From the System Center Configuration Manager Team Blog : In many large organizations, network configuration and Active Directory Domain Services are managed separately from Configuration Manager. Changes to the network topology or AD structure must be...

Microsoft’s very own John Vintzel recently posted a couple of fantastic articles discussing Configuration Manager 2012 Distribution Points, PXE Services and Boot Image management so if you missed these you’ll definitely want to stop by and give them a...

Hi everyone, the OS Deployment PM team has posted another great blog about PXE Setup and Boot Image Management.  Here is an excerpt from their intro. “In a previous post, I talked a little about the changes to the distribution point and integration...

Our very own Hector Linares just posted a great article over on his blog talking about how to visualize your storage environment by using a NetApp PowerShell script that generates a Visio diagram with aggregate, volume, and LUN information.  This...

The Configuration Manager team is pleased to release a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Physical to Virtual Migration Toolkit. This tool is designed to assist organizations in their migrations from Configuration Manager 2007, to Configuration...

Hi everyone We unveiled the next version of Opalis at MMS last week, which will be known as System Center Orchestrator.  We also showed for the first time some early builds and did a short demo using Orchestrator. Well, for those of you who could...

Ever since Windows Phone 7 was launched late last year there’s been a growing buzz surrounding Microsoft’s new phone OS, and with the recent announcement that the Windows Phone Marketplace had surpassed 10,000 apps in those 4-5 months and was growing...

The Configuration Manager team is pleased to announce the release of the German and Chinese Simplified Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 2 builds. For German users, the International Client Pack (ICP) with the German (DE-DE) client is also available. German...

Marcel Zehner over at SCSMFAQ.ch has recently built and made available a new Opalis integration pack for SCSM!  For now it includes three new workflow activities: Auto-close Resolved Incidents Auto-close Resolved Problem Export Unsealed Management...

Here’s an FYI on a new System Center Operations Manager 2007 Knowledge Base article we published this morning: ===== Symptoms When running System Center Operations Manager 2007, the Operations Manager SDK Service may fail with the following error: Event...

Looks like the product team is publishing some new support statements for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 this month: Configuration Manager 2007 SP2, R2 and R3 supports Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Microsoft Application Virtualization...

Just an FYI on another new System Center Operations Manager 2007 Knowledge Base article we published this morning: ===== Summary When a System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (SCOM) agent is updated to Cumulative Update 3 (CU3) or Cumulative Update...

Just an FYI on a new Knowledge Base article we published this morning for SCOM 2007: ===== Symptoms The Microsoft Message Queuing 2003 Management Pack (MSMQ 2003 MP) for Operations Manager 2007 R2, Version 6.0.6615.0, has an error in the script "QueueSendTestMessage...

Just an FYI on a new AVIcode Knowledge Base article we published this morning: ===== Symptoms During the installation of the AVIcode 5.6 SEViewer, the following warning is generated when testing the connection to the database: " Specified <SEViewerDBName>...

When using Hard Links for User State Migration, attempting to remove the OSDStateStorePath folder after restoring the users data in a Task Sequence may fail or appear to hang. Note: This is in reference to the steps listed in this article: http://technet...

At the Microsoft Management Summit on Tuesday, 3/22/11, Brad Anderson announced a new capability in System Center 2012 called Project Codename “Concero”. Before I actually talk about what it is, let me first talk about what the word “Concero”...

Easy as pie. Like taking candy from a baby. A walk in the park. Like shooting fish in a barrel. You hear those phrases all the time. But how often do you hear them applied to installing server applications in a datacenter? Sure, maybe you have some...

This week we are extremely pleased to release Beta 2 of Configuration Manager 2012.  We thought it would be helpful to provide a technical introduction to the product, and share with you some places and programs you can use to get your hands on it...

When using a System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 server, after import the Management Pack for Windows 2008 Print Servers you may find that it’s only discovering Print Servers for Windows 2008 and not for Windows 2008 R2 servers. So what’s going on...

I am very excited to be able to post this article, welcoming System Center Orchestrator to the System Center suite! As was communicated by Brad Anderson in Tuesday’s MMS keynote and on the Nexus news bulletin , System Center Orchestrator is the official...

Microsoft is proud to announce the Release Candidate of System Center Advisor, formerly known as Microsoft codename “Atlanta.” This new cloud service enables customers to assess the configuration of their servers so they can proactively...

Virtualization Nation, We’re having a great week at a sold-out MMS 2011 in Las Vegas! To say it’s a busy week would be a huge understatement. Honestly, there’s so much happening, I can’t blog about all these topics and begin...

Did you hear the news?  ConfigMgr 2012 will support Windows Phone 7, Symbian, iOS (iPhones and iPads) and Android-based devices , and the new Beta 2 is available for download starting today.  From the download site: Consumerization is a growing...

Just a quick FYI on a great how-to article over on the TechNet Wiki that describes how to remove the SSA component from a machine that has FCS installed using MOM/SCOM 2007.  You can check it out here . J.C. Hornbeck | System Center Knowledge Engineer...

TrimTransfer, as well as revertible workspaces will not be available in version 2 of MED-V. With a host being Windows 7 and a Workspace being Windows XP, there is not much use for it. As you read more about the new features of MED-V v2, you will also...