This week the release candidate 2 version of the Configuration Manager Physical to Virtual (P2V) Migration Toolkit was released. The Configuration Manager P2V Migration Toolkit enables you to migrate your branch office site servers side by side without investing in new hardware. Read more about the P2V Migration Toolkit in my earlier blogs: Package Conversion […]
READ MOREThe Private Cloud is in combination with System Center 2012 is the main focus for Microsoft this year. To help the adoption of the System Center 2012 suite and of course the Private Cloud, Microsoft developed a two day free “Creating and Managing a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 Jump Start” course. During this […]
READ MOREYesterday was a big day for the System Center community with the release of System Center 2012 Release Candidate. Yersterday the Release Candidate 2 of the Package Conversion Manager for Configuration Manager 2012 RC2 was also released. The Package Conversion Toolkit will help you with the conversion of your classic software packages that you migrate […]
READ MOREAnother reason to go the Microsoft Management Summit 2012 in Las Vegas is that the Private Cloud beta exams go public at this event: Exam 70-246: Private Cloud Monitoring and Operations with System Center 2012 Exam 70-247: Private Cloud Configuration and Deployment with System Center 2012 Together with three (70-640, 70-642 and 70-643) core exams […]
READ MOREA couple of weeks ago I saw a tweet about that someone was playing with the RC2 version of Configuration Manager 2012. Since then no news about this version, until now! Today is during Transforming IT with Microsoft Private Cloud webcast System Center 2012 Release Candidate released. As part of this suite also System Center 2012 Configuration […]
READ MOREA new feature in Configuration Manager 2012 is the ability to simulate a deployment of an application to a user or device. This feature helps you to test the deployment of an application without actually installing or uninstalling the application.
READ MOREToday Microsoft has released the new licensing model for the System Center 2012 suite. (thanks to @Syliance) A couple of highlights are the following. Regarding Server Management Licencing there are only two different licences available: Datacenter (Maximizes cloud capacity with unlimited Operating System Environments (OSEs) for high density private clouds) Standard (For lightly or non-virtualized […]
READ MOREIt looks like that the Community Evaluation Program for Configuration Manager 2012 comes to an end after running since October the 6th of 2010. 🙁 In the past 1,5 years, members of the Configuration Manager 2012 Product team presented almost 30 sessions about the early versions of Configuration Manager 2012, the P2V migration toolkit and […]
READ MOREThe first Community Evaluation Program session of 2012 is scheduled for the 18th of January (9:00 AM Pacific). This session will be about the deployment of Configuration Manager 2012 by Microsoft IT, the largest deployment of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager until now.
READ MOREIn my last blog I configured the Exchange Server Connector in Configuration Manager 2012 RC1 to connect to an Hosted Exchange 2010 environment in Office 365. Today I want to show some interaction of Configuration Manager 2012 with Office 365 Exchange Online.
READ MOREIn an earlier blog I configured the Exchange Server Connector in Configuration Manager 2012 Beta2 to use it with on premise environment of Exchange 2010. Today let’s have a look at if the Exchange Server Connector in Configuration Manager 2012 RC1 also can handle Exchange 2010 in Office 365. Since I don’t have an enterprise […]
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