MOF and Service Management at Microsoft
Your home for discussion of Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and IT service management
New MOF Guide—Now Available for Download
The Microsoft Operations Framework team is pleased to announce that the Managing and Operating a...
Date: 07/16/2012
MOF in Multiple Languages
Did you know that MOF materials are also available in Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Japanese?...
Date: 05/25/2011
Get to work with the updated MOF Quick Start Kit for IT Pros
The MOF IT Pro Quick Start Kit has been updated with new materials and references to the latest MOF...
Date: 04/25/2011
Apply MOF guidance to Microsoft products and technologies
Last month we announced the release of our most recent beta materials—thanks to those of you...
Date: 07/27/2010
Corrected URL for MOF beta materials on Microsoft Connect
The previous post about the latest MOF beta package had the incorrect link. Try this one instead....
Date: 06/28/2010
Fresh MOF beta materials ready for download on Microsoft Connect!
Our latest collection of beta releases are now available for download. We hope you’ll take the...
Date: 06/25/2010
Use new MOF guidance to facilitate organizational improvement
We’re pleased to announce our latest releases—a collection of workbooks, guides, and...
Date: 06/15/2010
Accelerate your transition to the Dynamic Datacenter with MOF
We’re excited to announce the release of new materials centered on service management of the...
Date: 06/10/2010
New MOF workbooks, guides, and action plans for organizational improvement now available for beta download
We’re pleased to announce that new MOF materials are now available for beta download. We designed...
Date: 05/06/2010
Latest MOF Reliability Workbooks now available for download
In January of this year we unveiled the new MOF Technology Library, which was created to address the...
Date: 04/28/2010
New Releases: MOF Management Reviews and MOF Service Mapping guides
After incorporating great feedback from our beta participants, we’re excited to announce that two...
Date: 04/07/2010
MOF 4.0 Foundation Course Now Available for Beta Download
Looking for the tools to deliver effective service management training? If any of the following...
Date: 03/02/2010
Start getting the most from your Microsoft technologies with the new MOF Reliability Workbooks
We’re pleased to announce our latest release, a new series of Reliability Workbooks. These initial...
Date: 01/20/2010
Getting Started with MOF Released to Web
Thanks in part to your participation at every stage of its development, a new MOF implementation...
Date: 12/03/2009
Beta has released for "Getting Started with MOF 4.0"!
Picture this: you’ve just listened to a captivating presentation on MOF 4.0, and you’re all fired up...
Date: 11/05/2009
Validate organizational release readiness for Windows 7 with the new MOF Action Plan
Ready for Windows 7? Let us help. We introduced a new series of MOF Action Plans earlier this year...
Date: 10/22/2009
Using MOF - Case Studies at Saudi Post
We’re pleased to announce the release of two new case studies sharing a recent MOF success story....
Date: 10/06/2009
MOF Action Plan- Redistributing the Workload
The Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) team is excited to announce the first release in a new...
Date: 07/30/2009
MOF Framework Comparison Guides Released
We’re continuing to extend core MOF content with two new companion guides: Cross Reference ITIL®V3...
Date: 06/01/2009
Planning for ISO/IEC 20000: A MOF Companion Guide (Open Beta Now Available)
The Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) team is extending the MOF 4.0 core content with the release...
Date: 05/03/2009
Planning for Software-plus-Services: A MOF Companion Guide (Now Available for Download)
The MOF team has released a new guide, Planning for Software-plus-Services: A MOF Companion Guide....
Date: 05/03/2009
Moving On....
I realize the MOF blog has been quiet recently and I wanted to let everyone know why. As the Quick...
Date: 03/26/2009
MOF IT Pro Quick Start Kit Now Available for Download
The MOF team has recently released a new tool to get you up and running with MOF 4.0. The MOF IT Pro...
Date: 03/26/2009
Companion Guides: IT Compliance & Software + Services
I've received several follow-up e-mails asking where the Companion Guides can be found and two of...
Date: 12/10/2008
MOF 4.0 Now Under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License - Freely Adapt MOF for your Business Needs
Hi All, One of the first things people realize when looking at implementing a service management...
Date: 09/12/2008
Announcing: The Release of Microsoft Operations Framework 4.0 and the new MOF Online Forums
Hi all. I wanted to let everyone know about two exciting announcements. At MMS, the MOF team has...
Date: 05/02/2008
MOF PM position filled
I wanted to let everyone know that at this time we are no longer looking to hire another Program...
Date: 04/18/2008
Looking to hire a MOF Program Manager
We currently have an immediate need for a MOF PM to join the team here in Redmond, WA. I have posted...
Date: 03/12/2008
Project Hana (MOF v4) updates Beta Release
The Frameworks team continued its journey along the winding road to Hana by releasing a significant...
Date: 02/11/2008
MOF Update = Project Hana
The MOF Update has now moved into the earliest stages of our beta / Request for Comment period and...
Date: 01/30/2008
The Plan and Optimize Phase of the IT Service Lifecycle
Picking up from the last posting where I detailed our overall approach to the IT Service Lifecycle...
Date: 11/25/2007
MOF v.4 IT Service Lifecycle Defined
Development has continued at a frenzied pace over the past couple of months on the MOF update and we...
Date: 11/14/2007
We now resume our regularly scheduled broadcasts
I wanted to apologize for the perhaps disturbing lack of posts over the previous several weeks, but...
Date: 11/14/2007
Temporary Interruption to the Regularly Scheduled Broadcast
Since I had promised a quick follow-up posting to the Operations and Support blog from last week, I...
Date: 09/14/2007
The Operations and Support Phase of the MOF Lifecycle
We have now spent some time talking about IT Governance as well as the Business IT Planning phase of...
Date: 09/06/2007
The Purpose of IT Business Planning in the New MOF
IT business planning is an increasing important topic in the world of today's IT professional. We...
Date: 08/24/2007
Announcement: Windows Vista Service Lifecycle Management now available!
For a slight change of pace, I wanted to let everyone know that today we have officially released...
Date: 08/20/2007
What does IT governance mean to us?
There has been a lot of really good discussion and follow-up commentary around my IT governance...
Date: 08/16/2007
Our Mission Statement
Our Mission Statement: Ensure that IT does the right thing at the right time for the right reasons....
Date: 08/14/2007
Who is the audience?
Today someone posed the rather straightforward question of who is the true audience for MOF, and why...
Date: 08/10/2007
Why focus on IT Governance?
You may wonder why a service management framework, or service lifecycle, would be built on the...
Date: 08/09/2007
Welcome to the conversation
One of the goals I had when I first came to the Frameworks team at Microsoft was to open up the...
Date: 08/09/2007