So I downloaded and installed the IE10 Platform Preview today and started to check out what's new. One of the tests Microsoft provides is called PaintBall. I ran this test using IE10 and noticed that the test displays "seconds" and "paitballs per minute...

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772269.aspx Includes KMS client setup keys. Useful when creating SCVMM Guest OS profiles. --snippet-- Manually Activate a KMS Client By default, KMS clients automatically attempt to activate themselves...

When creating a new VM from scratch with a blank VHD or a VHD with a non-Windows OS , you will get the warning (VMM does peak inside the VHD as part of the creation process to determine this). This warning can be ignored. To have the VM autostart after...

Hello everyone, So the VMM team finally announced BETA at MMS in March. One request we heard from you during the event is the need to visualize storage. VMM 2012 goes a long way to integrate storage automation into VMM using SMI-S based providers....

VMM uses Template objects to deploy new VMs from templates stored in the Library. To automate the provisioning of new VMs from templates, VMM can pass the answer file to Windows during sysprep customization/specialization (this is why you create Guest...

Sysinterals recently released a free P2V. The comparison table below is for your reference to help highlight the difference in features and functionality between the two. The table is not meant to pin one tool against the other (i.e. who is better). The...

Many customers ask how they can replicate VMM templates to other Library servers (within a single VMM instance). A template is really a collection of properties stored in the database and pointers to VHDs stored on the Library server (exposed through...

When you perform a V2V from a VMware host and I get the following error: Error (12709) The operation on did not complete successfully because of the error: Server sent disconnect message: type 2 (protocol error : too many authentication failures for...

SNIA SMI Lab kicked off the 4 th and final plugfest for 2011 this week. Microsoft is here along with several storage partners. Earlier today, we started testing VMM 2012 with a SMI-S based storage provider and we tried to allocate a LUN to a host group...

http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithcombs/archive/2011/09/09/system-center-virtual-machine-manager-vmm-2012-rc-now-available-for-download.aspx?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=hypervking Keith Combs - System Center Virtual Machine...

VMM2008 will block P2V on source machines with an SSL cert registered on 443. To change the default port used by VMM, please follow these precise steps. 1. Go to Regedit->HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Server...

Check out the following document for a set of public PIDs that you can use in the OS profile: http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/5/f/45fb677a-c215-442e-afd0-419e08b6c5d1/Volume%20Activation%202.0%20Deployment%20Guide.doc KMS Client Setup Keys...

Great post from Jeffrey Snover Windows Server 8 is a cloud optimized OS. You’ve probably heard that phrase or similar comments a lot recently since we introduced Windows Server 8 last month (see Bill Laing’s blog post .) Let’s...

The product team is still investigating this issue to come up with a viable solution. Its worth noting that this is a change in VMware's API behavior and not a directly VMM bug. While helping CSS root cause this issue, I found this forum post: ...

VMM 2008 automates the uninstall of Virtual Server VM Additions (version 13.813+) and installation Hyper-V Integration Components with no user interaction. Two ways to take advantage of this feature - 1) If you have a VM that was running under Virtual...

Hi, I am Hector Linares, Senior Program Manager on the SCVMM team. This blog is an overview of the storage automation feature set in System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012. The goal of this feature is to simplify and automate the discovery,...

SC 2012 VMM ships with a new service called the Storage Management Service which communicates with SMI-S based providers from vendors like NetApp, EMC, HP, and IBM. To help you troubleshoot problems, SCVMM include lots of storage related tracing information...

VMM P2V agent does not like the App-V virtual drive. I was able to repro the following issue using App-V 4.6 package. Analysis P2V agent installs correctly on source machine… but when it enumerates local volumes, an exception gets raised...

This is from an internal question I replied to. This is a simply script given as a starting point that can be extended. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

At TechEd Berlin I had the opportunity to present a VMM performance troubleshooting case study in Iftekhar Hussain's VIR311 session. You can hear the presentation http://bit.ly/aQ11bP starting at 50:10. Symptoms Reported On our production server...

Mastering Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 by Michael Michael and Hector Linares is now available on Amazon.com. Order your copy today. http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Virtual-Machine-Manager-2008/dp/0470463325/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid...

Hey everyone, There is so much random stuff on the web these days. Some content is good for a laugh but then there is that content that leaves you scratching your head. Over at v_Critical, looks like their investigatory prowess has uncovered that something...

If you need to quickly recover a VM that has snapshots but no export file, you can use the commands in SCVMM R2 that enable rapid provisioning. In this case you are creating a new VM from the latest AVHD. NOTE: This approach does not recreate the...

Hello everyone, For all of those attending MMS 2012, hope you are having a great week! As promised here is the PowerShell session (FI-B322), script used during the session. #set script variables $vmNamePrefix = "COMBINEDDEMO" #set random number...

VMM has a new cmdlet to get the next available MAC from the static pool: New-PhysicalAddress. When creating a VM, the calling script can first see the next MAC that available in the static pool and then commit it as part of the provisioning process. ...