System Center Community: How to Participate
Overview
This page describes how to get involved in the System Center community by providing an index of community resources and key community contributors to follow. This page is intended to be a living index meaning that your contributions to the page to add new content, update content, or remove outdated content are encouraged. It is hard to keep track of the constantly changing shape of the community so it is essential that everyone contributes to keeping this index up to date.
Engineering Team Blogs, Forums, Library, Gallery, Wiki, and Survival Guides
| Component | Blog | Forums | Library | Gallery | Wiki | Survival Guide | Learn |
| Operations Manager | Blog | Forums | Library | Gallery | Wiki | Survival Guide | Learn |
| Service Manager | Blog | Forums | Library | Gallery | Wiki | Survival Guide | Learn |
| Virtual Machine Manager | Blog | Forums | Library | Gallery | Wiki | Survival Guide | Learn |
| Orchestrator (fka Opalis) | Blog | Forums | Library | Gallery | Wiki | Survival Guide | Learn |
| Data Protection Manager | Blog | Forums | Library | Gallery | Wiki | Survival Guide | Learn |
| App Controller | Forums | Library | Survival Guide | Learn | |||
| Configuration Manager | Blog | Forums (current branch) | Library (current branch) | Gallery | Wiki | Survival Guide | Learn (current branch) |
If you want to stay current on all new System Center content and announcements, follow the blogs above either via RSS, Facebook or Twitter.
If you want to ask or answer a support questions, visit the forums.
The Microsoft Knowledge Base
Looking for an official KB article documenting a known issue, or maybe a hotfix or update rollup package? This is where you want to go. You can search the Microsoft Knowledge Base as well as other Microsoft properties using the link below.
http://support.microsoft.com/search/
The TechNet Library
This is where you’ll find our official product documentation and release notes. If you’re looking for a deployment guide or instructions on how to configure a particular aspect of a System Center product this is where you want to look. The start page is linked below and from there you can find documentation for all specific System Center products.
The TechNet Library http://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh546785
Facebook and Twitter
Every time the System Center team publishes a new piece of content it gets mentioned on the blogs, on Facebook and on Twitter. You can find the System Center team on Facebook and Twitter using the links below.
MS Engineering and Support Team
| Type | URL |
| Twitter Handle | @MS_SystemCenter |
| Facebook fan page | https://www.facebook.com/pages/Microsoft-System-Center-Support/111513322193410 |
| ConfigMgr and Intune doc team Twitter | @ConfigMgriX |
| ConfigMgr and Intune doc team Facebook page | https://www.facebook.com/ConfigMgriX/ |
Microsoft Employees
| Name | Handle |
| Travis Wright | @radtravis |
| Stefan Stranger | @sstranger |
| Santos Martinez | @ConfigNinja |
| Daniele Muscetta | @dani3l3 |
| Christian Booth | @ChBooth |
| Brad Anderson | @InTheCloudMSFT |
MVP
System Center Cloud and Data Center Management MVPs
| Name | Handle |
| Maarten Goet | @maarten_goet |
| Kristian Nese | @kristiannese |
| James van den Berg | @jamesvandenberg |
| Marcus Oh | @marcuscoh |
| Torsten Meringer | @tmeringer |
| Bob Cornelissen | @bob_cornelissen |
| Islam Gomaa | @islamgomaa |
| Cleber Marques | @cleberfmarques and @systemcenterbr |
| Raymond Chou | @exotrinity |
| Damian Flynn | @damian_flynn |
| Kevin Greene | @kgreeneit |
| John Joyner | @john_joyner |
| Patrik Sundqvist | @gridpatrik |
| Marcel Zehner | @scsmfaq |
| Chris Ross | @scsmus |
| Harri Puupponen | @harripuupponen |
| Christopher Keyaert | @keyaertc |
| Pete Zerger | @pzerger |
| Marnix Wolf | @marnixwolf |
| Oskar Landman | @oskarlandman |
| Stefan Koell | @stefankoell |
| Simon Skinner | @cymonskinner |
| Alex Verkinderen | @alexverkinderen |
| Mike Resseler | @MikeResseler |
| Mohamed Fawzi | @vFawzi |
| Robert Hedblom | @RobertandDPM |
| Matt Marlor | @MattMOfDoom |
| Silvio Di Benedetto | @s_net |
| Rob Ford | @manxferdey |
| Cameron Fuller | @CFullerMVP |
| Nicolai Henriksen | @Nicolaitwitt |
| Steve Buchanan | @Buchatech |
| Rodney Buike | @Rbuike |
| Kamil Skalski | @KamilSkalski |
| Cliff Hobbs (ConfigMgr) | @cliffhobbs |
| Greg Ramsey | @ramseyg |
| Anil Erduran | @anil_erduran |
| Eric Berg | @ericberg_de |
Other MVPs
| Name | Handle |
| Patrick Lownds | @PatrickLownds |
| Robert Smit | @Clustermvp |
| Nathan Lasnoski | @nlasnoski |
| Aidan Finn | @joe_elway |
| Hans Vredevoort | @hvredevoort |
| Robert Marshall | @RobMVP |
Lists
System Center Cloud and Data Center Management MVPs
System Center Hashtags
| Name | Handle |
| System Center | #sysctr |
| System Center App Controller | #appcontroller |
| System Center Virtual Machine Manager | #scvmm |
| System Center Service Manager | #scsm |
| System Center Operations Manager | #scom |
| System Center Data Protection Manager | #scdpm |
| System Center Orchestrator | #scorc ( not #scorch!!) |
| System Center Advisor | #scadvisor |
| System Center Configuration Manager | #configmgr |
Blogs
MVP Blogs
Microsoft Employee Blogs
| Name | Handle |
| Artem Pronichkin | http://blogs.technet.com/b/vm/ |
| Anders Bengtsson | http://www.contoso.se |
| Brad Anderson | http://blogs.technet.com/b/in_the_cloud/ |
| Brian Wren | http://blogs.technet.com/b/mpauthor/ |
| Christopher Crammond | http://blogs.technet.com/b/random_happy_dev_thoughts/ |
| Kevin Holman | http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/ |
| Matt Goedtel | http://blogs.technet.com/b/mgoedtel/ |
| Marcin Jastrzebski | http://blogs.technet.com/marcin_jastrzebski |
| Kristopher Bash | http://operatingquadrant.com/ |
| Stefan Stranger | http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_stranger/ |
| Steve Rachui | http://blogs.msdn.com/b/steverac/ |
| Zhenhua Yao | http://blogs.msdn.com/b/yao |
| Antoni Hanus | http://blogs.technet.com/b/antoni/ |
| Neil Peterson | http://blogs.technet.com/b/neilp/ |
| Santos Martinez | http://blogs.technet.com/b/smarinez/ |
Other Community Blogs
System Center User Groups
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Microsoft System Center Administrators |
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Microsoft System Center Products Specialists |
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Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager |
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Microsoft System Center Operations Manager |
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Microsoft System Center Service Manager |
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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager |
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System Center Orchestrator Professionals |
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Microsoft System Center Service Manager |
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SCCM Professionals |
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System Center Community |
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System Center Virtual User Group |
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Data Protection Manager / DPM |
Online Communities