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The first day at the Microsoft Management Summit made some one thing clear, System Center is hot! More than 4000 people from all over the world attend MMS and are following sessions about products from the System Center Suite. With 157 breakout sessions and 81 labs, there is allot to learn and allot of people to meet. MMS is the place to network if System Center is your focus.

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This weekend I was flabbergasted by the email I received from Microsoft. The email stated that I was one of the winners of the Microsoft Management Summit 2011 in Las Vegas. :) Since TechEd last year I became part of the Community Evaluation Program of System Center Configuration Manager 2012. Attending Live Meetings and writing blogs about the new version of SCCM enabled me to enter the “Configuration Manager Community Evaluation Program Community Contest”. Thanks everybody @ the CMCEP Team!

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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. 

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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.

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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


A week from now, I am off to TechEd 2010 in Berlin. During this week I will have my focus on all System Center and Exchange Server 2010 related sessions. Alot of information will be shared during this week, by Microsoft and their partners. I will try to share the “System Center” news in this blog.

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