Service Manager Lync Up call available

Happy New Year! Our first Service Manager #LyncUp Call for 2016  is now available for download.  Even though SCU was also on, our call was well attended by our customers and partners. The January call covered the following topics:

• Cased Dimension’s Management Pack introduction: Thank you to the Managing Director Liam Murray for his time and quick overview.

• Discussed the upcoming Update Rollup 9 and the next hotfix for the portal, coming January 26, 2016. More details on UR9 are available in last month’s LyncUp call here:

Service Manager December 2015 #LyncUp Call available for download

• Service Manager Technical Preview 4. The new iteration in the SCSM 2016 Technical Preview series has many new improvements:

• Configuration Manager and AD connectors become 65%* and 50%* faster respectively with ECL log disabling feature (optional)
• Incident workflows have become 50%* faster
• AD group expansion enhancements have made it schedulable and 75%* faster
• ECL grooming has become 3 times * faster

Read more about what’s new here:

https :// technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt346039.aspx

You can also get the evaluation VHD here:

https:// www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49967

Our Blogs

• Configuration Manager: http://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/
• Data Protection Manager: http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/
• Orchestrator: http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/
• Operations Manager: http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/
• Operations Management Suite: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/omsblog/
• Service Manager: http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager
• Virtual Machine Manager: http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm
• Microsoft Intune: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/intunesupport/
• WSUS: http://blogs.technet.com/sus/
• AD and Azure RMS: http://blogs.technet.com/b/rms/
• Application Virtualization: http://blogs.technet.com/appv/
• MED-V: http://blogs.technet.com/medv/
• Application Proxy: http://blogs.technet.com/b/applicationproxyblog/
• Forefront Endpoint Protection: http://blogs.technet.com/b/clientsecurity/
• Forefront Identity Manager: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ms-identity-support/
• Forefront TMG: http://blogs.technet.com/b/isablog/
• Forefront UAG: http://blogs.technet.com/b/edgeaccessblog/