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Software Defined Networking – Hybrid Clouds using Hyper-V Network Virtualization (Part 1)
Hello Readers and Viewers! By now, you have likely seen Brad Anderson’s Blog Post (Networking...
Author: Nader Benmessaoud [MSFT] Date: 11/20/2013
Automation–Automating Hybrid Clouds with Windows Azure and PowerShell (Part 2): Public Cloud Environment Provisioning PowerShell Examples
Hello Again! Time for Part 2 of the Automating Hybrid Clouds with Windows Azure and PowerShell blog...
Author: Charles Joy [MSFT] Date: 11/19/2013
Automation–Automating Hybrid Clouds with Windows Azure and PowerShell (Part 1): Introduction and Table of Contents
Hello Readers and Viewers! By now, you have likely seen Brad Anderson’s Blog Post (VMware...
Author: Charles Joy [MSFT] Date: 11/14/2013
Troubleshooting Windows Azure Pack, SPF & VMM
Troubleshooting Windows Azure Pack, SPF & VMM As a follow-up from the troubleshooting...
Author: Anders Ravnholt [MSFT] Date: 11/08/2013
Automation–Track News–Building Clouds Blog TechNet Forum Live!
Hello Readers, Viewers and everyone with many questions! On behalf of the Automation Track, I would...
Author: Charles Joy [MSFT] Date: 11/06/2013
Introducing Lync Service Templates
If you have been following the teams blog series on Service Templates you may have already come to...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 11/06/2013
Troubleshooting Installation of Windows Azure Pack
The first blog post for troubleshooting WAP will logically be on installation challenges. Some of my...
Author: Anders Ravnholt [MSFT] Date: 11/06/2013
Troubleshooting Installation & Configuration of Windows Azure Pack – An Introduction
The Windows Azure Pack (WAP) is the new boy in town and has got quite a bit of attention over the...
Author: Anders Ravnholt [MSFT] Date: 11/05/2013
Automation–System Center Orchestrator Engineering Team Cross-Post–Using the Service Management Automation feature of Orchestrator in System Center 2012 R2
Hello again readers! Today we have for you, a simple cross-post to increase the awareness of...
Author: Charles Joy [MSFT] Date: 11/05/2013
Calling an Orchestrator Runbook from SMA – Part 1
Hello readers! In this blog post I would like to show you how you can call an Orchestrator Runbook...
Author: Tiander Turpijn [MSFT] Date: 11/01/2013
Automation–PowerShell Workflow Script Spotlight–Creation and Parameterization of Virtual Machine Manager Run As Accounts for “OnBehalfOf” Service Template Deployment
Hello Readers/Viewers! I know it is a bit back-to-back with these examples, but I wanted to continue...
Author: Charles Joy [MSFT] Date: 10/30/2013
Application Management - Virtual Hard Disk Requirements of Windows Azure Pack Gallery Items
Today we have a guest blogger. Stephen Baron is a Program Manager for System Center on the Virtual...
Author: Kurt Scherer [MSFT] Date: 10/25/2013
Application Management - Service Models Web Platform Installer Gallery
Today we have a guest blogger. Stephen Baron is a Program Manager for System Center on the Virtual...
Author: Kurt Scherer [MSFT] Date: 10/25/2013
Automation–PowerShell Workflow Script Spotlight–Deploying Virtual Machine Manager Service Templates-More Examples!
Hello, So I was having an #8minutediscussionwithCharlesJoy recently, and we thought it could...
Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 10/25/2013
Deployment-Minor PDT update 2.5.2508 now available
PDT 2.5.2508 is now available on the TechNet Gallery here. This release adds download locations for...
Author: Rob Willis (MSFT) Date: 10/24/2013
Automation–Service Management Automation–SMA Runbook Toolkit Spotlight–SMART for Runbook Import and Export
Hello Readers! Well, it has been a while since I’ve posted, but it has been for a very good...
Author: Jim Britt [MSFT] Date: 10/23/2013
SQL Server Self-Service Kit – Installation Instructions for the SMA Edition
This post covers installation information for the SQL Server Self-Service Kit (SQLSSK) v2.0, a.ka....
Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 10/23/2013
SQL Server Self-Service Kit – Updated for System Center 2012 R2 and SMA!
It’s been about a month since the first release of the SQL Server Self-Service Kit (SQLSSK), which...
Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 10/23/2013
Application Management – Clustering SQL Guest Instances in R2 – Part 2
In a previous post, I described how one might use Service Templates to leverage new features in...
Author: Kurt Scherer [MSFT] Date: 10/22/2013
Deployment–PDT update for System Center 2012 R2 now available
PDT has been updated to support the general availability release of System Center 2012 R2 and...
Author: Rob Willis (MSFT) Date: 10/17/2013
Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Solution for Enterprise IT Overview Video
If you’re been reading the papers, most of them will tell you that in the next few years,...
Author: Date: 10/17/2013
Exchange Server 2013 CU2 Service Templates - Setup and Best Practices
This blog post is part 3 of 3 in a series. This series of posts that detail how to deploy Exchange...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 10/16/2013
Exchange Server 2013 CU2 Service Templates - Prerequisites
This blog post is part 2 of 3 in a series. This series of posts details how to deploy Exchange 2013...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 10/16/2013
Exchange Server 2013 CU2 Service Templates for Virtual Machine Manager
Welcome to the latest blog post about System Center service templates! When we asked our field what...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 10/16/2013
Exchange Server 2013 CU2 Service Templates for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (Printer Friendly)
Welcome to the latest blog post about System Center service templates! When we asked our field what...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 10/16/2013
Installing & configuring Service Reporting for IaaS usage and metering
This is the last blog post in a series on how to enable usage and metering for IaaS using System...
Author: Anders Ravnholt [MSFT] Date: 10/11/2013
Document your Orchestrator Runbooks with the updated “Visio and Word Generator”!
Following a few customer enquiries, I am happy to post an update to the “Orchestrator Visio...
Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 10/03/2013
Automation–Orchestrator Integration Pack for PowerShell Script Execution–Version 1.2!
Hello Readers/Viewers! Remember back in January of this year when I published the...
Author: Charles Joy [MSFT] Date: 10/02/2013
Configuring SPF and Windows Azure Pack for IaaS usage and metering
After configuring VMM and OM for IaaS usage and metering in the previous blog post (here) it’s now...
Author: Anders Ravnholt [MSFT] Date: 10/01/2013
free eBook: Microsoft System Center – Designing Orchestrator Runbooks
Hi, I’m Andreas Rynes, Lead Architect on the Datacenter Program Team, Microsoft Services HQ...
Author: Andreas Rynes [MSFT] Date: 09/28/2013
Configuring VMM and OM for IaaS usage and metering
In the previous blog post (here) I explained how usage and reporting works in Windows Azure Pack and...
Author: Anders Ravnholt [MSFT] Date: 09/27/2013
Application Management - Service Template – Active Directory (STAD)
For those of you using some of the Application Management Track Service Templates in our blogs...
Author: Shawn Gibbs [MSFT] Date: 09/26/2013
Windows Azure Hybrid Cloud Book by Danny Garber, Jamal Malik and Adam Fazio
What is hybrid cloud or hybrid IT? Hybrid cloud is when you connect resources hosted on different...
Author: Date: 09/24/2013
Oracle Self Service Kit : See it in action in this video
As a follow up to this series of posts introducing the Oracle Self Service Kit, here is a video...
Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 09/23/2013
Mobile Application Delivery with System Center Configuration Manager and Windows Intune - Part 1 of 5
Hi again, it’s Jeff Buller. I am a Program Manager on the Windows Server and System Center CAT...
Author: Jeff Buller [MSFT] Date: 09/19/2013
Oracle Self-Service Kit : Provisioning Oracle Database components using the System Center stack
With the recent announcements from Oracle and Microsoft, many of you are getting in touch with us to...
Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 09/18/2013
Oracle-Self Service Kit : Gimme the details (part 2)
This is the second of two posts getting into more details about the “Oracle Server...
Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 09/18/2013
Oracle Self-Service Kit : Gimme the details (part 1)
This is the first of two posts getting into more details about the “Oracle Server Self-Service Kit”....
Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 09/18/2013
Deployment–Minor PDT update 2.5.2502 available
This release corrects a bug in the Windows Azure Pack configuration, and updates the download for...
Author: Rob Willis (MSFT) Date: 09/14/2013
Automation–MVP Example Solution Spotlight–Orchestrator Integration with Office365 and SharePoint 2013
Hello Readers/Viewers! Today’s post is just a quick cross-post and spotlight on an example...
Author: Charles Joy [MSFT] Date: 09/13/2013
Application Management - Clustering SQL Guest Instances in R2
With the preview release of System Center 2012 R2, there are a few additions to VMM that make...
Author: Kurt Scherer [MSFT] Date: 09/07/2013
SQL Server Self-Service Kit : Gimme the details (part 2)
This is the second of two posts getting into more details about the “SQL Server Self-Service...
Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 09/06/2013
SQL Server Self-Service Kit : Gimme the details (part 1)
This is the first of two posts getting into more details about the “SQL Server Self-Service Kit”. It...
Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 09/06/2013
SQL Server Self-Service Kit : Provisioning SQL Server as a Service with the System Center stack
“Can I use System Center to provision SQL Server components?”… “Can I...
Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 09/06/2013
Evaluating Windows Server and System Center on a Laptop (or two, or three) – Failover Clustering (part 2)
How to build a Failover Cluster on a couple of laptops This is a continuation of our playing with...
Author: Dave Northey [MSFT] Date: 09/04/2013
Deployment–Timezones other than Pacific Standard Time with PDT VMCreator
By default, Windows uses Pacific Standard Time during setup unless another timezone is specified....
Author: Rob Willis (MSFT) Date: 08/30/2013
Deployment–Non-default network identifier and PDT VMCreator
If you’ve attempted a full deployment of System Center 2012 - Service Manager using PDT...
Author: Rob Willis (MSFT) Date: 08/30/2013
Deployment-Using SQL named instance static ports with PDT
By default, a SQL named instance uses a dynamic port. However, some System Center components cannot...
Author: Rob Willis (MSFT) Date: 08/30/2013
Deployment–Using PDT for end-to-end deployment including Active Directory
At the public conferences this year – MMS 2013, TechEd 2013 North America, and TechEd 2013...
Author: Rob Willis (MSFT) Date: 08/30/2013