May, 2011

I just wanted to let you know about a couple of our System Center support engineers that were recently profiled on Microsoft’s Customer Service & Support (CSS) People First blog.  There’s a chance that you might have talked with one of these...

A few weeks back I announced the System Center Blog Aggregator app for Windows Phone 7 and today I wanted to let you know that it was now available for all you Android users out there as well.  I won’t go into all the details as you can read that...

With the App-V 4.6 SP1 Sequencer, Project Templates are a much easier to use feature that can save companies time sequencing and testing their packages. Using Project Templates as a basis for sequencing virtually eliminates misconfiguration related deployment...

The Command Line Sequencer, or CLI, has been improved with the App-V 4.6 SP1 release of the Sequencer. The Sequencer now has the ability to define Feature Block 1, create Package Accelerators, and create packages from Package Accelerators. The CLI is...

I know this isn’t App-V specific but I thought you might want to know about a great training opportunity we have coming up at the end of the month for Office 365.  On May 24th through 26th Microsoft Learning is hosting a free 3-day Jump Start tailored...

This article describes a hotfix package that contains the latest hotfixes for Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.6 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and that is dated April 2011. Issues that are resolved by this hotfix package The initial query of the...

Last week we published a couple posts that covered creating Package Accelerators and how to create them with the GUI interface, and today we’re going to build on that by showing you how to do the same thing using the Command Line Interface (CLI). ...

I have had a couple of cases recently that involve running a task sequence from the Run Advertised Program (RAP) Control Panel applet which has a large number of software package installation steps (usually over 200).  What happens in these cases...

The folks over on the Configuration Manager product team blog just posted a fantastic article on what Client Health is and how to use it in System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 2: It’s often the case that many customer-reported issues with a...

I recently encountered a question from a customer who wanted to be able to set the computer name, and also be able to have their Desktop Technicians select software to be installed during an Operating System Deployment for their upcoming Windows 7 refresh...

Operating System Deployment (OSD) in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 offers several options for deploying images to target systems. One option includes support for imaging systems that are completely disconnected from the network using stand...

Have you ever wanted to know a simple step by step process for creating a Task Sequence with the Enable BitLocker step included? I walk you through these steps, and also include some additional links to more information, including screen shots of the...

Hi everyone, Clifton Hughes here.  It seems that there is a lot of documentation and various blog posts about managing clients in a Workgroup or Un-Trusted domain with ConfigMgr 2007, however I could not find where anyone had tied it all together...

Hi everyone, Marc Reynolds here and I wanted to take a minute and show you how to use a new feature that came with the March DPM hotfix rollup package that allows users that are not local administrators on a protected client to recover their protected...

Hi, Shane Brasher here, and I just wanted to let you know about a new video I released. This video covers System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 and how to deploy and configure the Self-Service Recovery Tool (SSRT).  System Center Data Protection...

When using System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 or 2010 (DPM) to backup your production servers, you might encounter a situation where the recovery point volumes for your protected data source keep running out of space and the number of days that...

Microsoft’s own Shane Brasher has just released another great new video.  This video covers System Center Data Protection Manager client setup, protection group configuration, client synchronization and client side file restore.  Check it out...

The Set-Quota PowerShell script (attached below) applies or removes disk quotas for protected client computers. It uses the expected data size per client value of the protection group to set the required disk quota for the client computers protected under...

If you attempt to install the MED-V v2 Host Agent while the MED-V v1 client is installed and a MED-V v1 workspace is currently running, you will get the following error message: The MED-V ToGo USB drive was not properly ejected. This may result in...

When installing the MED-V 2.0 Host Agent, you must first deploy the Virtual PC components. If you have not installed Windows 7 Service pack 1, the requirements are straight forward: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg548583.aspx The Virtual...

Looks like Microsoft’s own Charles Joy announced the next addition to his collection of OIS 6.3 QIK based Integration Packs (IPs) on CodePlex. As you can see from the blog title, this one is all about PowerShell: If you have worked with PowerShell in...

Not sure how I missed this one back when it first posted but our very own Charles Joy posted a great video demo over on his blog about how to use Opalis to update the Hyper-V VM integration components: Have you recently upgraded your Windows Server 2008...

Here’s another new System Center Operations Manager 2007 Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one tells you how to fix and prevent an issue where the Remedy Connector for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 does not populate the...

Here’s another new System Center Operations Manager 2007 Knowledge Base article we published this morning.  This one tells you how to fix and prevent an issue where incorrect Exchange server status can be rolled up to OpsMgr 2007 when multiple domains...

Have you ever checked the option "Don't prompt when running this task in the future" by mistake when running a task in SCOM 2007 and you want to clear that check to get the task prompting again? If so, this will walk you through the steps to...