System Center

Thank you for those who attended System Center Universe on January 31st. We had a full house! This is the first time that System Center Universe was hosted in Singapore and streamed to few countries in South East Asia. It was a fantastic day of technical presentations and demos. Topics covered including: Using System Center Operations Manager for Deep Application Monitoring and Diagnostics Choosing Network Options in the new Hyper-V 2012 and SCVMM Service Pack 1 is HERE! What can I use? Enabling Hosted and Shared Private Cloud using System Center 2012 SP1 Service Provider Framework Using SCCM 2012 to perform More Efficient Patch and Compliance Management How to lighten your IT workload footprint with System Center 2012 and Software Center We also launched the System Center User Group APAC. Join the group now to learn from community of experts on System Center: https://www.facebook.com/groups/31495111417/ if you missed out the session, you can access the speaker presentations and event photos from the link below: http://sdrv.ms/Y73uwD More importantly download and try System Center 2012 SP1: http://aka.ms/SC2012_SP1eval

System Center was voted at TechEd North America this year as the Best Microsoft Product. At TechEd NA 2012, System Center 2012 SP1 CTP2 was announced, there are many exciting new features coming up with CTP2. There is a recorded session from TechEd NA on Channel 9 covering what is new in SP1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/VIR201 Below is list of key new features. All components now support Windows Server 2012 RC and SQL Server 2012. ...

Microsoft is actually the biggest beta testing customer for Microsoft. Microsoft IT deploys our pre-release product all the time. They feedback their learnings to products groups and some of them become best practices. In this video, You will see how Microsoft IT deployed System Center Configuration Manager 2012 to manage 280,000 users in the first phase of migration, which took less than 90 days. Configuration Manager 2012 was built on the vision of a user-centric client-management model with the vision of empowering the user, unifying infrastructure, and extending management control across the platform. You will hear more on how Microsoft IT benefit from these new features. Listen to the video to understand more. Download SCCM2012 to try it out.

Microsoft IT Camps is coming in 2012. It is a series FREE workshops for IT Professionals to learn and understand Microsoft technologies. There are three different themes: Datacenter Virtualization Implementing Private Cloud Enabling Consumerization of IT Join your peers for a hands-on, highly-interactive and engaging learning experience around Microsoft technologies and solutions. Have real-world discussions and work with technology experts and your peers to solve scenario-based problems. Date Theme Request an Invite ...

Maarten is a System Center MVP, Consultant, Trainer and Well-known international speaker. Hear from him on some interesting projects that he did over the years. Excited about the capabilties of System Center? Learn about System Center 2012 Technical Resources – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-sg/evalcenter/hh478202.aspx Join FREE online training - http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com Familiar yourself with new System Center 2012 Pre-release – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-sg/evalcenter/hh505660.aspx

A private cloud helps you deliver what the service consumer and the service provider want by providing a simple and effective way to deliver “IT as a Service” and today three new products in our System Center 2012 lineup that help make your private cloud experience real - specifically App Controller, Service Manager & Orchestrator. As of today, App Controller and Service Manager are in public beta while Orchestrator is available as a public release candidate. Go here to download and evaluate how App Controller, Service Manager and Orchestrator can enable your private cloud experience. If you attended TechDays Singapore 2011, we talked about all these three products. If you missed out the sessions, recordings of the sessions on App Controller, Service Manager and Orchestrator are available at link below. Cloud Management with System Center Application Controller Self-Service Private Cloud Management through Integrated Processes with Service Manager 2012 Automating your Infrastructure: Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 Technical Overview To learn more about Microsoft Private Cloud and System Center go to http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com for FREE online training.

Our first Microsoft TechDays Singapore held on 13 October 2011 attracted more than 1000 delegates! If you missed the event, do check out the highlights.We hope to see you in TechDays Singapore 2012. (you may register your interest here) TechDays Singapore 2011 highlights Keynote video Watch Ziriad Saibi’s keynote on Microsoft’s cloud story. Breakout sessions videos and slides Track 1: Infrastructure Self-Service Private Cloud Management through Integrated Processes with Service Manager 2012 Maarten Goet and Raju Chellam (Dell Singapore) The Future of Infrastructure Monitoring: A Look at Application Monitoring and SCOM 2012 Raymond Chou, Simon Skinner and Wong Poey Yong (NetApp Singapore) Configuration Manager 2012 Technical Overview Teh Wei King SCVMM 2012 Building of Private Clouds and Federation to the Public Cloud Lai Yoong Seng Automating your Infrastructure: Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 Technical Overview Kwan Thean Keong F5 Optimizations for Microsoft Platform Leslie Wong(F5 Networks) Track 2: Platform Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform Ryan Crawcour Cloud Management with System Center Application Controller Lai Yoong Seng Microsoft Exchange Server and Office 365: Hybrid Deployment Sanjeev Thakur and Ram Muthkaruppan SCDPM 2012: The new feature of data protection Mike Resseler How to Run Middleware in the Cloud? Story of Windows Azure AppFabric Hammad Rajjoub Simplified Infrastructure Solutions Thomas Chua (Hitachi Data Systems) Track 3: Application HTML5: All the Awesome Bits Michael Kordahi Mango, Mango! Developing for Windows Phone 7 Mingfei Yan Revealing WebMatrix 2.0 Beta – the Swiss Army Knife of Web Development Thye Yeow Bok OData with WCF Web APIs: “There’s a URI for That” Alvin Lau NUI, Gooey and Louie Michael Kordahi Revenue Generator Suite Niger Tan (aZaaS) Making your first step to the cloud? Go Private or go Public? Check out the resources that will take you there. Private cloud resources: http://weshipcode.com/private Public cloud resources: http://weshipcode.com/public

Lai, Virtual Machine MVP has more than 10 years of IT industry experience and is a Technical Consultant for Infront Consulting Group. He specializes in Hyper-V and System Center products. Lai has actively presents at local events and community such as Microsoft Virtualization Day, Microsoft Cloud Day… [more] [slideshare id=9745003&doc=mstechdays2011-scvmm2012buildingofprivatecloudsandfederationtothepubliccloud-111018051206-phpapp02]

System Center Data Protection Manager MVP Mike Resseler is mainly focused on the entire System Center suite, combined with the MOF and IO framework. He has over 10 years of experience in the IT industry. He is a Senior Technical Consultant for Infront Consulting where he focuses on delivering projects with added value, and… [more] [slideshare id=9780030&doc=mstechdays2011-scdpm2012thenewfeatureofdataprotection-111019230258-phpapp02]

Kwan is a Microsoft Most Valuable Profesional in System Center Operations Manager and has been working on Systems Management for the past 6 years primarily focusing on System Center technologies & Microsoft Virtualization Technology. He also focus on… [more] [slideshare id=9745120&doc=mstechdays2011-systemcenterorchestrator-111018051937-phpapp01]