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Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about troubleshooting an issue where adding a SAN storage provider in VMM 2012 fails with SMI-S Error 26100. ===== Symptoms When attempting to discover a SAN storage provider in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) using the...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one covers how to troubleshoot issues when adding a Hyper-V host in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager. ===== Summary This article covers how to troubleshoot issues when adding a Hyper-V host in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published that talks about how to troubleshoot the “Needs Attention” and “Not Responding” host status in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager. This is one you’ll probably want to add to your Favorites. ===== Summary This article discusses how to troubleshoot...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where attempting to change the ownership of a VM in VMM 2012 to a user who is a member of the Self-Service User role created by the VMM Administrator fails. ===== Symptoms When the VMM delegated administrator tries to change...

This rollup includes updates for App Controller, Data Protection Manager (DPM), Operations Manager (OpsMgr), Orchestrator, Service Manager (SCSM) and Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). Download links, installation instructions and the list of issues fixed for each component are documented in the following...

Here’s a new System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Knowledge Base article we recently published. This one tells you how to fix an issue where adding a Citrix XenServer host on VMM fails with error 2916 (0x8033810f). ===== SYMPTOMS Adding a Citrix XenServer host on System Center 2012 Virtual Machine...

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 deploying a service template using System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager fails with error 421. ===== Symptoms When deploying a service template using System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), the job fails...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where Ntbackup on Windows Server 2003 fails with "Error: The device reported an error to the request to write data to media". ===== Symptoms Consider the following scenario: · System Center Virtual Machine Manager...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where an Operations Manager AD Replication Monitor generates an "Invalid Script Parameter Configuration" error message. ===== Symptoms You are able to successfully add NetApp storage to System Center 2012 Virtual...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one lists all of the recommended hotfixes for Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager. Please note that the Virtual Machine Manager Configuration Analyzer (VMMCA) is currently being update to include this new, updated list. ===== Summary...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where installing VMM 2012 fails with “ Unable to create or access the Active Directory container CN=VMMDKM,DC=Domain,DC=local. Access is denied. Specify the distinguished name for the container and verify that you have genericRead...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where placing a highly available virtual machine on an ESXi Cluster in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager fails. ===== Symptoms When trying to place a highly available virtual machine on an ESXi 4.0 cluster managed...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where Regional settings default to English when deploying a virtual machine using a template on System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager. ===== Symptoms Consider the following scenario: · A virtual machine is configured...

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...

4/11/2013 - NOTE: This article has been updated. Please see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2708922 for the latest version. ===== Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one describes an issue where deploying templates to create new VMs using System Center Virtual...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one describes an App Controller issue where viewing a service fails with “Retrieved data is incomplete”. ===== Symptoms On System Center 2012 App Controller, a self-service user is unable to view a service that includes a computer tier with a load...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one describes an event you may see when deleting a Favorite in AVIcode or System Center 2012 Operations Manager. ===== Symptoms Scenario: A Hyper-V host is managed by System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) and it is hosting service templates...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one discusses how VMM does not support GPT disks on P2V targets and that to successfully migrate a machine with a GPT disk, you must first convert the disk to MBR format. ===== Symptoms A physical to virtual conversion (P2V) may fail in Microsoft...

Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2012 contains a number of fixes for System Center 2012 Operations Manager, App Controller and Virtual Machine Manager, including cross platform fixes and support for Oracle Solaris 11. I won’t go into all the details here but you can see what’s included as well as get...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where deploying a DAC pack in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager fails if using a named SQL instance. ===== Symptoms When deploying a SQL DAC pack (Data Tiered Application) using System Center 2012 Virtual Machine...

We are very happy to announce that seven of the Product Solution Centers on http://support.microsoft.com are featuring new Top Solutions sections that pull dynamically from the Top Solutions RSS feeds . The Top Solutions are usually listed on the page for the Key Resources tab. The following solution...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one talks about an issue you can run into when setting up a cluster using the Japanese version of Virtual Machine Manager. ===== Symptoms When using the Japanese version of System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), the Install...

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 a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one shows you how to quickly fix an issue where a P2V in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager fails when using NIC teaming. ===== Symptoms When using System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) to perform an offline P2V (Physical...