Managing and Operating a Microsoft Private Cloud—How to Apply the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) The Microsoft Operations Framework team is working on a new guide: Managing and Operating a Microsoft Private Cloud...

        Enhance private cloud management with new process pack   Microsoft System Center Cloud Services Process Pack now available for download! The Microsoft Solution Accelerators team is pleased to announce that the System Center...

An update to Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2012 has been released.  In addition to the previous fixes for Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) and App Controller (AC), the update rollup now includes fixes for Operations Manager (OM). A few things to...

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’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...

We’d like to take a minute to share with you the additions to reporting capabilities and the new reports that are available as part of VMM in System Center 2012 and how to access these reports in your installations. First, you need to establish the connection...

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...

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...

Here’s something I thought you might find interesting. This is from http://community.brocade.com/community/brocadeblogs/data_center/blog/2012/04/25/simplicity-is-key-to-private-cloud-from-microsoft, written by Sue Hartford, Microsoft Global Alliance Manager...

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...

Right before the Microsoft Management Summit 2012 I was preparing my demo environment for a session.  During the preparation I encountered some problems on one of the  demo hosts.  The troubled  host was in a “Needs Attention” status...

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...

Now that System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager has released, we have some KB articles that describe a few of the things we saw during the beta that you may run into. Nothing really major, just some tips and FYIs you may want to be aware of. If you...

Here’s one more Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one shows you how to easily fix an issue where the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (OpsMgr) Connector for HP OpenView fails to auto-forwarding alerts to an HP OVO...

Hi there, this is Alvin Morales and today I want to talk about how to troubleshoot a service template deployment in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).  In VMM, we have a new feature for deploying virtual machines (VMs) as a service...

Here’s another great article I found while perusing all the new stuff in our TechNet Wiki. This one was authored by Tim Sherer and goes through some common and maybe not so common issues you may run into when deploying VMM virtual machines and services...

Just a quick FYI on a couple more System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) articles I found over in our community-driven TechNet Wiki. If you are planning on rolling out VMM, or if you already have, you’ll definitely want to check these out VMM...

Microsoft’s own Jonathan Jordan recently posted a couple good articles over on his VMM blog, one regarding Technical Docs for VMM and the other his own personal PowerShell Cheat Sheet.  If you haven’t seen these yet then you’ll definitely want to...

Here are a couple more VMM troubleshooting articles I stumbled across over in our TechNet Wiki this morning. The first is on troubleshooting BITS and the second is on WMI: Troubleshoot VMM: BITS Troubleshooting : http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki...

Here’s a quick FYI on a couple new System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) articles I found over in our community-driven TechNet Wiki. If you are planning on rolling out VMM, or if you already have, you’ll probably want to add these to your Favorites...

Hi, I am Hilton Lange, SDE on the Virtual Machine Manager team.  Today I want to share with you this blog on how cluster reserve calculations were entirely rewritten in VMM 2012.  This rewrite has dramatically reduced the overly conservative...

The Microsoft Management Summit 2012 is only three weeks away!!  We can’t wait to see you all there. We will be running a series of focus groups at MMS to gather feedback from you on current and future versions of System Center. Participating in...

Advertising this on behalf of Scott Moss, one of the System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management MVPs   System Center Virtual User Group Meeting #18 this Friday March 30th 1 pm to 4pm Eastern I am pleased to announce registration is ready for the...

Greetings All, We are excited to release Community Technology Preview (CTP) of System Center 2012 for Windows Server “8” Beta support. This release will allow customers evaluating System Center 2012 to jointly evaluate the Windows Server...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where an attempt to migrate the storage of a VM from one volume to another by using the Migrate Storage option fails at 14% with a 2927 error: ===== Symptoms When attempting...