Here is an interesting post by Shaun Ericson of Cireson on why System Center Service Manager has yet to be placed on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for “IT Service Support Management Tools”. Full post here: http://www.cireson.com/business/why-is-microsoft-system-center-service-manager-scsm-not-on-the-gartner-magic-quadrant/
Cireson Asset Management: New Feature Highlights After recently releasing the newest version of the Asset Management app for Microsoft System Center (Features Press Release), this post goes a little more in depth to explain some of the amazing features included in this latest release. Always striving to make life easier and more productive for those … Read more
Microsoft recently update the Integration points for System Center map for Service Pack 1. The map is a diagram that illustrates the integration points between all the technologies in the System Center stack. Here is what the map looks like: This can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36429
This is an exciting week for System Center. First there is a new tool released by Microsoft called System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Analyzer (SCCA). The System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Analyzer works these System Center products in the stack: Operations Manager Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) Service Manager Orchestrator (plus Service Provider Foundation) Configuration … Read more
I am happy to announce that today I passed the final exam to obtain the MCSE: Private Cloud certification. I was able to upgrade from the MCITP: Server Administrator requiring me to only pass two exams. Out of the 70-246 Private Cloud Monitoring and Operations with System Center 2012 and 70-247 Private Cloud Configuration … Read more
**Update** Here is the recording of the webinar: This week I will be giving my first webinar. It will be based around Service Offerings in System Center Service Manager 2012. I will be co-presenting with a colleague from RBA. You can register here: REGISTER Here are the official details:
I am happy to announce the Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager Cookbook has been published. I had the opportunity to be a technical reviewer on this book. It will be a good resource for any Service manager admins out there. Here is the cover and the link to purchase it: http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-System-Service-Manager-Cookbook/dp/1849686947
I recently ran across a forum post with a user asking how to find out who Service Manager was registered to and what version of service manager was installed. To do this open up the Service manager console and click on help. This will give you a build version number as seen in the … Read more
System Center 2012 Update Rollup 3 (UR3) Released is available. There are updates to SCOM, SCSM, and SCDPM. There are allot of updates for SCDPM that fix issues with protecting SharePoint. So if you are protecting SharePoint you will want to apply this rollup soon. Here are the issues it fixes: Update Rollup 3 for … Read more
System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Beta was announced today. There are some exciting updates to System Center 2012. Here are some of the enhancements I have been waiting for: Data Protection Manager Improved backup performance of Hyper-V over CSV 2.0 Protection for Hyper-V over remote SMB share Protection for Windows Server 2012 de-duplicated … Read more