May, 2011

The Microsoft Solution Accelerators Team has a new IT governance, risk, and compliance (IT GRC) Solution Acclerator beta release you should check out. It’s called the the Data Classification Toolkit (DCT) for Windows Server 2008 R2 and it helps...

The following article explains the necessary steps to successfully share a Physical Tape Library and a Virtual Tape Library on System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM).  It also shows how to manually map library drives to the correct Tape...

Just a quick heads up that we issued a revision to the WSUS offering for Windows 7 / Window Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) on 5/24 to address known installation issues: A revision was made to the WSUS offering for Windows 7 / Window Server 2008 R2...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we just published this morning about an issue you’ll see if you protect a database with two backslashes in the path: ===== Symptoms When you create a new SQL database (or it is created automatically by an application...

[Today's post is provided by Rob Stack ] The Configuration Manager Information Experience (iX) team has just published an update to the Configuration Manager 2007 Quiz Application. The quizzes are a fun way to learn about some of the features in the...

After creating the article ConfigMgr 2007 Basic User Driven Installation Task Sequence Step by Step , I wanted to follow up with another article covering the Application Discovery and Mapping features in a UDI Task Sequence. This cool feature allows you...

Over on our Service Manager Engineering Team blog Travis Wright has blogged about some cool new solutions from our partner Link Development. http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager/archive/2011/05/25/new-scsm-solutions-from-partner-link-development...

There a a few different ways to get management pack elements using the SDK. For this example, I’ll work with object templates, but the same pattern holds true for essentially all other management pack elements like classes, relationship types, rules...

One of our partners – Link Development – has recently released some new solutions for SCSM I’m excited to tell you about! Arabic Self-service Portal First they have created an Arabic version of the self-service portal.  This is different than the...

For whatever reason the notification template wizard doesn’t allow you to insert the GUID ID of an object into the notification template.  You can insert some of the other “generic” properties like Last modified, Time added, and Display name though...

[Today's post comes from Harini Muralidharan] We are announcing support changes for the following releases. Please look for these changes to be reflected in the Supported Configuration pages within a few months. Microsoft Application Virtualization...

Customer asks – how can I get a list of services using the SDK? Easy – less than 10 lines of code. Here is a simple console application to demonstrate. First create a new application (or use an application you already have going) and...

Sometimes you just want to delete an object in the UI.  That’s easy to do with a console task that uses SMLets.  Here’s how: First, go to the Library/Tasks view. Click Create Task. Give the task a name, description (optionally), choose the Object...

Hi everyone, my name is Fei Xia and I wanted to take this opportunity to show you how to successfully install or move the Configuration Manager 2007 site database to a clustered Microsoft SQL Server instance. The System Center Configuration Manager 2007...

As I’m playing around with our pre-beta build of Orchestrator, I’m building lots of little tools for interacting with it...( read more ) ...read more

Customer asks how to get the owner of a service using SMLets on this forum thread: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/systemcenterservicemanager/thread/c146d523-3c71-40e4-8617-c20de8bd4ba0 No problem!  This is really just a variation...

Have you had an opportunity to look at the new System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta , yet? Are you confused as to all of the new features and capabilities and how do I learn about all of this good, new stuff? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a place...

Just in case you missed it, Jeff Wettlaufer (Senior Technical Product Manager for System Center) just announced the immediate availability of SCUP 2011: We have released System Center Updates Publisher 2011 to the web today. This release was primarily...

We have released System Center Updates Publisher 2011 to the web today.  This release was primarily driven by customer feedback over the past year.  It all started last year at MMS (2010) where we got a lot of great feedback regarding the existing...

Hi everyone, Tyler Franke here, and today I wanted to tell you about an interesting issue I ran into the other day after moving a site database to a failover cluster. After following our written procedures to move the site database into a SQL Server 2008...

We blogged this issue a couple weeks ago but now there’s a hotfix available to resolve the issue: ===== Consider the following scenario: You create a task sequence on a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) site server...

Consider the following scenario: Scenario 1 You have a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) site server. You install hotfix 2213600 on the site server. You use the Import New Driver Wizard to import a set of drivers...

Authorization is required to manipulate objects such as queues and work items in Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2010. These authorizations are managed by using profiles. A profile is a collection of items that are used for authorization. For...

Consider the following two scenarios: Scenario 1 You have a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) site server. You install an Asset Intelligence synchronization point on the site server. In the installation process, the...

Have you ever wondered how we pull off an event like TechEd 2011 where we have to setup the demo environments at the different SIM Pods for all of the different products we have?  If so then here’s a special behind the scenes view into how we did...