This page describes how to get involved in the System Center community by providing an index of community resources and key community contributors to follow. This page is intended to be a living index meaning that your contributions to the page to add new content, update content, or remove outdated content are encouraged. It is hard to keep track of the constantly changing shape of the community so it is essential that everyone contributes to keeping this index up to date.
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Gallery
Wiki
Operations Manager
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Virtual Machine Manager
Orchestrator (fka Opalis)
Data Protection Manager
App Controller
Configuration Manager
Forums (pre-2012) Forums (2012)
If you want to stay current on all new System Center content and announcements, follow the blogs above either via RSS, Facebook or Twitter.
If you want to ask or answer a support questions, visit the forums.
Looking for an official KB article documenting a known issue, or maybe a hotfix or update rollup package? This is where you want to go. You can search the Microsoft Knowledge Base as well as other Microsoft properties using the link below.
http://support.microsoft.com/search/
This is where you’ll find our official product documentation and release notes. If you’re looking for a deployment guide or instructions on how to configure a particular aspect of a System Center product this is where you want to look. The start page is linked below and from there you can find documentation for all specific System Center products.
The TechNet Library: http://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh546785
Every time the System Center team publishes a new piece of content it gets mentioned on the blogs, on Facebook and on Twitter. You can find the System Center team on Facebook and Twitter using the links below.
Engineering and Support Team Twitter Handle: @MS_SystemCenter Facebook fan page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Microsoft-System-Center-Support/111513322193410
Travis Wright: @radtravis Stefan Stranger: @sstranger
Maarten Goet: @maarten_goet Kristian Nese: @kristiannese James van den Berg: @jamesvandenberg Marcus Oh: @errantsunset Torsten Meringer: @tmeringer Bob Cornelissen: @bob_cornelissen Islam Gomaa: @islamgomaa Cleber Marques: @cleberfmarques and @systemcenterbr Raymond Chou: @exotrinity Damian Flynn: @damian_flynn Kevin Greene: @kgreeneit John Joyner: @john_joyner Patrik Sundqvist: @gridpatrik Marcel Zehner: @scsmfaq Chris Ross: @scsmus Harri Puupponen: @harripuupponen Christopher Keyaert: @keyaertc Pete Zerger: @pzerger Marnix Wolf: @marnixwolf Oskar Landman: @oskarlandman Stefan Koell: @stefankoell Simon Skinner: @cymonskinner Alex Verkinderen: @alexverkinderen Mike Resseler: @MikeResseler Mohamed Fawzi: @vFawzi Robert Hedblom: @RobertandDPM Matt Marlor: @MattMOfDoom Silvio Di Benedetto: @s_net Rob Ford: @manxferdey Cameron Fuller: @CFullerMVP Nicolai Henriksen: @Nicolaitwitt Steve Buchanan: @Buchatech Rodney Buike: @Rbuike Kamil Skalski: @KamilSkalski Cliff Hobbs (ConfigMgr) @cliffhobbs Greg Ramsey @ramseyg
Patrick Lownds: @PatrickLownds Robert Smit: @Clustermvp Nathan Lasnoski: @nlasnoski Aidan Finn: @joe_elway Hans Vredevoort: @hvredevoort Robert Marshall: @RobMVP
System Center Cloud and Data Center Management MVPs
System Center: #sysctr System Center App Controller: #appcontroller System Center Virtual Machine Manager: #scvmm System Center Service Manager: #scsm System Center Operations Manager: #scom System Center Data Protection Manager: #scdpm System Center Orchestrator: #scorc (not #scorch!!) System Center Advisor: #scadvisor System Center Configuration Manager: #configmgr
Alessandro Cardoso (MVP) http://virtualisationandmanagement.wordpress.com/ Alexey Zhuravlev (MVP) http://opsmgr.ru/ Anders Asp (MVP) http://www.scsm.se/ Anton Gritsenco (MVP) http://blog.scsmsolutions.ru/ and http://blog.scsmsolutions.com/ Berg van den James (MVP) http://mountainss.wordpress.com/ Bob Cornelissen (MVP) http://www.bictt.com/blogs/bictt.php Brian Ehlert (MVP) http://itproctology.blogspot.com/ Cameron Fuller (MVP) http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/default.aspx Cameron Fuller (MVP) http://www.systemcentercentral.com/blogs/cameronfuller Carston Rachfal (MVP) http://www.hyper-v-server.de/ Christopher Keyaert (MVP) http://scug.be/blogs/christopher/ Cleber Marques (MVP) http://www.clebermarques.com/
Cliff Hobbs (MVP) http://www.faqshop.com/wp/blogs Damian Flynn (MVP) http://www.damianflynn.com/
Daniel Mar (MVP): http://outlookcloudy.blogspot.com/ Daniele Grandini (MVP) http://nocentdocent.wordpress.com/ Duncan Lindquist http://blog.concurrency.com/author/dlindquist/ François Dufour (MVP) http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/fdufour/default.aspx Graham Davies (MVP) http://www.systemcentersolutions.co.uk/ Greg Ramsey (MVP) http://gregramsey.wordpress.com/ Hans Vredevoort (MVP) http://www.hyper-v.nu/ Jason Sandys (MVP) http://blog.configmgrftw.com/ Jay Ferron (MVP) http://blog.mir.net/ John Joyner (MVP) http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/networking John Joyner (MVP) http://opsmgrunleashed.wordpress.com/ Kamil Skalski (MVP) http://skalski.info/ Kerrie Meyler (MVP) http://www.networkworld.com/community/meyler Kerrie Meyler (MVP) http://opsmgrunleashed.wordpress.com/ Kevin Greene (MVP) http://kevingreeneitblog.blogspot.com/ Kristian Nese (MVP) http://kristiannese.blogspot.com/ Lai Yoong Seng (MVP) http://www.ms4u.info/ Leandro Carvalho (MVP) http://leandroesc.wordpress.com/ (en-US) http://msmvps.com/blogs/MSVirtualization(pt-BR) Marcel Zehner (MVP) http://blog.scsmfaq.ch/ Marcelo Sincic (MVP) http://www.marcelosincic.com.br/ (pt-BR) http://msincic.wordpress.com/ (en-US) Marcus Oh (MVP) http://marcusoh.blogspot.com/ Markus Bäker (MVP) http://www.mbaeker.de/ Marnix Wolf (MVP) http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/ Matt Marlor (MVP) http://www.autechheads.com/matt-marlor Michel Kamp (MVP) http://www.stateview.nl/blogs/michelkamp ( non MVP ) Mike Resseler (MVP) http://www.scug.be/blogs/mike and http://www.scug.be/blogs/scdpm Mitch Garvis (MVP) http://www.garvis.ca/ Mohamed Fawzi Emam (MVP) http://fawzi.wordpress.com/ Nathan Lasnoski (MVP) http://blog.concurrency.com/author/nlasnoski/ Niall Brady (MVP) http://www.windows-noob.com/ Niall Brady (MVP) http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/nbrady/default.aspx Nicolai Henriksen (MVP) http://systemcenterforefront.blogspot.com/ Oskar Landman (MVP) http://www.systemcentercentral.com/blogs/oskarl Patrik Sundqvist (MVP) http://litware.se/ Pete Zerger (MVP) http://www.systemcentercentral.com/blogs/pzerger Raymond Chou (MVP) http://mymomexperience.blogspot.com/ Rob Ford (MVP) http://scsmnz.net/ Robert Hedblom (MVP) http://robertanddpm.blogspot.com/ Robert Marshall (MVP) http://wmug.co.uk/wmug/b/r0b/default.aspx Robert Smit (MVP) http://robertsmit.wordpress.com/ Rodney Buike (MVP) http://thelazyadmin.com/ Rory McCaw (MVP) http://www.systemcentercentral.com/blogs/rorymccaw Steve Buchanan (MVP) http://www.buchatech.com/category/microsoft/system-center/ Scott Moss (MVP) http://om2012.wordpress.com/ Silvio Di Benedetto (MVP) S.Net Blog Stefan Koell (MVP) http://www.code4ward.net/main/Blog/tabid/70/BlogID/4/ParentBlogID/3/Default.aspx Torsten Meringer (MVP) http://www.mssccmfaq.de/ Yegor Startsev (MVP) http://ystartsev.wordpress.com/
Artem Pronichkin http://blogs.technet.com/b/vm/ Anders Bengtsson http://www.contoso.se Brad Anderson http://blogs.technet.com/b/in_the_cloud/ Brian Wren http://blogs.technet.com/b/mpauthor/ Christopher Crammond http://blogs.technet.com/b/random_happy_dev_thoughts/ Kevin Holman http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/ Matt Goedtel http://blogs.technet.com/b/mgoedtel/ Marcin Jastrzebski http://blogs.technet.com/marcin_jastrzebski Kristopher Bash http://operatingquadrant.com/ Stefan Stranger http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_stranger/ Steve Rachui http://blogs.msdn.com/b/steverac/ Zhenhua Yao http://blogs.msdn.com/b/yao Antoni Hanus http://blogs.technet.com/b/antoni/ Neil Peterson http://blogs.technet.com/b/neilp/
Andrey Gerkin http://ckrim.blogspot.com/ Belgium SC User Group - DPM http://www.scug.be/blogs/scdpm Belgium SC User Group - SCVMM http://scug.be/blogs/scvmm Gary Davidson http://garydavidson.net/ Greg Widerski http://scsmguru.wordpress.com/ Ian Blyth http://ianblythmanagement.wordpress.com/ Info Support http://blogs.infosupport.com/ Jakob Gottlieb Svendsen http://blog.coretech.dk/author/jgs/ Jimmy Harper http://blogs.technet.com/b/jimmyharper/ Kåre Rude Andersen http://blog.coretech.dk/author/kra/ Michael Seidl http://www.techguy.at/ Michel Lüscher http://www.server-talk.eu/ Michiel Wouters http://michielw.blogspot.com/ myITforum.com http://www.myitforum.com/ Robert http://msopsmgr.blogspot.com/ TechLog http://www.techlog.org/ Valérie http://scug.be/blogs/valerie/ Men In Cloud http://blog.menincloud.com/ Avanade Cloud Builder http://www.thecloudbuilderblog.com/ Inframon http://blogs.inframon.com/default.aspx Marius Sandbu http://msandbu.wordpress.com/ Mats Wigle http://www.opsmode.com/ Stefan Roth http://blog.scomfaq.ch/ Thomas Maurer http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/ Markus Klein http://www.sc-servicemanager.eu/index.php/blog Tobias Haeger http://www.sc-configurationmanager.eu/index.php/blog Stefan Horz http://www.sc-orchestrator.eu/index.php/blog Markus Strazar http://www.sc-operationsmanager.eu/index.php/blog Dutch WMUG User Group Blog aggregator http://wmug.nl/category/blogs/ UK WMUG User Group Blogs http://wmug.co.uk/
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