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Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where attempting to remove VMware vCenter from VMM 2012 fails with error 0x8007274D. ===== Symptoms When trying to remove the VMware vCenter 4.1 from System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), the action fails with...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where the SCVMM 2012 console terminates with NullReferenceException after adding an ESX 4.1 host. ===== Symptoms After adding an ESX 4.1 host to System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) fabric, the VMM console may...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one talks about an issue you can run into if your AD groups have circular references. ===== Symptoms After changing the Self-Service Owner of a Virtual Machine (VM) to an AD Security Group in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager...

Here's another KB we published this morning.  This one talks about an issue where doing a host refresh in the SCVMM 2008 admin console generates error 2912 with 0x800700A4: ===== Symptoms In the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) Administrators console, a host refresh may fail with...

When you try to connect to a Virtual Machine (VM) from the System Center Virtual Machine Manager console you may get the following error: "A certification authority could not be contacted for authentication. If you are using a Remote Desktop Gateway with a smart card, try connecting to the remote...

When using the System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 R2 console to share an ISO file, the following error may occur: Error (12700) VMM cannot complete the Hyper-V operation on the %ServerName; server because of the error: User Account does not have sufficient privilege to open attachment...

When trying to install the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Administrator Console, it may fail during the Prerequisites Check with the following error message: To continue, you must complete all prerequisites. Resolve all error conditions listed below and the click Check Again. For more...

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you have a bunch of virtual machines (VMs) where the OWNER value is set to UNKNOWN and you wanted to set a value owner without having to modify them one VM at a time?  If so there’s a PowerShell command that we can use to accomplish this: Get-VM...

Adding a managed host in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 may fail with the following error messages: From the VMM admin console: Error (2927) A Hardware Management error has occurred trying to contact server %server. (Unknown error 0x8033809d)) Recommended Actions Check that WinRM is installed...

Have you ever run into a situation where a failed P2V or other job leaves you with a VM you cannot delete? I have and it usually ends up looking something like this: Recently we’ve had a couple of cases come in where a VM was stuck in the Creating State in the SCVMM 2008 console due to a P2V or...

My buddy Jonathan Jordan recently came across an interesting issue and wrote up a great solution, and since he’s out today I thought I’d take the liberty of posting it. If you ever find yourself in a position where you tried to remove a VM but it ended up being stuck in a state of limbo then this one...

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