and System Center Operations Manager. There is also some sample data for a few reports available in the Test Drive.

Please check it out and let us know what you think – you can post feedback and questions in the Service Manager TechNet forum.

System Center Service Manager Beta 1 is Released!

mumeno — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:29:22 GMT

System Center Service Manager Beta 1 has shipped!

You can download the Beta from Connect:

https://connect.microsoft.com/SelfNomination.aspx?ProgramID=2733&pageType=1&SiteID=446

System Center Service Manager Beta 1

mumeno — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:15:46 GMT

It’s been a while since I posted as we have been feverishly working on the Beta 1 for System Center Service Manager. Now that we are getting close to shipping Beta 1, I will start blogging again.

Beta 1 has a number of great features, including Incident Management (including automatic creation of incidents from SCCM Desired Configuration Management compliance errors), Change Management, Configuration Management/CMDB, and Connectors to Active Directory & System Center Configuration Manager.

We are very excited about sharing what we have been putting together – it’s coming soon!