That's a question we seem to get a lot, and not just for SCVMM but for just about every product we support. Permissions can be confusing and to be honest, it's not always obvious what the proper rights are even if you know they're somehow messed up. Well...

We had two new System Center Virtual Machine Manager Knowledge Base articles last week.  The first is about a perimeter host communication issue and the second is about an issue you may run into doing P2Vs.  The links and titles are below: KB971825...

We had four new System Center Virtual Machine Manager Knowledge Base articles published last week.  The first two are more of the informational variety and the last two are more issue related.  Links and titles are below.   KB970921 - How...

Everywhere you look these days it’s all about blogs.  Blogs here, blogs there, they’re all over the place.  So have you ever wondered how many different blogs Microsoft hosts? Let me tell, you don’t want to know.  Let’s just say it’s thousands...

When you perform a physical to virtual (P2V) conversion using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, the P2V job may fail with the following error: Error (3154) An internal error has occurred trying to contact an agent on the servername server. ...

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...

On Wednesday, May 27 we’ll be hosting a 90 minute webcast on using Windows PowerShell with Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager so mark your calendars now.  If you’ve ever wanted to automate some of those common administrative tasks...

When trying to add a System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 host in a remote domain configured with an external trust , you receive the following error: Error (2917) Virtual Machine Manager cannot process the request because an error occurred while...

One of the top questions that I keep hearing from our customers is to explain the ‘over-committed’ status and why we sometimes display this status. An example of when this status might be displayed is when attempting to migrate a VM to a particular host...

When using System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) to perform a Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion, the job may fail at 60% with the following error: Error (2912) An internal error has occurred trying to contact an agent on the vmmserver.contoso...

Here's a great post our very own Michael Michael posted today that talks about an issue you may run into when using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 trying to migrate a virtual machine from one cluster to another: If you have two Hyper-V failover...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hello my name is Kerim Hanif, I am a Program Manager in Virtual Machine Manager product responsible from Setup feature. As you may already know during VMM installation you can use an existing database or specify a remote database. Remote empty database...

Recently we have seen an issue where a few customers have been experiencing errors and long delays in adding a single-node cluster (i.e. a 1 node cluster) under management in Virtual Machine Manager. The error that is displayed in the console is Warning...

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...

Hello everyone. In the Part 1 we looked at reports that System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) ships out of the box for our customers; in this part we want to shift gears a bit and talk about what additional things you can do based on the data...

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...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today that applies to both VMM 2008 and VMM 2012. This one talks about an error you can get when trying to add a Host or Cluster to System Center Virtual Machine Manager: ===== Symptoms Adding a Hyper-V...

One of our System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management MVPs, Kristian Nese, wrote up a great article on his blog describing services in System Center Virtual Machine Manager.  I definitely recommend taking a read through that if you are new to...

VMM 2012 introduces the concept of services: it allows defining service templates (blueprints of user applications), deploying services from service templates (creating VMs and applications), and servicing services with updated service templates (updating...

In VMM2012, sensitive data like RunAs Account passwords are encrypted using the configured encryption technology. There are two options for which technology to use for encryption key management. These are: 1.        DPAPI...

We recently posted the VMM 2012 error codes to the TechNet wiki. The main page is located here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4906.aspx . For each error code, the error or warning message and recommended action is listed....