As some may have noticed I did some changes to this blog recently. First I decided to change the theme of my blog to something more simplistic. After some searching around the web I found a great Wordpress theme named Independent Publisher. I definitively recommend checking out this theme if you are running a Wordpress blog. It’s very reader-focused and also entirely open-source. Besides that, I opted for enabling SSL for the whole site.…

Since the release of Service Manager 2012 R2 Update Rollup 6, the use of SQL Server 2014 is officially supported by Microsoft. This probably seems like a pretty good thing because for new installations you probably want to use the newest SQL Server version. And since SQL Server 2014 was released back in April 2015 more and more customers are using latest version for their System Center deployments. Well, this all sounds pretty good in theory.…

Long time since my last Service Manager Lync Up summary. Unfortunately I was unable to attend the last Lync Up sessions but this time I could make it work. And it was worth it :-) The product team shared some very interesting facts about upcoming fixes in UR9 as well as Technical Preview 4. As always you can download the recording and the slides from here. Next meeting will take place on January 19th.…