March, 2011

Ever since Windows Phone 7 was launched late last year there’s been a growing buzz surrounding Microsoft’s new phone OS, and with the recent announcement that the Windows Phone Marketplace had surpassed 10,000 apps in those 4-5 months and was growing...

These Microsoft App-V Package Accelerators help you quickly and easily create an App-V virtual application package for various software packages, all by simply clicking through a Wizard and answering a couple questions. By following the Wizard in the...

This guide is intended to provide some general troubleshooting tips and tricks in regards to issues you might experience with App-V Management Servers 4.5 and SQL 2005/2008. When the App-V Management Server notices issues towards the SQL Datastore, in...

Now that App-V 4.6 SP1 is released we decided to publish a couple KB articles to give you a heads up on some issues we saw during the beta. Most of these are just FYIs and configuration related scenarios but if you’re rolling out Microsoft Application...

Today we announced the general availability of MDOP 2011, which includes among other things the long awaited App-V 4.6 SP1!  So what’s new in this release?  Well here are couple bullets announced by Gavriella Schuster over on the Windows for...

Just an FYI on a new AVIcode Knowledge Base article we published this morning: ===== Symptoms During the installation of the AVIcode 5.6 SEViewer, the following warning is generated when testing the connection to the database: " Specified <SEViewerDBName>...

Here’s another heads up on a new AVIcode Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one talks about how to fix an issue where the upgrade of AVIcode SE-Viewer from version 5.0 to 5.7 fails with “ Can not upgrade currently installed version...

Just a quick heads up on a new AVIcode Knowledge Base article we published this morning.  This one talks about how to fix error 1722 when trying to install AVIcode SE-Viewer 5.7: Symptoms When you try to upgrade to AVIcode SE-Viewer 5.7 from version...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published this morning.  This one was written by System Center Senior Support Escalation Engineer Michael Sadoff and explains how to add your own custom performance counters so that they’re collected by the...

From the System Center Configuration Manager Team Blog : In many large organizations, network configuration and Active Directory Domain Services are managed separately from Configuration Manager. Changes to the network topology or AD structure must be...

Microsoft’s very own John Vintzel recently posted a couple of fantastic articles discussing Configuration Manager 2012 Distribution Points, PXE Services and Boot Image management so if you missed these you’ll definitely want to stop by and give them a...

The Configuration Manager team is pleased to release a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Physical to Virtual Migration Toolkit. This tool is designed to assist organizations in their migrations from Configuration Manager 2007, to Configuration...

Looks like the product team is publishing some new support statements for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 this month: Configuration Manager 2007 SP2, R2 and R3 supports Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Microsoft Application Virtualization...

Over the weekend, the DPM community lost one of its best – Ruud Baars. While you may be familiar with some of the DPM voices and faces, Ruud was one of the quiet and sometimes unseen, true innovators of how to deploy DPM in the real world. If you received...

Hi, Chris Butcher here, and it’s been a while but I'm back. Since I installed Data Protection Manager 2010 I don't seem to be attending to the DPM 2010 server nearly as much so I’m spending a lot of free time working on other projects (like my SharePoint...

TrimTransfer, as well as revertible workspaces will not be available in version 2 of MED-V. With a host being Windows 7 and a Workspace being Windows XP, there is not much use for it. As you read more about the new features of MED-V v2, you will also...

Hi, I’m Dave Trupkin, Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V). On behalf of the entire MED-V team, I’d like to congratulate the Internet Explorer team on the release of Internet Explorer 9. I’m...

Now that MED-V 2.0 is released we decided to publish a couple KB articles to give you a heads up on some issues we saw during the beta. Most of these are just FYIs and configuration related scenarios but if you’re rolling out Microsoft Enterprise Desktop...

Today we announced the general availability of MDOP 2011, which includes among other things the long awaited MED-V 2.0!  So what’s new in this release?  Well, lots really.  According to Gavriella Schuster over on the Windows for your Business...

As per the first post in this series, this article documents a demo that we did at MMS last week. In this demo, I showed how we could automatically add a newly deployed server into the DPM protection cycle.  This is a very simple demo, with only...

I am going to document and publish all the Opalis demos that I did at MMS, providing a description of what the scenario was and details on how I built it. The idea is to help you understand the process we go through, and give you ideas. You will always...

Marcel Zehner over at SCSMFAQ.ch has recently built and made available a new Opalis integration pack for SCSM! For now it includes three new workflow activities: Auto-close Resolved Incidents Auto-close Resolved Problem Export Unsealed Management Packs...

This one’s really more of a tip that you need to configure the URL in the Opalis Integration Server – Client Console before you can use the Operator Console button, but just in case you forget and see the "No Operator Console URL configured"...

I have just posted an article over on the Nexus blog, with information regarding the new capability pillars and information about what we used to refer to as Opalis vNext … now officially named System Center Orchestrator! Please go take a read There will...

I am very excited to announce that Microsoft TechNet has just gone into beta for the new TechNet Gallery, which includes a special category for System Center, including subcategories for specific System Center products (including Opalis!). This new Gallery...