A collection of how-to videos highlighting new features and capabilities of System Center and other Microsoft technologies. http://technet.microsoft.com/systemcenter/dd627344.aspx en-us Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:03:23 +0530 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:03:21 +0530 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) http://www.feedforall.com This video discusses Application Management at Microsoft on System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 2 on 150,000 clients in the Microsoft IT environment. Hear the benefits Microsoft IT sees with Configuration Manager 2012 for application management. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/systemcenter/cm/hh205611.aspx 357DA2F6-3E6A-453B-942A-604A246E305C Fri, 27 May 2011 23:00:00 +0530 Watch short videos that focus on specific tasks and show you how to accomplish them in System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/systemcenter/cm/gg721914.aspx a021b603-be84-4984-a04b-441332f4de71 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:00:00 +0530 This video discusses the hardware and migration strategy used to get to 50,000 System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 1 clients in the Microsoft IT environment. Hear the benefits Microsoft IT sees with Configuration Manager 2012 for client management. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/systemcenter/gg696074.aspx 20d5b805-e6d0-437d-be63-5bbe65fc85b9 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:00:00 +0530 Fourth video in the Discovery series for Operations Manager 2007. In this video Brian Wren explains script discoveries in management packs and walks through the creation of one using both VBScript and PowerShell for a sample application. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/systemcenter/gg535419.aspx AA9A6524-D40B-40CC-9768-40657E288B55 Sat, 25 Dec 2010 01:26:32 +0530 Second video in the Discovery series for Operations Manager 2007. In this video Brian Wren explains registry discoveries in management packs and walks through the creation of one for a sample application. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/systemcenter/gg465414.aspx D04CAFCF-1874-4772-87EF-B23E8CB889DD Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:17:36 +0530 Third video in the Discovery series for Operations Manager 2007. In this video Brian Wren explains WMI discoveries in management packs and walks through the creation of one for a sample application. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/systemcenter/gg430356.aspx D61094BE-F5A7-410B-BDDA-8A3A41758AC6 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:13:39 +0530 First video in the Discovery series for Operations Manager 2007. In this video Brian Wren explains the basic concepts of discovery and describes the different types of discovery that are available. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/systemcenter/gg276912.aspx C8325502-4A18-441D-8061-EC649FE504B5 Wed, 6 Oct 2010 15:07:25 +0530 Linked Reports in Operations Manager 2007 allow you to customize a generic report for use in a management pack. In this video, Brian Wren explains how Linked Reports work and walks through two different examples of creating them. http://technet.microsoft.com/systemcenter/ff959235.aspx 6A27AB1B-B5AA-4E7F-BBFC-CE84EF6464D8 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:28:23 +0530 In this video, Brian Wren explains the concepts of classes and targets in Operations Manager 2007 and provides two methods for creating a custom class that can be used as the target for custom monitors and rules for an application. http://technet.microsoft.com/systemcenter/ff860024.aspx D4061B54-F5D7-449D-B0D5-F017DFB836DF Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:28:04 +0530 In this video, Brian Wren demonstrates how to create a management pack containing a monitor and rule sharing a Windows PowerShell script. The demonstration includes modifying an existing script to be included in a management pack and then creating custom modules and monitor types to run the script and make its collected data available to workflows. Finally, a rule and monitor are created to collect data from the script for reporting and to set the health state of a managed object. The concept of the solution and each step are discussed prior to a detailed walkthrough of their creation and configuration. http://technet.microsoft.com/systemcenter/ff770155.aspx C18F3E65-D3A2-471C-8B1A-F15E172FAF4A Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:52:17 +0530 In this video, Kyle Rosenthal, demonstrates install, configure and deploy System Center Configuration Manager. He also examines how to push deploy the Config Manager client to machines in your domain. http://technet.microsoft.com/systemcenter/ff467961.aspx 3B698BFB-37B4-43B6-986E-ABG71FBC4B01 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:34:55 +0530 Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 provides IT Pros with a powerful set of tools for managing the Windows Mobile devices in their enterprise. In this video, Gordon Ryan shows you how to use the Powershell environment to manage your devices. http://technet.microsoft.com/systemcenter/dd904406.aspx FCC8CA82-671D-4D1D-BDE3-54D8D78B74B3 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:21:35 +0530 Windows Mobile devices have become a standard component in the information workers arsenal today, but as an network administrator, they can pose a number of challenges when it comes to management and security. Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 lets IT Pros manage Windows Mobile devices in the same way they manage windows PCs. In this video, Gordon Ryan demonstrates how to pre-enroll a device and then from the device, enroll it in the domain. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/dd904413.aspx 00E90811-E2BC-49FC-B25B-EA8A81791516 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:43:26 +0530 Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 provides IT Pros with a powerful set of tools for managing the Windows Mobile devices in their enterprise. In this video, Gordon Ryan shows you how to create a group policy object that can be used to manage the features of Windows Mobile devices and then how to force an update of the policy settings on a mobile device. http://technet.microsoft.com/systemcenter/dd904327.aspx 3B68DBFB-37B4-43B6-986E-AFA71FBC4B01 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:34:55 +0530 With the ability to manage virtualization hosts running Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual Server as well as VMWare servers, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 provides IT Pros with a cost effective single solution for both homogenous and heterogeneous virtualization environments. In this video, Gordon Ryan takes you through the initial installation of the Virtual Machine Manager Server, console and Self Service portal. http://technet.microsoft.com/systemcenter/dd575548.aspx C8A0C121-4C34-4BBC-A265-4E05B1C08D65 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:48:27 -0700 With all of the excitement around DPM 2007 and Service Pack 1, we wanted to take the opportunity to get under the covers and really talk about how DPM replicates data. http://edge.technet.com/Media/DPM-2007-SP1-How-does-DPM-really-work/ http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/edge/7/0/3/2/DPM2007SP1_edge.wmv Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:53:00 +0000 This video continues the series of feature-level podcasts on DPM 2007, this week focusing on Exchange Server and item level restore. While DPM 2007 natively protects Exchange Storage Groups, and restores both SG's and DB's - it does not directly restore mailboxes or individual items. For granluar recovery, we leverage the Recovery Storage Group (RSG), as prescribed by the Exchange product team. Direct individual item restore is not supported by Exchange without using the Recovery Storage Group (RSG). http://edge.technet.com/Media/DPM-2007-how-to-do-individual-item-restore-for-Exchange/ http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/edge/2/2/2/2/DPM2007exchangeITEM_edge.wmv Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:01:00 +0000 So, you've heard about System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 and all of the cool stuff that it does for protecting Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, Virtualization, File Servers and desktops. http://edge.technet.com/Media/DPM-2007-sp1-Licensing/ http://edge.technet.com/Media/DPM-2007-sp1-Licensing/ Tue, 9 Dec 2008 14:08:00 +0000 This segment continues our series on "What is new in Service Pack 1" for System Center Data Protection Manager. http://edge.technet.com/Media/What-is-new-in-DPM-2007-SP1-for-protecting-SharePoint/ http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/edge/5/3/1/2/DPM2007SP1SharePoint_edge.wmv Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:01:00 +0000 Brad Anderson, Microsoft General Manager of the Management & Services Division, starts off by asking Scott Farrand, HP Vice President for ESS Software, about the history of the partnership and integration between HP and Microsoft.� After this we learn about the new System Center announcements at TechEd EMEA � Pro management packs and HP patching catalog. http://edge.technet.com/Media/HPrsquos-partnership-with-System-Center/ http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/edge/6/3/0/2/HPPartnershipSystemCenter_edge.wmv Mon, 3 Nov 2008 08:00:00 +0000 Barry Shilmover announces the beta of System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)�2007 R2 at TechEd EMEA and tells us about some of the cool features coming out.� The cross platform extensions component will be open source for the 1st time and will be automatically included in R2. The beta will be available end of November 2008, RTM is scheduled for the 1st half of calendar year 2009. Checkout Barry�s cross platform demo on Edge (http://edge.technet.com/Media/Operations-Manager-with-Barry-Shilmover/) http://edge.technet.com/Media/SCOM-2007-R2-goes-open-source/ http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/edge/5/3/0/2/SCOM2007R2OpenSource_edge.wmv Mon, 3 Nov 2008 08:00:00 +0000 Jeff Wettlaufer sits with Brad Anderson, general manager in the Management Services Division, to talk about the current state of the System Center product suite, and touches on some key announcements at TechEd 2008 in Barcelona. A big theme: how System Center can help save organizations money in managing their IT infrastructure. http://edge.technet.com/Media/System-Center-Announcements-at-TechEd-Barcelona/ http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/edge/9/3/0/2/BradTechEdEMEA_edge.wmv Mon, 3 Nov 2008 05:45:00 +0000 Jeff Wettlaufer, technical product manager in System Center marketing, chats with Brad Anderson, GM of the Management Services Division, about the latest desktop virtualization innovations that are a part of the R2 release of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/configurationmanager). http://edge.technet.com/Media/Desktop-Virtualization-and-Configuration-Manager/ http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/edge/3/5/9/1/brad2desktop_edge.wmv Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:20:00 +0000 If you happen to be managing a mid-sized business IT environment (with, shall we say, ~50-500 desktops and up to 30 servers), and are tired of dealing with multiple tools and processes, and just wish you had a better way, David Mills, technical product manager, will show you what Microsoft has to offer in this space, System Center Essentials. http://edge.technet.com/Media/Intro-to-System-Center-Essentials/ http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/edge/4/3/9/1/Mills1SCE_edge.wmv Wed, 8 Oct 2008 13:10:00 -0700 Mike Bowe and Paul Ghostline of Quest Software talk with Microsoft's Martin Buckley about working with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions and the new opportunities Quest is seeing. http://edge.technet.com/Media/Quest-Software-and-System-Center-Operations-Manager-2007-Cross-Platform-Extensions/ http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/edge/7/1/9/questfinal_edge.wmv Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:29:00 +0000 Breiner Queiroz is a Senior Systems Analyst for the Post Office in Sao Paolo Brazil. In this video, he talks about his experience deploying Operations Manager. He talks about the challenges of getting a project like OpsMan deployed on a limited budget, and working with a new technology. http://edge.technet.com/Media/System-Center-Operations-Manager-and-the-Brazilian-Post-Office/ http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/edge/4/0/3/1/scombrazil_edge.wmv Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:02:00 +0000 System Center Mobile Device Manager is a new product in the System Center line that provides management and VPN for Windows Mobile devices. Michael Jimenez is an Architect that works in the mobility space for MCS. Michael walked me through the features of the product, whiteboarded an overview of what the architecture of a deployment looks like, then wrapped up with a tour of his office, including the window sill museum of old smartphones. (one minor correction needs to be made: in the video, Mike states that a single scmdm installation can support 20,000 devices. In the time since we recorded, the product team has found through testing that they actually scale to 30,000! devices) http://edge.technet.com/Media/Intro-to-System-Center-Mobile-Device-Manager-scmdm-2008/ http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/edge/1/2/5/scmdm_edge.wmv Wed, 6 Feb 2008 08:01:00 +0000 I recently caught up with Josh to talk about the latest version of SMS, now known as System Center Configuration Manager. Josh has been working with SMS as long as the product has been around, and brought his experience to corp to help the System Center team improve the product. We talk about the new features like OS deployment as well as improvements to existing product features. http://edge.technet.com/Media/System-Center-Configuration-Manager-with-Josh-Pointer/ http://edge.technet.com/Media/System-Center-Configuration-Manager-with-Josh-Pointer/ Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:01:00 +0000 Robb Mapp of Microsoft Integrated Virtualization analyst relations speaks to Macehiter Ward-Dutton Research Director Neil Macehiter about the state of systems management and virtualization and the benefits of Microsoft's System Center and Hyper-V. http://edge.technet.com/Media/An-Analysts-Perspective-on-System-Centers-Cross-Platform-Management/ http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/edge/9/1/9/macheiter_edge.wmv Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:38:00 +0000 Andreas Typaldos, CEO of Xandros, talks with Martin Buckley of Microsoft about working with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions and the new opportunities Xandros is seeing. http://edge.technet.com/Media/Xandros-and-System-Center-Operations-Manager-2007-Cross-Platform-Extensions/ http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/edge/8/1/9/xandros_edge.wmv Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:19:00 +0000