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Jan

Configuration Manager 2012 RC2 available

Categories: ConfigMgr, OpsMgr, SCDPM, SCSM, SCVMM

Tags: SCCM 2012, System Center 2012, System Center 2012 App Controller, System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager, System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection, System Center 2012 Operations Manager, System Center 2012 Orchestrator, System Center 2012 Service Manager, System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager

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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 Manager RC2 is released. You can download the suite here.

Part of the System Center 2012 RC suite is:

System Center 2012 Unified Installer RC
System Center 2012 App Controller Beta
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager RC2
System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager RC
System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection RC
System Center 2012 Operations Manager RC
System Center 2012 Orchestrator RC
System Center 2012 Service Manager RC
System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager RC

Jan

Microsoft released new System Center 2012 licensing model

Categories: ConfigMgr, OpsMgr, SCDPM, SCSM, SCVMM

Tags: Configuration Manager 2012, System Center 2012, System Center 2012 App Controller, System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager, System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection, System Center 2012 Operations Manager, System Center 2012 Orchestrator, System Center 2012 Service Manager, System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager

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Today 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 private cloud workloads)

Buying one of those editions gives you the right to use the complete System Center 2012 suite. The members of the System Center 2012 Suite are:

Configuration Manager
Service Manager
Virtual Machine Manager
Operations Manager
Data Protection Manager
Orchestrator
App Controller
Endpoint Protection

Regarding Client Management Licencing there are three different editions available.

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (per user/device)
System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection (per user/device)
System Center Client Management Suite (per user/OSE, composed of Data Protection Manager, Operations Manager, Service Manager, and Orchestrator)

There is no information available about the pricing of the 5 different licencing options, we will have to wait until the System Center 2012 suite is general available. Nevertheless the new much more simple licencing model makes me happy , and I think that System Center 2012 will be widely adopted!

Read more information about this new licencing model and all of the benefits at the System Center 2012 Licensing website and here

While 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?

Nov

Microsoft System Center 2012 Private Cloud CEP kicks off today

Categories: ConfigMgr, SCDPM, SCSM, SCVMM

Tags: CEP, Community Evaluation Program, Configuration Manager 2012, Private Cloud, SCCM 2012, SCVMM 2012, System Center, System Center 2012, System Center Orchestrator

Comments: 2

Today (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 of peers.

May

TechEd 2011 Session recordings available

Categories: ConfigMgr, SCSM

Tags: Orchestrator 2012, SCCM 2012, System Center Orchestrator, System Center Project Codename "Concero", TechEd

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Yesterday 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 this year, the System Center team placed the links to the recordings and slide decks of most of the System Center Related sessions of TechEd North America which was held in Atlanta last week. See and enjoy the new features of for instance Configuration Manager 2012, Service Manager 2012, Orchestrator 2012 and Operations Manager 2012.

Follow this link to the post of the System Center Team Blog. To see all the TechEd sessions, please follow this link!

Feb

CEP meeting #9 summary “SCCM 2012 Mobile Device Management”

Categories: SCSM

Tags: CEP, Community Evaluation Program, iPhone, Mobile Device Manager, SCCM 2012, Symbian, v.Next, Windows Mobile

Comments: 8

As 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 of MDM 2008 SP1 and SCCM 2007 is combined in SCCM 2007 R3. The same functionality of SCCM 2007 R3 and some nice enhancements and new features will be available in SCCM 2012.

This blog is a summary of the CEP session about SCCM 2012 Mobile Device Management.

Jan

SCSM 2010 SP1 Exchange Connector, a first look

Categories: SCSM

Tags: Exchange Connector, SCSM 2010, SCSM 2010 SP1

Comments: 7

Last 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 mailbox of the workflow service account. Unfortunately you cannot monitor a custom Exchange mailbox.

The installation of the connector is well documented in the deployment guide, but after installing and configuring some issues with the registry occured.

Jan

Adding multiple Self Service Portals to SCSM 2010SP1 (complete steps)

Categories: SCSM

Tags: SCSM 2010, SCSM 2010 SP1, Self Service Portal

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When 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 I will write down the complete steps to follow if you want to add one or more Self Service Portals to System Center Service Manager 2010 SP1.

Nov

System Center Service Manager 2010 TechEd update!

Categories: SCSM

Tags: R2, SCSM 2010, TEE10

Comments: 3

Today 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 session was the explanation of the roadmap and the announcement of SCSM 2010 R2. Read more

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