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System Center in Action - Best Practices

Discover System Center best practices and real-world experience in action. You’ll find collective experiences of a team that designs, operates, and showcases industry-standard, production implementations of System Center client and server management solutions here. Our experience comes from a few specific customers that we manage – Microsoft IT, a global enterprise manufacturing company, and a financial services company – as well as the Microsoft.com Operations Engineering team behind some of the largest corporate websites in the world: www.microsoft.com, Microsoft Update, Download Center, MSDN and TechNet. 

Client and Server Management: System Center in Action

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Best Practices – System Center

Microsoft Monitors 12,000 URLs More Efficiently with System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (Video)
In today’s economic climate, doing more with less is a requirement. The Microsoft Managed Services Division uses Microsoft System Center Operations Ma... more
Friday, Oct 28
Opalis @ Microsoft - the Internal Microsoft Adoption Story
Watch this webcast on demand to hear discussion on how Microsoft is using Opalis.
Wednesday, Jun 29 by Charlie Satterfield, Jim Britt
Extending Incident Properties and Forms in System Center Service Manager
This post shares additional information on how MPSD leverages SCSM and is able to extend incident properties and forms to meet the needs of many diffe... more
Tuesday, Apr 26 by Jim Livingston
Using Opalis to Move Files Across Untrusted Domains
Marian Stanescu shares his first-hand Opalis architecture and experience in a blog post on how he used Opalis to automate moving files across untruste... more
Wednesday, Apr 6 by Marian Stanescu
System Center Service Manager Experience at Microsoft
Jim Livingston shares his team's experience planning, architecting, and deploying Service Manager at Microsoft. Read the paper or watch the video of h... more
Thursday, Oct 14 by Jim Livingston
Deployment Planning, Architecture and Guidance on System Center Service Manager
Microsoft IT implemented System Center Service Manager to improve their IT service management which provides built-in processes for incident and probl... more
Tuesday, Aug 24
Monitoring and Diagnostic Guidance for Windows Azure–hosted Applications
This document is intended for development and operations teams that need to monitor applications hosted on the Windows Azure Services Platform, enabli... more
Monday, Jun 21 by Brian Copps
Monitoring Guidelines for Microsoft.com and Update.Microsoft.com
Read this doc to learn about some monitoring and diagnostics tips and tricks from the Operations team running Microsoft.com and Update.Microsoft.com. ... more
Monday, Jun 21 by Brian Copps
Virtualization Cuts Capital and Operating Expenses by 75 Percent at Microsoft
Microsoft IT is using Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007, and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine ... more
Tuesday, May 11
Failure during Windows Server 2008 System State Backup & System Writer Missing
For some of those new to DPM 2007, you might find yourself in a situation where a Windows Server 2008 (and R2) is failing during backups consistently.
Thursday, Mar 11

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Best Practices – System Center

Manufacturer Recharges Endpoint Protection with Integrated PC Security Solution
Read about Forefront 2010 deployment at Energizer.
Friday, Sep 30
TechNet Webcast: Patch Management at Microsoft Using System Center Configuration Manager (Level 300)
Join Patrick & Satish as they discuss patch management at Microsoft. This is one of the most frequently asked questions of our team. Join live to ask ... more
Friday, Jun 24 by Patrick McSweeney & Satish Petwe
Application Management in Configuration Manager 2012 at Microsoft
This video discusses Application Management at Microsoft on System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 2 on 150,000 clients in the Microsoft IT env... more
Friday, May 27 by Microsoft System Center
Understanding Update Management in ConfigMgr 2007
This blog post comes out of our service engineering operations team and details update management. Follow the System Center in Action blog for the sec... more
Monday, May 2 by Jitendra Ramesh Kalyankar
Physical to Virtual Migration Toolkit Available on Connect
Read this blog post for how to sign up to review a pre-release version of the Physical to Virtual migration toolkit. At first this was just created fo... more
Thursday, Mar 31 by Chris Adams
Security and Anti-Malware at Microsoft: Forefront 2010
Hear about how Microsoft IT deployed Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2010 to simplify and improve endpoint protection. Because FEP 2010 ... more
Monday, Feb 28 by Ryan Williamson
Energizer Controls Unwanted Software and Boosts Performance with Operating System
Energizer is one of the customers managed by this team, and we worked together to implemented Windows 7 AppLocker, which Energizer now uses to specify... more
Wednesday, Feb 9
Configuration Manager 2012 at Microsoft
This video discusses the hardware and migration strategy used to get to 50,000 System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 1 clients in the Microsof... more
Monday, Jan 17 by Bryan Allen and Eric Orman
See How Microsoft Increases Security and Streamlines Antimalware Management by Using Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010
Read how Microsoft has deployed Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 with ConfigMgr 2007 to over 100k desktops.
Tuesday, Jan 4 by Ryan Williamson
Windows Intune at Doosan
Check out this video of Doosan (one of MPSD's customers) using Intune - a service through Microsoft that delivers PC management including updates, in... more
Tuesday, Nov 16 by Alex Heaton

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