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Introduction to Service Manager 2012 Service Catalog - Part 1
Greetings Service Manager fans! I’m really excited to blog about some of the cool new...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 11/04/2011
System Center Sweeps Redmond Mag Readers Choice Awards
Redmond Magazine has unveiled the winners of its annual Redmond Readers Choice Awards. We are proud...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 11/03/2011
Key Concepts of User Centric Application Delivery in Configuration Manager 2012: Part 2
We discussed how applications are different in Part 1, so now we’ll move on to how application...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 11/02/2011
Key Concepts of User Centric Application Delivery in Configuration Manager 2012: Part 1
At its core, our highest-level definition of user-centric management is: The centralized policies...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 11/01/2011
Windows Server 8 Heterogeneous Storage Support
Whether you’re talking about closet space in your house or the capacity of your datacenter,...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/31/2011
App Controller – Enabling Application Self Service
As announced on the Server and Cloud Platform Blog, System Center App Controller 2012 Beta is now...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/28/2011
Announcing Private Cloud Community Evaluation Program
Post by Garth Fort, General Manager of the Management and Security Product Management Team: Cloud...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/27/2011
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Release Candidate is Here!
Hi All, We are extremely excited to announce the availability of the release candidates for System...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/27/2011
Announcing New System Center 2012 Pre-Releases: Delivering Self-Service Application Management with the Microsoft Private Cloud
Before I was a software product manager, I led line-of-business application engineering teams, both...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/27/2011
Configuration Manager 2012 Will Help You Modernize Application Delivery in Your Organization
I am a Seattleite. Born and raised in the beautiful, but sometimes very rainy Pacific Northwest....
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/25/2011
User Centric App Deployment Part 2: User/Device Affinity
In its simplest form, the User/Device Affinity feature in ConfigMgr 2012 is just about saying, "this...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/19/2011
Live from VMworld Europe!
Click here to see what Edwin Yuen has to say about the realities of Private Cloud Economics and why...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/18/2011
Windows Server 8: Driven by the Voice of the Customer and Partner
Most people have heard of the campaign where customers say, “Windows 7 was my idea.”...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/18/2011
User Centric App Deployment Part 1: Thinking User First
Author’s Note - Special thanks to Craig Morris at Microsoft who really was the "Usurper of...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/17/2011
HP and Microsoft Deliver a Turnkey Path to Cloud Computing
HP VirtualSystem for Microsoft Available Today! In January 2010, we announced an extended...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/17/2011
Windows Server 8: Standards-Based Storage Management
Windows Server 8 is a cloud optimized OS. You’ve probably heard that phrase or similar...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/14/2011
SCM makes configuration management for both computers and your private cloud a snap!
Version 2 of the Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM 2) is now available for download....
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/13/2011
Windows Server 8 Hyper-V Overview
Last month at the BUILD Conference we introduced Windows Server 8 and began discussing how it will...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/11/2011
Announcing the Microsoft Cloud Assessment Tool For Partners
Changing the sales conversation with customers Microsoft is changing the conversation with customers...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/06/2011
Let System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Help You Enable Consumerization of IT
I am writing this blog on a slate device from my favorite coffee shop in Seattle. And I don't just...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/05/2011
System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Blog Series Kick-Off
Hi Folks, As you may know, the upcoming release of System Center Configuration Manager 2012...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 10/04/2011
A Warm Reception for "Windows Server 8"
The engineering teams that have been working so hard on the next version of Windows Server, code...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 09/26/2011
Storage and Continuous Availability Enhancements in Windows Server 8
Greetings from the Storage Developer Conference, where I had the opportunity to introduce attendees...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 09/20/2011
Microsoft and Dell – helping customers start the journey to Private Cloud
By Ed Anderson, Microsoft Today Dell offers vStart 50m for Hyper-V In April Dell and Microsoft...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 09/20/2011
Windows Server 8: An Introduction
Today at the Microsoft BUILD conference I had the pleasure of introducing the developer preview of...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 09/09/2011
Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Release Candidate Available Today
I am very excited to announce the Release Candidate of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 09/08/2011
System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 Beta released!
Today, we’re happy to announce the beta release of Data Protection Manager 2012, with the...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 09/01/2011
Path to the Private Cloud Contest Update: Not too late to win an Xbox Bundle!
Contest update:This week we kicked off the “Microsoft Path to the Private Cloud”...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 09/01/2011
Microsoft Path to the Private Cloud Contest: Day 2, Question 3
Yesterday we kicked off the “Microsoft Path to the Private Cloud” Contest, read official...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 08/31/2011
Microsoft Path to the Private Cloud Contest: Day 2, Question 2
Yesterday we kicked off the “Microsoft Path to the Private Cloud” Contest, read official...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 08/31/2011
Microsoft Path to the Private Cloud: Day 2, Question 1
Yesterday we kicked off the “Microsoft Path to the Private Cloud” Contest, read official...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 08/31/2011
We have our winners for the Microsoft Path to the Private Cloud Contest!
And we have our two Xbox Kinect bundle winners... drum roll please... The winner for the Tuesday...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 08/30/2011
Microsoft Path to the Private Cloud Contest: Question #3
Last week we announced the “Microsoft Path to the Private Cloud” contest and rules. This...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 08/30/2011
Delivering business value with an app-centric approach to Private Cloud
Hear more from Edwin Yuen, Director of Cloud and Virtualization Strategy, about Microsoft's approach...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 08/30/2011
Microsoft Path to the Private Cloud Contest: Question 2
Last week we announced the “Microsoft Path to the Private Cloud”” contest and...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 08/30/2011
Microsoft Path to the Private Cloud Contest: Question #1
Last week we announced the “Microsoft Path to the Private Cloud” contest and rules. This...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 08/30/2011
Customers Reap Benefits from Microsoft’s Comprehensive Cloud Approach
Take a look at Brad Anderson’s, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, perspective on...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 08/26/2011
Check out the New Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Website!
We’re pleased to announce the launch of the new Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform website...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 08/25/2011
The Microsoft Path to the Private Cloud Contest - Begins August 30th, 2011!
See official contest rules at this link Your opportunity to win one of two Xbox 360 4GB Kinect Game...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 08/25/2011
System Center Operations Manager 2012 Beta is here!
Like most companies today, you rely on your IT infrastructure to keep your business running. You...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 07/19/2011
“Windows Server 8” sneak preview
If you’re in IT you are likely pulled between an almost infinite need for more computing power...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 07/18/2011
Simplify your customers’ cloud migration planning with MAP 6.0
The next version of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit—version 6.0— is...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 07/15/2011
Take your business to the next level with new partner programs and incentives for private cloud computing
There’s a lot of hype around the evolution of virtualization and management, and the emergence...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 07/13/2011
Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and the first server opportunity, a story about ecosystems.
“With Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, we can deliver inspection results...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 07/13/2011
Microsoft Delivers New Cloud Tools and Solutions at the Worldwide Partner Conference
Cloud computing is as big a transformation, and opportunity, as the technology industry has ever...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 07/12/2011
Make the most of your WPC experience
The 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) is kicking off today, and with over 12,000...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 07/11/2011
SAP Eases Deployment Time, Cost by 95 Percent; Endorses Hyper-V “Without Reservation”
Enterprises and “cloud” providers that run SAP want the most powerful and effective ways...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 07/11/2011
Headed to WPC? Don't miss this great offer!
Everyone is talking about the Cloud. At next week’s Worldwide Partner Conference, you and...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 07/08/2011
Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials now available in all channels; get it today!
Today we are happy to share the news that three months after its release to manufacturing and twelve...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 07/08/2011
Now Available: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 Beta 1
The next version of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) —version 2012— is now...
Author: MSDNBlogAdmin Date: 07/07/2011