A 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 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 MOREWhile launching all the new beta and release candidate versions of the products in the System Center 2012 family, Microsoft slightly changed all the names of the products. Let’s see how the names are changed. Did we read also something about a release date? 😉
READ MOREToday (1st of November 2011) another Community Evaluation Program kicks off, this time the program will be about the Microsoft System Center 2012 Private Cloud. Members of this community will evaluate the pre-release versions of Microsoft System Center 2012 with guidance from the product team and through sharing of experiences and best practices among a community […]
READ MOREYesterday the System Center related recordings of TechEd North America were published on the System Center Team Blog Site. The sessions contain a lot of System Center information and content that was presented at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas this year. Since there is not going to be a TechEd conference in Europe […]
READ MOREAs part of the Community Evaluation Community the 9th live meeting about System Center Configuration Manager 2012 was scheduled for today. The main subject was Mobile Device Management in SCCM 2012. At this moment Microsoft has three major products for managing Mobile phones, Mobile Devices Management (MDM) 2008, SCCM 2007 and Exchange 2007/2010. The functionality […]
READ MORELast Friday the Exchange Connector for SCSM 2010 was finally released and is a welcome enhancement for System Center Service Manager SP1. With the Exchange Connector you are able to monitor an Exchange Server 2007/2010 mailbox where people from your company can send their new, or updated incidents to. The connector is used to monitor the […]
READ MOREWhen playing around with the System Center Service Manager 2010 Self Service Portal, I wanted to create more portals on the same server. The basic steps of creating a secondary portal are well documented in several blogs around the Internet. But when following the steps a couple of trivial parts are missing. In this blog […]
READ MOREToday Sean Christensen and Travis Wright held a very good session about “System Center Service Manager Implementation Tips and Tricks from the Field” covering several aspects like the virtualization of SCSM servers, licensing issues and some tools and enhancements which come available in SCSM resource kit next month. But the most important part of the […]
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