Just a quick heads up on a new KB solution we published today. The solution describes an issue where when using system Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM), a P2V conversion of Windows Server 2003 R2 may fail with Error 13257 trying to patch the...

We recently published a new System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 solution and thought you might appreciate a heads up.  The issue is one where on System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 or SCVMM 2008 R2, duplicate virtual machines...

Here's a quick heads up on a webcast we did a couple weeks ago.  Even though the initial date has passed you can catch an instant replay at the link below. ===== Language(s): English. Product(s): Hyper-V,Microsoft technologies. Audience(s): IT Decision...

This Knowledge Base article actually got published a week or two ago but after looking through the site it doesn't look like I posted it here.  Just as an FYI, here's the symptom and cause and a link to the KB so you can read it in it's entirety...

Network Location : This represents the logical network identity for an individual physical network adapter. The Network Location Awareness (NLA) service provider on the Windows-based virtual machine host is used to return this information for every active...

We often hear questions either on the internal alias or from customers about SCVMM and Domain Controllers so here are a few of the common scenarios and questions and the real world answers: Scenario #1 VMM server is in Domain_A and there is a member...

Just a quick heads up on a new Knowledge Base article we published recently: ===== Symptoms: Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server virtual machines display an Operating System property of 'Unknown.' If the Operating System property is set manually,...

  Did you know that you can use the tag cloud to quickly find VMM-related content in the TechNet Library? Tags have been added to all of the topics in the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and VMM 2008 R2 node of the library. Here is a current...

Help customers keep their virtualized environment more secure and compliant – while saving time and money. The Beta for Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 3.0 is now available. This next version of the tool builds on the version 2.1’s functionality, adding...

There are many updates available for SCVMM and the technologies it manages. Staying up to date can be difficult. There is a tool, the VMMCA , that will check the configuration and updates installed on the SCVMM Server and any Hosts specified and produce...

We should be rolling out a KB article on this pretty soon (if it's not already) but I figured a heads up here would be a good idea too. Symptoms The vmmservice may crash while attempting to add a VMware vCenter environment that uses distributed switches...

If you're an administrator for System Center Virtual Machine Manager, at times you may come across cases where a host shows as "Needs Attention" or "Not Responding" or even as "Intermittent connectivity loss to Host". ...

SCVMM can use an existing virtual machine as a source for future virtual machines. The source in this case can reside on a virtual machine host or on the library server. Creating a virtual machine from a virtual machine is referred to as cloning although...

You can use the new TechNet Wiki site to share your VMM expertise with the community, and to learn from others who have already shared their knowledge. Anyone who signs on to the site by using a Windows Live ID can contribute – so go ahead and sign up...

I know I've mentioned this here before but in case you haven't seen the TechNet Wiki or had a chance to play with it, let me tell you, you should definitely check this out.  So what makes the TechNet Wiki so different?  Well for starters it...

Okay, maybe not, but whether you are new to Windows PowerShell scripting or consider yourself an expert, the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Scripting Guide is for you! Because System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) is built on Windows...

This article describes the performance metrics details that System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) collects and how to make sense of performance information that is displayed in SCVMM.  SCVMM uses a periodically running performance refresher...

A new KB is in the process of being published on an SCVMM update for Red Hat Linux running on Hyper-V. This information is currently available as a blog post, containing the same information. Those of you wanting the 'official' KB will have it soon enough...

Our very own Michael Michael posted a great article on his blog about how to fix an issue where a SCVMM job fails with: error: HostAgentFail (2912) ... and HRESULT: 0x800704DD He writes that: There is only one possible cause for this error. The VMMAgent...

You put a failover cluster node into Maintenance mode by using the console in Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, then when you restart the node you find that the groups fail back to the host node.  Why does this happen and how...

Just a quick heads up on a cool support tip our very own Mike Briggs posted over on his blog about an issue where after the latest rollup for VMM R2 has been applied, you may need to update the agent on each managed host.  He says that until the...

Here in product support our job is not only to fix problems when they happen but to help prevent those problems from happening in the first place.  There are a lot of ways we approach that aspect of our job but one of the top ways we do this is simply...

You may have noticed that when you go to set custom host reserve properties in a host group these setting do not automatically propagate down to the individual hosts with those groups: When you set the properties for “Host Reserves” at the Host Group...

Consider the following scenario: You run Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. You try to deploy a newly created virtual machine to an instance of VMware ESX Server 3.0 Host. VMware ESX Server 3.0 Host is running on the x64-based version...

This is an issue that we originally talked about a while back but we're still seeing some cases come in so I thought it would be worth another mention just in case. When using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to perform any action involving...