For those who couldn’t attend the live webcast, today we’re publishing the May 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . We fielded 13 questions on various topics during the webcast, with specific bulletin questions focusing...

Chris Butcher | Senior Support Escalation Engineer Hello again folks, this is Chris Butcher and I realized it has been too long since my last blog post. I recently worked with a customer and through our conversations realized that there is a lack of information...

Babulal Ghule | Support Escalation Engineer Hi everyone, Babulal Ghule here again and in this blog post I will walk you through the steps to configure the notification workflow so that it will notify you if the assigned to user field is empty for an Incident...

We are hosting another MVP Speaker Series session tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 8 A.M. Redmond time.  The speaker will be Nate Lasnoski, one of the Windows Server/System Center MVPs, and one of the top speakers at the Microsoft Management Summit...

Robert Hedblom, one of our Microsoft MVPs, gave a great presentation a few days ago on “Backup That Really Works” using multiple components of the System Center 2012 SP1 suite.  If you would like to watch the presentation, check it out on the Partner...

We published a new hotfix today for ConfigMgr 2007 SP2 to correct the following issue: You have a Management Point installed on a site server in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2. In some cases, such as scenarios that involve...

Arun Kumar   | Senior Support Engineer When viewing the Local Resolution Time monitor in the DNS Management Pack for Operations Manager, you may notice that the response time reported does not reflect your own real world results. For example, I recently...

System Center Update Publisher (SCUP) 2011 supports Windows Server 2012 System Center Update Publisher 2011 now supports Windows Server 2012. The following are known issues: Compatibility issue – WSUS 4.0 with WSUS 3.0 (with or without...

We are excited to announce that the Exchange team has released the Exchange 2013 Management Pack. You can find the Management Pack here and the guide here . The guide walks through the details of deploying, configuring and using the Management Pack. ...

Vladimir Petrosyan | Support Escalation Engineer Hey there again! This is Vladimir from the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) team and today I have a really quick tip for you all that I found out myself recently working on an issue. The issue is basically...

Vasanth Kumar | Support Engineer Hey there again! This is Vasanth from the Operations Manager team and today I have a quick tip for you all that I found while working on a recent issue. When using Systems Center Operations Manager (any version of OpsMgr...

Today, we are releasing 10 bulletins, addressing 33 vulnerabilities in Microsoft products. Before we get into the details, we wanted to first let our enterprise customers know about a change in how we’re communicating technical details within our...

Babulal Ghule | Support Escalation Engineer Hey there again! This is Babulal Ghule from the System Center team and today I wanted to walk you through the steps to configure the notification for assignment/re-assignment, action log/user comment updates...

  Here’s a quick heads up on an issue we ran into recently. When you open a Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) app for active upgrade and make a minor change, it is possible that the application will fail to start the first time it is imported...

Just wanted to let you know about a new Knowledge Base article we published today, This one talks about an issue where System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 agent computers that utilize NIC teaming may not be discovered and log the following errors...

One of our Microsoft MVPs, Alessandro Cardoso, wrote a great book on Virtual Machine Manager.  Check it out!  http://link.packtpub.com/POCsIQ ...read more

On May 21, Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) continues its monthly series of free Q&A sessions led by Microsoft technical evangelists. This month, we’re releasing several great System Center 2012 SP1 courses and have invited Symon Perriman to answer...

The Microsoft Server and Management Studios User Research team is looking for IT Professionals to join our customer panel. Your participation in this panel will help us understand customer requirements, workflows, and usage trends when working with Windows...

Kurt Scherer from the VMM Team here, I wanted to bring attention to some awesome work around Service Templates in VMM. Over on the Building Clouds Blog, there have been a few recent posts that you should definitely check out. First, Jim Britt has released...

Solution – The AWS Management Pack for Operations Manager Whether they are on-premises or in the AWS cloud, this SCOM Management Pack (MP) allows organizations running their Microsoft-based workloads at AWS to monitor their AWS resources directly in the...

Consider the following scenario: You have Cumulative Update 1 for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) Service Pack 1 (SP1) installed. You install a stand-alone primary site server or a hierarchy in the ConfigMgr environment. You create...

Today we’re providing Advance Notification of 10 bulletins for release on Tuesday, May 14, 2013. This release brings two Critical and eight Important-class bulletins, which address 34 unique vulnerabilities. The Critical-rated bulletins address...

We have updated Security Advisory 2847140 to include an easy, one-click Fix it to address the known attack vectors. The Fix it is available to all customers and helps prevent known attacks that leverage the vulnerability to execute code and should not...

Just wanted to let you know about a new KB article we published today. This one is an App-V article that discusses an issue where if an application contains an OPC "relationship part" (.rels) file, the Microsoft App-V 5.0 sequencer fails to...

Ryan Cobb | Senior Premier Field Engineer Hi everyone, my name is Ryan Cobb and here are the steps required to install the App-V 5 Database and Management Server using the SQL scripts on the DB instead of the installation routine. ===== Background Environment...