If you're like me, you like to put descriptive text in a link to describe what it does. Perhaps it's to indicate the conditions of a branching structure, like this: But what’s annoying is that when you turn on the Link text, every link has the word “Link...

As all Configuration Manager customers know, security is challenging and often requires complex setup configurations. Setting up a Certificate Authority, issuing certificates, and maintaining them can be a herculean task, and in most cases involves interacting...

The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and the Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library have been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: May 1, 2012 at the top of the topic. Downloadable documentation...

This blog post is from one of our community contributors - Markus Klein.  Thanks for sharing Markus! ======================================================================================= Extending classes are common tasks in System Center Service...

One of our most awesome test guys on the Orchestrator Team, Zhenhua Yao, who has delivered such goodies as the TFS IP and a PowerShell IP on our CodePlex site , has done it again! Anyone who has built an IP using the Orchestrator SDK knows that you need...

With System Center Operations Manager 2012, the x86 agent cannot be installed in a 64-bit server. Although - in general - 32-bit applications can still be monitored by the 64-bit agent, you won’t be able to collect 32-bit custom performance counters...

  Introduction and Problem Statement There has been quite a bit of confusion over the requirements for SQL Server collation for the various components of System Center. We didn’t make a coordinated effort here to make this as easy as it could and...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where placing a highly available virtual machine on an ESXi Cluster in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager fails. ===== Symptoms When trying to place a highly available...

Around the office, we have more and more internal teams that are latching on to Orchestrator and wanting to use it for building all sorts of integrations and automations, but one of the things that comes up from time to time is how to get the ability...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where WDS doesn’t start on a PXE enabled remote Distribution Point in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager if Microsoft.VC90.CRT is not installed. ===== Symptoms After...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where Regional settings default to English when deploying a virtual machine using a template on System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager. ===== Symptoms Consider the following...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where the SCVMM 2012 console terminates with NullReferenceException after adding an ESX 4.1 host. ===== Symptoms After adding an ESX 4.1 host to System Center 2012 Virtual...

One of the most foundational activities an Orchestrator admin does is installing Integration Packs. After all, Integration Packs provide the real value to Orchestrator because they allow you to extend its capabilities and let you connect to virtually...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where you may be unable to see any performance or availability details using System Center 2012 Operations Manager widgets ===== Symptoms When using performance widgets in...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where WDS installation images fail and are deleted when configured for multicast in System Center Configuration Manager 2007. ===== Symptoms Consider the following scenario...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one is a basic overview of what Maintenance Mode is and when/how you’d want to use it, plus a couple common issues you may run into. ===== What is Maintenance Mode? Maintenance mode is a feature in...

This is a guest blog post by Mark Newton, one of our community contributors.  Thanks for sharing Mark! ======================================== I have set up a number of ‘Service Requests’ in SCSM 2012 which are all working great. However what we...

I just noticed that all of these cool demo videos were posted to TechNet Video earlier this month.  Check them out to see how System Center 2012 can make managing your private cloud a whole lot easier and better!   Private Cloud Demo Extravaganza...

I’ve been spending quite a bit of time with customers over the last 6-12 months helping them plan out and deploy their first private clouds managed by System Center 2012.  To help people get started faster I headed into the Enterprise Engineering...

Working with relationships in the SCSM integration pack can be a bit tricky so this blog post is intended to provide some tips. First of all it is really important when working with Service Manager to understand the data model.  Have a look at the...

This article describes a hotfix package that contains the latest fixes for Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.6 Service Pack 1 (SP1). This hotfix package is dated April 2012. This hotfix package fixes the following issue: On a server that...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one describes an issue where a PXE enabled Distribution Point will generate a large number of files under C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\S-1-5-18 for each PXE request that it services on the...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one describes an issue where System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Software Center does not launch on a Windows XP client if Terminal Services is disabled. ===== Symptoms When starting Software...

When you have an SCOM alert-generated incident selected in SCSM you have two additional tasks available to click on in the task pane: View Alert Details and View CI Health State. When you click on these tasks they will take you directly in context to...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one describes an issue where when performing hard-link migrations in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, the User State Migration Toolkit (USMT) state store becomes much bigger than anticipated...