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Summary : Piotr Gardy , a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Poland, provides us with recommendations on why (and how) a ConfigMgr database should be hosted on its own dedicated SQL Server instance. For more useful tidbits, please check out Piotr’s Polish language TechNet blog . ...

If you are attending this year’s Microsoft Management Summit ( MMS 2013 ), you can’t miss these sessions.  Created by industry experts from Microsoft Services Premier Field Engineering, these sessions promise to deliver some of the best notes from the field from the perspective of some of Microsoft...

Summary : This article was contributed by Amber Goins , a Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) SP1 introduced important and often-requested new Anti-Tampering features for the Antimalware service, and Amber takes us through a practical tour of how to troubleshoot...

Jeff Ingalls , an Identity Management PFE based out of the U.S. West Region, handles proactive onsite support and training for Microsoft’s Identity products, such as Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 (FIM.) Over the past year he has been working to bring a FIM Health Check offering to our Premier customers...

Hello everyone, my name is Yong Rhee and I’m a Premier Field Engineer.  In this post, I’m excited to discuss a new Premier Support offering called Risk Assessment Program (RAP) as a Service ( or RaaS for short ). For those that are not familiar with RAP, it is a Microsoft Services Premier Support...

Our colleague from the United Kingdom, Sergio Carrilho , writes about System Center technologies. In a recent blog post , he describes some nuances of working with runbooks (sort of like workflows) when using System Center Orchestrator. I found it intriguing and it helped me understand what Orchestrator...

Mark M* has even more information to help you address Active Directory time rollback problems, over at AskPFEPlat . I’ll paste his table of contents below: Recovering from a time rollback is a complex situation so read each step carefully and don’t skip ahead or you’ll make the...

First-time blogger Arnold Gagnon describes Content Management Storage Options in System Center Configuration Manager 2012. The content library is the main storage location for Configuration Manager. It stores all content files for software updates, applications, operating system deployment, and so on...

PFE Antoni Hanus posted a getting-started-quickly guide on System Center Service Management for Incident Management . System Center 2012 - Service Manager (SCSM) includes Incident Management, Service Request fulfillment, Problem Management, Change Management, Release Management and Activity Management...

Michel Audet , a Premier Field Engineer from Microsoft Canada, tackles the very important issue of ‘alert storms’ by prioritizing certain workloads over others. He shows how this is done by using the ‘Distributed Applications’ feature in Microsoft Operations Manager. Distributed Applications, DA, (not...

That was my reaction, anyway! According to Matt from ConfigMgrDogs , yep, we do that! With all of the excitement surrounding the Beta 1 release of ConfigMgr 2012 SP1, there’s been a fairly big feature that's been rarely spoken about… Deploying iOS/Android apps to ‘un-managed’ devices! This post wont...

Monsieur Holman brings word of a Base OS MP Update . Lets talk for a minute about Windows Server 2012.  This new server OS has hit RTM already.  However – initially this OS version was only going to be supported as an agent monitored system for SCOM 2012.  There was to be no support for...

Article written by Santos Martinez , a US-based Microsoft Premier Field Engineer and resident ConfigNinja . Do you want to expand your stand-alone System Center Configuration Manager 2012 (a.k.a ConfigMgr) primary site into an hierarchy? So you get to the point where your company starts expanding...

While filling us in on his weekend plans, Rhoderick accidentally lets slip that System Center 2012 SP1 Beta is now available . This is an interesting release as it is adding support for Windows Server 2012.  In the case of SCVMM 2012 SP1, it means that it can only be installed on the RTM version...

Saud from the UK Manageability Guys has been helping customers migrate from WSUS to System Center Configuration Manager 2012 . For desktop migrations, customers are usually happy to take all updates or the majority of updates and just start fresh. For servers, they want to be sure that they only...

Written by Mark Farrugia, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer.  Continuing on from his prior post .  System Center Operations Manager (a.k.a. OpsMgr) provides a facility to share out either the rich or web console to your different support groups within your operational organization. ...

Now that System Center 2012 Configuration Manager is out, you may think what should I do or how I make sure I’m ready to interview for the new product. The first think I will recommend is looking at this blog that I put a while ago, Do you want to pass exam 70-243? After reading that and...

Written by Michel Audet, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Monitoring how much data is stored on a particular drive and displaying it in a graph and/or report format is often requested by customers running Microsoft System Center Operations Manager . Writing a standalone VBScript or PowerShell script...

Written by Mark Farrugia, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. In my previous post I started down the path of wanting to create some custom counters in Operations Manager 2007, but I could not get started until I had downloaded and installed the authoring console for Microsoft System Center Operations...

Written by Mark Farrugia, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. I recently switched disciplines in the Microsoft Premier Field Engineering (PFE) organization, changing from a Platforms-focused position to a System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr) focused role. I discovered during my ramp up that...

Written by Frank Pawetzki, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer The Issue: This happened to me today on my Windows 7 machine: the installation of Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection ( Release Candidate ) failed with error code 0x80070643 . The event log showed this error: Log Name:     ...

Written by Neil Harrison , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. I often see questions on various Microsoft technical forums requesting information relating to the design of infrastructure to support new Microsoft products in their respective environments. This leads me to believe that there are a lot of...

Written by Cheng Pei Koay, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. I was recently trying to migrate System Center Data Protection Manager ( DPM ) Data Sources to a new storage location and faced a number of challenges, so I’d to share my experiences to help others avoid any potentially unnecessary...

Written by Neil Harrison , Premier Field Engineer. When System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (OpsMgr) was released, one of the most interesting new features was the addition of Cross Platform monitoring or, in other words, Unix/Linux monitoring. Having been involved with Enterprise monitoring for...

Written by Kip Ng , Principal Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. In System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr), you can install the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 and it has a task sequence template that you can use to automate the OS deployment, SysPrep it and then Capture the OS as...