Just a quick FYI on a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where PXE boot mail fail for a client if one of the Management Points is in an untrusted forest. This is really an issue/explanation regarding how Distribution...

In this post, we complete our review logical networks by looking at the implications of Network Virtualization and Externally Defined Networks on your logical network design. Note that in the latter case, the VMM administrator has no insight into how...

Today we’re publishing the June 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . We fielded three questions during the webcast, with specific questions focusing primarily on Windows Print Spooler ( MS13-050 ), Microsoft Office ( MS13...

I am happy to announce the release of Cumulative Update 1 to the Configuration Manager clients for Linux and UNIX. This release delivers the following additional capabilities and features to the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 release...

Last week there was a flurry of information and activity around TechEd North America. So many announcements and sessions , so little time. Several of the product groups posted information on what they have been working on, and we wanted to make sure and...

~ John Thekkethala | Senior Program Manager I am happy to announce that we have released Cumulative Update 1 to the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 clients for Linux/UNIX. This release delivers the following additional capabilities...

We get a lot of questions regarding support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 in the previous versions of our System Center products, and while this information is published in the TechNet Library it’s fairly spread out and at times difficult to find...

Just a quick FYI on a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where a management server turns gray after being removed from the All Management Servers resource pool in the OpsMgr 2012 admin console. You can get all...

- Adeel Mohd | Configuration Manager Support Engineer I recently came across an interesting issue that I had never witnessed before in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr 2007) and while troubleshooting I learned it had to do with one...

It was just over one year ago, May 28, 2012, to be exact, that I transitioned from running active MSRC cases and writing bulletins to my current role managing software security incidents. A lot has changed in that year - and I’ve dealt with some...

Until Windows 8, Windows Update used to manage its own internal scheduling for checking for, downloading, and installing updates. It required that the Windows Update Agent was always running in the background, consuming memory and other system resources...

Just a quick FYI on a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where using ConfigMgr 2007 to patch the passive node of a cluster fails with exit code -2068578304. You can get all of the details in the article below...

- Satish Phatge | Senior Support Engineer Here’s an issue I ran into the other day that I thought you might be interested in hearing about. It’s probably not something that will be very common but I wanted to pass it along anyway just in case. The issue...

Hi everyone, welcome to the second blog in the series “New Distribution Points in Configuration Manager SP1”. In this second post I am going to talk about “pull-distribution points” You may ask why we introduced this new...

Just a quick FYI on a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where after upgrading the data warehouse to System Center 2012 Service Manager Service Pack 1 (SP1), if the data warehouse has been running for more than...

Today we’re providing Advance Notification of five bulletins for release on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. This release brings one Critical- and four Important-class bulletins. The Critical-rated bulletin addresses issues in Internet Explorer, and the...

- Santosh Killekar | System Center Support Engineer Here’s an issue I ran into the other day that I thought you might be interested in hearing about. It’s probably not something that will be very common but I wanted to pass it along anyway just in case...

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Hello - The Windows Intune service will undergoing a brief maintenance window that will require 30 minutes of downtime. During this downtime window, you will be unable to access the Windows Intune Administration Console. Maintenance window is scheduled...

In this blog, we continue our review of tenant isolation by looking at the implications of PVLANs on your logical network design – we will look at Network Virtualization and complete our review of Logical Networks in the next post. We Look forward to...

As a growing majority of organizations face the need to let their employees choose the devices they want to use for their jobs, IT organizations are looking for ways to enable consumerization without compromising compliance. Helping IT serve users and...

This week at TechEd, we’re sharing our excitement about the upcoming releases of Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager, and Windows Intune. By itself, System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager can: Deploy and...

TechEd North America is officially underway, and it's time to roll out the red carpet ! It began this morning with a post and video on the new Microsoft Cloud OS YouTube channel from Microsoft Server and Tools President Satya Nadella on “The Enterprise...

Welcome Windows Intune fans to the start of TechEd North America, 2013! By now we hope that you have had a chance to hear from Microsoft Server and Tools President Satya Nadella on “The Enterprise Era” in this post and video on the new Microsoft...

One of our ISV partners, Savision, has been working with one of the System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management MVPs, Damian Flynn, to produce a whitepaper on virtual networking.  Damian will also be hosting two free webinars on the topic. ...