The self-service portal right now always displays datetime values in GMT since we don’t have a way to know which time zone the requesting user is in.  We try to make it clear that the datetime is in GMT time zone like this: Unfortunately, I think...

If you’ve been following the blogging efforts of the System Center support and product teams for any length of time then you know we have quite a few different blogs based on the technology or product we focus on.  For example, we have the App-V...

Hi everyone, Konstantin Zoryn here, and today I’d like to talk about importing and exporting Templates in SCVMM 2012.  System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (VMM 2012) allows creating service and virtual machine templates and there are many...

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012 has everything you need to manage your Server App-V packages. You can add Server App-V packages to the VMM library, create application profiles, and deploy packages to your VMs by using SCVMM’s...

The self-service portal is built as an ASP.Net web site that runs as an application in Internet Information Services (IIS).  This web site uses what is called an “app pool” (short for application pool) to run.  You can have many applications...

I just wanted to let you know about a couple of our System Center support engineers that were recently profiled on Microsoft’s Customer Service & Support (CSS) People First blog.  There’s a chance that you might have talked with one of these...

Hi everyone, Alaks Sevugan here, and today I’m going to talk about updating your Services.  We have already seen how image based composition makes deployment a breeze, however most of you probably deploy an application once - so the real power in...

Hi everyone, Alaks Sevugan here.  So, have been following my previous posts on Services Overview and Service Templates ? If not, this will be a good time to review the blog posts. In this post, I will be covering how to customize and deploy a Service...

A few weeks back I announced the System Center Blog Aggregator app for Windows Phone 7 and today I wanted to let you know that it was now available for all you Android users out there as well.  I won’t go into all the details as you can read that...

Hi everyone, Marc Reynolds here and I wanted to take a minute and show you how to use a new feature that came with the March DPM hotfix rollup package that allows users that are not local administrators on a protected client to recover their protected...

Here’s a heads up on yet another cool article I found over on the TechNet Wiki today regarding System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012. This is another one written by Microsoft Partner Kristian Nese and it talks about creating Failover Clusters with...

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 creating both logical and virtual networks with SCVMM 2012: So far, I am really impressed by all the improvements...

Hi everyone, my name is Alaks Sevugan (Senior SCVMM Program Manager) and today I’d like to take a minute to discuss Service Templates in SCVMM 2012.  Service Templates are being introduced in VMM 2012, to capture the Service model definitions. Service...

I have had a couple of cases recently that involve running a task sequence from the Run Advertised Program (RAP) Control Panel applet which has a large number of software package installation steps (usually over 200).  What happens in these cases...

Here’s another new System Center Operations Manager 2007 Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one tells you how to fix and prevent an issue where the Remedy Connector for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 does not populate the...

Hi, Shane Brasher here, and I just wanted to let you know about a new video I released. This video covers System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 and how to deploy and configure the Self-Service Recovery Tool (SSRT).  System Center Data Protection...

The Microsoft TechEd Twitter Army is looking for recruits to twitter off the show floor during our premier TechEd event running May 16-19 in Atlanta. If you’re going to the show and want your opinions heard, be sure to check in at the Social Media...

The folks over on the Configuration Manager product team blog just posted a fantastic article on what Client Health is and how to use it in System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 2: It’s often the case that many customer-reported issues with a...

If you attempt to install the MED-V v2 Host Agent while the MED-V v1 client is installed and a MED-V v1 workspace is currently running, you will get the following error message: The MED-V ToGo USB drive was not properly ejected. This may result in loss...

When installing the MED-V 2.0 Host Agent, you must first deploy the Virtual PC components. If you have not installed Windows 7 Service pack 1, the requirements are straight forward: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg548583.aspx The Virtual...

Hi Everyone Our resident 8 minute video creator and Blogger extraordinaire Charles Joy has created and published a new Integration Pack for PowerShell. You can read Charles full blog post about the IP here . In Charles own words: If you have...

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 creating Hyper-V hosts with SCVMM 2012: Several new deployment options in VMM 2012 make the life of an...

I recently encountered a question from a customer who wanted to be able to set the computer name, and also be able to have their Desktop Technicians select software to be installed during an Operating System Deployment for their upcoming Windows 7 refresh...

Here’s another new System Center Operations Manager 2007 Knowledge Base article we published this morning.  This one tells you how to fix and prevent an issue where incorrect Exchange server status can be rolled up to OpsMgr 2007 when multiple domains...

Hi everyone, my name is Alaks Sevugan (Senior SCVMM Program Manager) and today I’d like to go over the concept of Services in SCVMM 2012.  A Service is the deployed instance of a collection of Virtual machines with applications, OS roles and features...