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Service Management Automation and SharePoint - #MVP

Posted 12 days ago

by Christian Booth - ChBooth
- 1 Comment
Goal: End to End Service Delivery Ryan Andorfer, a System Center: Cloud and Datacenter MVP, and I have been talking about experiences in automation and where we can provide more practical uses than the typical high-level demonstration or complex scalability...
2014 and the year of the #LyncUp

Posted 13 days ago

by Christian Booth - ChBooth
- 3 Comments
Last year we started a Service Manager #LyncUp , a monthly “Lync” call where community members could communicate and network in an open forum. The idea was to eliminate predetermined speakers and agendas, with a goal of creating a location...
System Center Universe: US & Simulcast

Posted 18 days ago

by Christian Booth - ChBooth
- 1 Comment
The third annual System Center Universe is schedule for January 30th, 2014. SCU is designed to be a community driven event bring together the best-of-the-best presenters in System Center with the user group communities around the world. There are more...
#MVA Course â€“ ITIL for IT Pros

Posted 1 month ago

by Christian Booth - ChBooth
- 2 Comments
Nathan Lasnoski a System Center: Cloud and Datacenter MVP recently worked with our Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) on developing a course on ITIL for IT Pros. This course provides an overview of the ITIL framework, service design, strategy, and more....
Update Rollup 5 for System Center Advisor is available

Posted 2 months ago

by J.C. Hornbeck
Microsoft has released the on-premises client Update Rollup 5 for Microsoft System Center Advisor. This update is dated November 12, 2013. The article linked below describes the following information about the update: The issues that the update fixes...
Join our ITPro Customer Panel and help shape future Microsoft Virtualization, Cloud, and Datacenter Management Products

Posted 2 months ago

by J.C. Hornbeck
- 1 Comment
Microsoft Windows Server and Systems Center Customer Research team is looking for ITPros to participate on an IT Pro panel. As a member of the panel, you will have the opportunity to provide vision and feedback to the Cloud and Data Center Management...
New in Software Assurance: Problem Resolution Support Web

Posted 2 months ago

by J.C. Hornbeck
Hi everyone, this is Siddharth Jha from the DPM team and I wanted to bring a product support related update to your attention. Microsoft has added a new type of support incident that has an email-only support option. We offer this as a part of our paid...
System Center User Group: Netherlands â€“ Update & Announcement

Posted 2 months ago

by Christian Booth - ChBooth
Greatness of a small country: Client, Data, and Cloud Management Today the System Center User Group Netherlands is proud to announce their new website with a wink to the past Dutch Clouds (painted by Dutch famous painters 1400-1600 century) and future...
Service Manager 2012 R2 â€“ Fixes included

Posted 2 months ago

by Christian Booth - ChBooth
Thomas Ellermann posted a great breakdown on the updates in R2 for Service Manager 2012. The focus in R2 for Service Manager was to tackle some of the critical customer and MVP collected bugs. Service Managers R2 release saw no major performance improvements...
Some thoughts about System Center 2012 R2

Posted 2 months ago

by J.C. Hornbeck
As Iâ€™m sure everyone is aware, last week we released System Center 2012 R2. With this new release, I thought it would be a good idea to call attention to a great article written by Steve Bucci, one of our top Senior Support Escalation Engineers here on...
Announcing the General Availability of System Center 2012 R2: Management Delivered

Posted 3 months ago

by Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team
The Cloud OS vision combines Microsoft knowledge and experiences with today’s trends and technology innovations to deliver a modern platform of products and services that helps organizations transform their current server environment into a highly...
Cloud OS Community Relay (UK)

Posted 3 months ago

by Christian Booth - ChBooth
Join Microsoft and a panel of MVP speakers at the Cloud OS Relay , to learn about the Cloud OS and how this technology suite from Microsoft can transform your business. Speakers such as Gordon McKenna, David Allen, Damian Flynn, and Simon Skinner and...
System Center Community/MVP Update

Posted 4 months ago

by Travis Wright (Cireson)
As many of you have probably seen today, I have announced my resignation from Microsoft to go to a System Center partner company. Friday will be my last official day at Microsoft, but I donâ€™t plan on changing my personal level of commitment to the...
Better Together - The New Windows Server 2012 R2 Innovations â€“ Download Now

Posted 5 months ago

by Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team
There are quite a few products that make up the Microsoft Cloud OS vision. Windows Server 2012 R2 is in preview right now and ready for your evaluation . We also have a strong management platform that make up the System Center family of products. They...
System Center 2012 R2 Available October 18th

Posted 5 months ago

by Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team
In important news today, we are extremely excited that on October 18 th , eligible customers will able to download Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, and use the latest update to Windows Intune. This is the same day that Windows 8.1 will be...
New System Center Courses on Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA)!

Posted 5 months ago

by Travis Wright (Cireson)
Hopefully everybody has been reading and enjoying the â€œWhatâ€™s New in 2012 R2?â€ series from our VP Brad Anderson. If you havenâ€™t been following along, check it out! http://blogs.technet.com/b/in_the_cloud/archive/tags/what_2700_s...
How to Create a Basic Plan Using the Service Administration Portal

Posted 5 months ago

by Ranganathan Srikanth
- 2 Comments
This post is a part of the nine-part “ What’s New in Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2 ” series that is featured on Brad Anderson’s In the Cloud blog. Today’s blog post covers Service Administration and how it applies...
How to Integrate Your Billing System with the Usage Metering System

Posted 5 months ago

by Ranganathan Srikanth
- 7 Comments
This post is a part of the nine-part “ What’s New in Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2 ” series that is featured on Brad Anderson’s In the Cloud blog. Today’s blog post covers Service Provider experiences in enabling...
Creating Usage Analytics Reports using Excel

Posted 5 months ago

by Ranganathan Srikanth
This post is a part of the nine-part “ What’s New in Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2 ” series that is featured on Brad Anderson’s In the Cloud blog. Today’s blog post covers Service Administration and how it applies...
Using Server Inventory Reports to Help Stay Compliant with Service Provider Licensing Agreement (SPLA)

Posted 5 months ago

by Ranganathan Srikanth
This post is a part of the nine-part “ What’s New in Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2 ” series that is featured on Brad Anderson’s In the Cloud blog. Today’s blog post covers Service Administration and how it applies...
Enabling Management of Open Source Software in System Center Using Standards

Posted 6 months ago

by Kris Bash
This post is a part of the nine-part “ What’s New in Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2 ” series that is featured on Brad Anderson’s In the Cloud blog. Today’s blog post covers standards-based management of open source...
Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 is now available

Posted 6 months ago

by J.C. Hornbeck
Update Rollup 3 (UR3) for System Center 2012 SP1 has been released and is now available for download. This update rollup contains fixes for System Center App Controller, Data Protection Manager, Operations Manager, Virtual Machine Manager and more. You...
Whatâ€™s New in System Center 2012 R2? Catch the In the Cloud Blog Series!

Posted 6 months ago

by Travis Wright (Cireson)
Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President for Windows Server and System Center, continued his blog series introducing Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2 today with the second blog post in the nine part series. You can follow the entire...
People-Centric IT with the System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview

Posted 7 months ago

by Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team
Hello from the System Center team and all of you participating in TechEd Europe 2013. We wanted to take this opportunity to provide more technical details on System Center 2012 R2, Intune and Windows Server 2012 R2 so you’ll see some new blog posts...
Build, save and print your own custom book of TechNet Library articles

Posted 7 months ago

by J.C. Hornbeck
- 3 Comments
Everyone knows there is a lot of great information in the TechNet Library, but what if there was a way to save and organize a custom set of articles with only the information you really want? Or maybe you do a lot of work offsite where you may not have...

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System Center Blog

Service Management Automation and SharePoint - #MVP

2014 and the year of the #LyncUp

System Center Universe: US & Simulcast

#MVA Course â€“ ITIL for IT Pros

Update Rollup 5 for System Center Advisor is available

Join our ITPro Customer Panel and help shape future Microsoft Virtualization, Cloud, and Datacenter Management Products

New in Software Assurance: Problem Resolution Support Web

System Center User Group: Netherlands â€“ Update & Announcement

Service Manager 2012 R2 â€“ Fixes included

Some thoughts about System Center 2012 R2

Announcing the General Availability of System Center 2012 R2: Management Delivered

Cloud OS Community Relay (UK)

System Center Community/MVP Update

Better Together - The New Windows Server 2012 R2 Innovations â€“ Download Now

System Center 2012 R2 Available October 18th

New System Center Courses on Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA)!

How to Create a Basic Plan Using the Service Administration Portal

How to Integrate Your Billing System with the Usage Metering System

Creating Usage Analytics Reports using Excel

Using Server Inventory Reports to Help Stay Compliant with Service Provider Licensing Agreement (SPLA)

Enabling Management of Open Source Software in System Center Using Standards

Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 is now available

Whatâ€™s New in System Center 2012 R2? Catch the In the Cloud Blog Series!

People-Centric IT with the System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview

Build, save and print your own custom book of TechNet Library articles