Friend of the blog and Microsoft MVP Simon Skinner has been using AVIcode for years and recently he took the time to dissect and document a great introduction to AVIcode 5.7.  He put together 6 different blog posts that do a fantastic job helping...

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Just a heads up on a new AVIcode Knowledge Base article we published today where you're prompted to install .NET Framework when trying to uninstall an AVIcode component: ===== Symptoms When you try to remove a feature of AVIcode 5.6 or an earlier version...

There is no option to manage the VM MAC address using the MED-V Client Interface or workspace policy. During the first time setup phase MED-V automatically deletes the old VM MAC address and then creates new random MAC address. This cannot be overwritten...

Just an FYI that we're now hosting a new AVIcode specific forum on TechNet that will be frequented by members of the product team, support and the MVP community.  If you do any work with AVIcode then you'll definitely want to bookmark this one. You...

I like to draw attention to something that may not be well known and surprise some old ‘die hard’ DPM’ers. You probably are familiar with the ‘rule’ that all protected hosts within a cluster must be protected by the same DPM server! This is does not apply...

Lets say you create virtual machine protection and current conditions allow “ Backup Using Child Partition Snapshot\< VM>” or in short; ‘ online’ protection. Then you change the VM configuration and introduce one of the conditions that prohibit...

Just a heads up on a new AVIcode Knowledge Base article we published today: ===== Symptoms An AVIcode Intercept Studio Agent is installed and configured to monitor an Application or Web Application that was created using .NET 4.0 but no events are being...

I get this question now and then so I thought a quick mention here might make things a little easier if you want to report a bug in one of the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Packs.  You can file bugs against OpsMgr 2007 Management...

Symptoms You are using System Center Essentials (SCE) 2010 and you try to designate a host that is in a workgroup and not in a domain.  The result is that it fails with the following error: Error (2912) An internal error has occurred trying to contact...

Just a quick announcement that the Supported Configurations Statement for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 has been updated to support SQL Server 2008 SP2. For all the details see http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2011/01/07/system-center...

Just an FYI on a new Knowledge Base article we published today: ===== Symptoms When using the AVIcode Intercept Studio SE-Viewer application to review data by date/time ranges, the date picker dialog does not allow any dates with a year beyond 2010 to...

By default, the automatic copying of customizations from the Administrator profile to the default user profile will not occur with SYSPREP if using Windows XP SP2 (with Hotfix 887816) or Windows XP SP3. This is discussed in the following article: http...

I get this question all of the time: ”Is there a more streamlined way on troubleshooting the first-time setup?  It is such a pain in the neck to have to wait and re-download an image just to test one simple command or piece of syntax!” The answer...

This is a general guide on properly setting up and troubleshooting the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr 2007) PXE Service Point.  Common errors that are seen at the PXE boot screen when the PXE Service Point is either not configured...

Say you want to use the DPM “SAN recovery” option. This requires storage management steps for which it is useful to know which Windows disks (LUN’s) hold the associated DPM volumes for a given data source. First a generic recap of the potential ‘DPM SAN...