Kolby Hoover Welcome to SharePoint Designer 2010! As Todd Haugen mentioned in his latest blog, weve got a number of wonderful features this release and were really excited to get them into your hands. This is a follow-up blog to dive into the new shell, or user interface, of SPD 2010. I think this is one of the greatest enhancements for the 2010 .. more »

The management experience given by Exchange 2010 through PowerShell has been moved all the way from Local to Remote. This will mean that enterprise Admins will have to adjust their regular scripts to connect to Remote PowerShell instead of creating a local session. Here are some examples on how can this be achieved and the differences that may .. more »

Virtualizing business critical applications delivers significant benefits, including cost savings, enhanced business continuity, and an agile and efficient management solution. In this webcast, we focus on virtualizing Microsoft Exchange Server using Microsoft solutions, we discuss the benefits of using Microsoft virtualization technologies .. more »

The objective of Problem Management is to resolve the underlying root cause of incidents and consequently prevent incidents from recurring [ITIL]. Proactive Problem Management aims to identifying and solving Problems and Known Errors before the incidents occur. The Problem Management Process Management Pack provides basic capabilities to document .. more »

high level overview of Incident Management in Service Manager I have outlined a scenario here that was requested by a customer and I have demonstrated how we fulfill this scenario in Service Manager in couple blog posts. Create a notification workflow that notifies Joe whenever an incident is created in the SQL queue. Create a view for all .. more »

This post is the second in the series of implementing a sample helpdesk scenario in Service Manager. Please refer to this earlier post for details on configuring Incident Management             Implementing Sample Helpdesk Scenario in Incident Management - 1  I’ll recap the sample scenario for reference 1.  &nbs.. more »

Abstract: Friday's Cool Content: SharePoint 2010 -- videos, videos, videos Category: SharePoint 2010 Published: 10/30/2009 5:15 PM # Comments: 0.. more »

Heres a problem which weve seen a couple of times which can be caused by bad packages in software distribution. This problem can arise when Software Distribution is being used, and you notice that devices dont seem to be getting packages, nor getting updated in the Software Distribution console. As well as this, the following message is logged in .. more »

Many times, the metrics that make up your key performance indicators are not simple values from a data source. In PerformancePoint Server 2007 you could create two kinds of KPI metrics: Simple single value metrics from any supported data source or Complex...(read more).. more »

The poster, Getting started with business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010 , is a review of all the business intelligence (BI) services in SharePoint Server 2010 (Beta) and can be downloaded in Visio , PDF , and XPS file formats. You will notice...(read more).. more »

Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communications Server R2 have two multi forest topologies that have been tested by and are supported by Microsoft. One of these topologies is the Office Communications Server Resource forest \ User forest topology and the other is the Office Communications Server Central forest and User forest topology. .. more »

Nifty YouTube video circulating around that does a fine job of presenting data on social mediahow its changing the culture of communications and so necessarily the way companies need to shift the way they market their products and services. It also explains in global terms why Im doing what Im doing, sitting here on the System Center and .. more »

If you are using the Beta of We value your opinion! Your feedback helps us continue to make System Center Essentials everything you need it to be. We have two easy ways for you to provide feedback: online and in person. Please take a moment and If you are having technical issues with the Essentials 2010 Beta, or want to connect with other IT .. more »

you learned how to get SharePoint 2010 and Astoria working together, how to add a Service Reference to your Client Application and how to do a basic insert. In this installment you will see full CRUD, so youll learn how to do queries, data binding, updates and deletes. we created a Make a Suggestion feature for a department Line of Business .. more »

Each workflow activity performs a function, such as joining a user or a computer to a group in Active Directory or running a script. The Workflow is primarily triggered by one of two mechanisms: schedule or event based. If it is schedule based, the WF can fire periodically based on a predetermined schedule. If it is event based, it is based on some .. more »

The server-packages of October 2009 Cumulative Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are ready for download. October 2009 Cumulative Updates introduce more rules on Pre-Upgrade Checker, which can help customers to prepare the upgrade of their SharePoint farm to SharePoint 2010. Windows SharePoint .. more »

Welcome to the world of Time Intelligence for Microsoft Performance Point Services! Dynamically analyzing your data with respect to time has never been easier. From dissecting historic performance, to calculating Year over Year metrics, to analyzing Year...(read more).. more »

Im Norm Warren, IT Pro writer for SharePoint Server 2010 business intelligence. I also write for and used to write for The following are some of my impressions of my first SharePoint Server 2010 conference. I remember the first SharePoint Server 2007 book I picked up. Surprisingly, it had a chapter on the first chapter. As I spent time with .. more »

Three weeks ago we announced that Exchange 2010 was code complete. As we get ready for launch, we're seeing some amazing results from our early adopter customers. Julia White, Director of Exchange Marketing, shares some of these early highlights on the Unified Communications Blog. Check out her post and see how Exchange 2010 (and you) can do the .. more »

We've been working on the Downloads page on the Communications Server TechCenter! Check out the improvements:          Separate pages devoted to 2007 R2 Downloads and 2007 Downloads;          Clearer categorization of available 2007 R2 downloads;        &.. more »