Here’s a heads up on another interesting article I found over in the TechNet Wiki.  This one is by Microsoft Partner Kristian Nese and it talks about Dynamic Optimization and Power Optimization in SCVMM 2012: VMM brought us a lot of new stuff. We...

Here’s an issue I ran into the other day and since I didn’t see a lot documented about it I thought I’d go ahead and post the fix here. Symptoms Using System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 to backup a SQL database fails with the following error:...

Hi Everyone, this is Nitin Bhat and Hector Linares from the fabric management team in SCVMM. While talking with TAP customers we got some great questions that we wanted to share with you all. ·Q: How does the SMI-S connection occur between VMM2012 and...

Operations Manager Integration and Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) Background System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2 uses System Center Operations Manager 2007 to monitor the health and availability of the virtual machines and...

Operations Manager Integration and Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) Background System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2 uses System Center Operations Manager 2007 to monitor the health and availability of the virtual machines and...

Isolation and State Separation are two very important concepts in the world of application virtualization, but we throw those terms around a lot without really explaining what we mean by them. I’m going to attempt to explain what those concepts mean to...

Here’s an issue I ran into the other day and since I didn’t see a lot documented about it I thought I’d go ahead and post the fix here.  If you’re getting an Access Denied error when trying to connect to a client using the Remote Tools then here...

Just a quick FYI on another interesting article by Leandro Carvalho that showed up in the TechNet Wiki yesterday.  This one discusses how to use VM Templates in SCVMM 2012 to deploy a server incredibly quickly and easily: Automation! This is a word...

Here’s another interesting article that showed up in the TechNet Wiki yesterday, published by Microsoft Partner and MVP Leandro E. Carvalho. This one discusses how to use the Dynamic Optimization feature in SCVMM 2012 to save energy and save money: System...

On March 22nd at MMS 2011 this year, we announced the Beta for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 . Our customers are telling us it is about the “Service”. They want to better manage their infrastructure while providing more levels of self-service...

Consider the following scenario: You configure a maintenance window for a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) client. You configure an advertisement to run on the client computer within the maintenance window. The client...

Last week I posted a link to an article written by Microsoft Partner and MVP Leandro E. Carvalho that talked about building your own private cloud using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 and now he’s back at it with part 2.  In this installment...

Do you use Windows Intune today, or have plans for using it in the future?  It seems that most of you are considering the advantages that Intune offers so if you’d like the opportunity to influence the direction we take with Windows Intune, or if...

Just a quick heads up on a new Microsoft Application Virtualization Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one shows you how to upgrade the Microsoft App-V client from 4.5 to 4.6 silently using an ESD: ===== In order to retain the current...

This is the much anticipated version that has been updated to support Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 so if you’ve been waiting on this one then your wait is now over: The Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 monitoring management pack is designed to be used for...

Greetings Everyone, I am Greg Cusanza, Program Manager on the SCVMM team.  Today I am going to blog about one of the interesting new features of VMM 2012, which  is the ability to control the power state of a host. We use both in-band methods...

Server App-V, a core feature of SCVMM 2012, was created with one purpose in mind: making deployment and management of datacenter applications dramatically simpler. Server App-V provides a predictable, repeatable and consistent deployment/management experience...

Microsoft’s John Vintzel is at it again with another great post on the System Center Configuration Manager 2012 beta.  This one covers monitoring the compliance of content and a new feature to validate content in the Configuration Manager 2012 infrastructure...

The Dutch Hyper-V Community was founded in 2008 by Jaap Wesselius during one of the first Hyper-V deployments in The Netherlands. Jaap was quickly accompanied by Hans Vredevoort. Both Jaap and Hans are awarded with the MVP award. Jaap has been an Exchange...

Hey everyone, the PM’s are blogging again , this is a really solid topic as well.  We wanted to make you aware of it over here on this blog.  Their intro: In the last blog we covered Distribution Point Groups and the new ways to distribute and...

Marcel Zehner has created a new Opalis integration pack for SCSM.  So far it includes the following activities: New Features in V1.5: New Activity "Autoclose completed Change Requests" New Icons for better visibility New Activity "Autoclose...

Here’s another article written by Microsoft Partner and MVP Leandro E. Carvalho that’s over in the TechNet Wiki. This one talks about managing and installing Microsoft Application Virtualization packages: After the sequencing process of applications through...

Here’s another article written by Microsoft Partner and MVP Leandro E. Carvalho that’s over in the TechNet Wiki. This one walks you through creating a new Workspace Package using Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization 2.0: Before users begin to use...

Here’s another interesting article that showed up in the TechNet Wiki yesterday, published by Microsoft Partner and MVP Leandro E. Carvalho.  This one discusses how to manage the size of your VirtualManagerDB_log: Ok, you have had your SCVMM server...

Hi Folks - here's a re-post of Ed Anderson's piece which went out on the virtualization blog today. I thought it was a good read for System Center blog as well. Enjoy. In speaking with folks interested in deploying virtualization, I tend to hear two...