Kenon Owens joined Symon Perriman on the Edge stage to talk about the new features and focus of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, which as we mentioned a couple days ago is available in beta today. New to SCVMM 2012 is the concept of clouds...

On behalf of the SCVMM product team and I am proud to announce the availability of SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 RTM. Support for new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Dynamic Memory: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V supports...

On behalf of the whole System Center Virtual Machine Manager product team it is with great pleasure we’re announcing the public release availability of SCVMM 2012 Beta . With this release you will be able to do: Fabric Management ...

Just a heads up on a new System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Knowledge Base article we published this morning.  This one talks about an issue where when doing a P2V it may hang at ~70% and the resulting VM boots to a stop 7B: Symptoms Attempting...

Just one week after Microsoft Management Summit 2011 (MMS), Microsoft Learning will be hosting an exclusive three-day Jump Start class specially tailored for VMware and Microsoft virtualization technology professionals. Registration for “ Microsoft Virtualization...

The Microsoft System Center team is pleased to announce an updated release of VMMSSP: System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 SP1. This new version provides users the ability to import virtual machines created outside the portal...

Just a quick note to let you know we updated the following Knowledge Base article this morning: KB2397711 - Recommended hotfixes for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Added is a recommendation to install the latest version of the System Center...

When using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, a Virtual Machine (VM) will report an unsupported state after adding multiple GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks. The status changes to ' Unsupported VM Configuration ' or ' Unsupported Cluster Configuration...

As of today, the list of issues that are resolved are as follows: Issue 1 Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) Tip alerts are not displayed in the SCVMM Admin Console if the alert resolution state is set to a value other than 0 in System Center...

Our very own Vishwa Kumbalimutt posted a great article on using SCVMM for VDI deployments.  If this isn’t something you’ve considered before, or if it is and you’re planning on doing it soon, you’ll definitely want to give this one a read: While...

Hyper-V Question of the Day: Q: Can you tell me more about Dynamic Memory, such as: What is Dynamic Memory? What problems does it solve? Is Dynamic Memory good for Servers and VDI? How does it compare to VMware’s Overcommit? How does Dynamic Memory work...

For those of you who sign-in to comment on the TechNet Blogs, there is a change coming on January 27 th 1:00 pm (PST) regarding user accounts and profiles. Please click here to read about this change. If you have questions please leave a comment on the...

When SCVMM is not ‘cooperating’ and no amount of digging through event logs, support articles, and forums is helping… it’s time for a trace.  Here's how to do just that: http://blogs.technet.com/b/jonjor/archive/2011/01/07/vmmtrace-simplified-scvmm...

The VMM 2008 R2 SP1 RC has been available for about a week now and hopefully you’ve had a chance to download it. If not, jump over to Microsoft Connect and search for SCVMM and get your download started in the background while you read this walkthrough...

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)...

Here's another new System Center Virtual Machine Manager Knowledge Base article we just published this morning.  If you're trying to do a P2V and it's failing out with 2910, 458 or 3142 errors then you'll want to check this one out: ===== Symptoms...

With the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 RC now available it wouldn’t be hard to guess that an update to SCVMM 2008 R2 wasn’t far behind...  well here it is! We’re pleased to announce SCVMM 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate is now ready to download...

Symptoms Adding a Host to System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM 2008) fails with a variation of Error (2916): Error (2916) VMM is unable to complete the request. The connection to the agent ServerA.contoso.com was lost. (The WinRM client cannot...

Just a heads up on a new KB article we published on how to determine if a cluster is over-committed in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008.  If you do any kind of admin work with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 you'll want to add...

Our very own Jonathan Jordan just posted a great article describing a System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 support incident he worked recently where a small percentage of machines were failing during the Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion process...

When using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM 2008), a Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion of a Windows Server 2003 system fails due to the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) on the P2V source machine. You will receive an error similar to...

The Microsoft System Center team is pleased to announce the launch of System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 (SSP) . Download the SSP Now! The System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 (SSP) is a fully supported...

Our very own Jonathan Jordan posted a great script that makes the job of keeping your Hosts and SCVMM Servers up to date simple.  I pasted a short intro to his post below: As a Microsoft Support Professional I’ve learned that Windows Update is the...

The Top Solutions RSS feeds pair the latest hot customer issues with the best Microsoft solution content, all delivered right to your desktop. The feeds will help keep you ahead of the curve by alerting you to potential problems and pointing you directly...

Our very own Jonathan Jordan has another great post on his blog about PowerShell and SCVMM.  If you happened to miss it I have an intro and link below: PowerShell. You keep meaning to learn it. You just need a push. Maybe a CubeNote (Cheat Sheet...