Unified physical and virtual IT management for midsized businesses
I saw this question from a customer on a forum I read quite often:
I've been meaning to check out the System Center Essentials package for a while now, I finally found time to setup a VM get it installed recently. After I installed it, I applied all available updates via Microsoft Update (I update the server and my laptop with the newest round of updates). I can launch the console from the VM fine. However when I try to open the console from my Windows 7 machine I get the following error: The underlying connection was closed: an unexpected error occurred on send.
I've been meaning to check out the System Center Essentials package for a while now, I finally found time to setup a VM get it installed recently.
After I installed it, I applied all available updates via Microsoft Update (I update the server and my laptop with the newest round of updates). I can launch the console from the VM fine. However when I try to open the console from my Windows 7 machine I get the following error: The underlying connection was closed: an unexpected error occurred on send.
Well, that’s pretty generic, and you won’t likely come up with an answer to the problem on any search engine. If you take a look at the error details though, you might see something like this at the top:
Application: System Center Essentials Application Version: 6.0.1885.0 Severity: Error Message: Error connecting to Update server 'XXXXXX' System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send. ---> System.IO.IOException: Authentication failed because the remote party has closed the transport stream. at System.Net.Security.SslState.StartReadFrame(Byte[] buffer, Int32 readBytes, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest) at System.Net.Security.SslState.StartReceiveBlob(Byte[] buffer, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest) at System.Net.Security.SslState.ForceAuthentication(Boolean receiveFirst, Byte[] buffer, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest) at System.Net.Security.SslState.ProcessAuthentication(LazyAsyncResult lazyResult)
So what’s going on here is that there’s an SSL certificate issue. Essentially, what happened in this case was the SCE server in a VM was in its own private domain, and the user was trying to connect to it from a machine outside that domain. WSUS needs to connect via SSL, but couldn’t find a usable certificate and failed.
Given that, there is a Technet article
How to Install a Remote System Center Essentials Console
Which describes how to create and set up certificates for use. So the user ran the Feature Configuration Wizard in on the Server’s SCE Console, followed the directions to use the newly created certificate on his Remote console, and voila!
Recently, the folks at TechNet Edge sat down with David Mills and Edwin Yuen for a brief discussion of Microsoft’s IT management and virtualization solution for midsize businesses.
With the release of public betas for System Center Essentials 2010 and Data Protection Manager 2010, customers will have the capability to easily manage, backup and restore their physical and virtual servers in an integrated way.
After discussing the benefits of using Hyper-V, SCE 2010 and DPM 2010, Edwin gives us a quick demo of SCE 2010’s integrated virtual and physical management capabilities.
For more information and to download public betas, go to:
SCE 2010: www.microsoft.com/SCE DPM 2010: www.microsoft.com/DPM
SCE 2010: www.microsoft.com/SCE
DPM 2010: www.microsoft.com/DPM
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If you are going to be in Berlin for Tech Ed Europe, you can meet some of the Essentials team and provide feedback and ask questions directly. Stop by the Essentials booth or attend the following sessions:
MGT311
Introduction to Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010
9 Nov 2009 13:30-14:45
Paris 1 - Hall 7-1c
MGT11-IS
Get Virtualized with Microsoft System Center Essentials!
11 Nov 2009 09:00-10:15
Interactive Theatre 5 - Yellow
MGT03-DEMO
Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 = Integrated Virtual and Physical IT Management for Medium-Sized Businesses
11 Nov 2009 12:20-13:00
Berlin 1 - Hall 7-3a
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Do you know what time it is? Yes, it’s THAT time…time for you to check out the next full release of System Center Essentials – SCE 2010! For those of you who were with us for the release of System Center Essentials 2007 a little over two years ago, you know that this is Microsoft’s IT management solution specifically designed for midsized businesses. From one console, SCE allows you to monitor and manage your servers, clients, hardware, software, and IT services.
Over the last two years, we’ve been getting some great feedback from customers using SCE 2007, investigating ways to improve on the existing features AND address a new trend we’ve been seeing with customers’ virtualizing server workloads. Based on all this input, the engineering team has invested a lot of work into making the following updates in this next release. We’ve -
Plus a lot, lot more!So, what are you waiting for? Stop reading my blog entry and head to this URL to download the SCE 2010 trial! http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee470677.aspx
David Mills
Sr. Product Manager