May, 2011

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...

Hi everyone, my name is Stephen Baron (VMM Program Manager) and I want to take a minute to tell you about a couple exciting new features in SCVMM 2012 – Dynamic Optimization and Power Optimization. Introduction System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM...

Today I needed to generate a bunch of test data in a hurry.  How about using SMLets for that!?   No problem!  In fact that is part of why we created SMLets was to do data generation for tests quickly and easily. Here is an example of how...

Here is a common complaint that I hear from customers….  When an activity fails in a change request such as manual activity status changing to failed or when a review activity is rejected the change request status as a whole will change to Failed...

Hey everyone, we wanted to showcase what some of our Community Evaluation Program participants have been creating around their experiences so far with ConfigMgr 2012.  Below is a list of blogs, demos, and videos done by some incredibly talented people...

Hi, I am Nitin Bhat, Program Manager on the SCVMM team. Today I am going to provide you with sample PowerShell scripts to leverage our investments made for networking and storage. These scripts would execute against the SCVMM 2012 Beta builds. The best...

Provance, the partner that brought you IT asset lifecycle management for SCSM, has now produced another solution – the Provance Data Management Pack. This solution is great for importing data from external systems into Service Manager. Here is 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...

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...

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...

We are in the final stages of copy edit for the System Center Service Manager 2010 Unleashed book now.  It’s up on Amazon now available for pre-order.  The release date on Amazon says something like October 2, but I’m pretty sure it will be...

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...

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...

Marcel Zehner just informed me this morning that he has released version 2.0 of his CodePlex project for Opalis Integration Pack for SCSM.  Congrats Marcel and thanks for sharing this with the community! Here is the list of activities that the integration...

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...

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...

In this series we will be blogging about some of our best practices using System Center Configuration Manager for updates deployment. I work on managing updates to 280k clients at Microsoft, so I have a lot of interest in this space. To start with I have...

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...

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). ...

If you’ve ever said to yourself “Wow, I sure wish I knew more about all the really cool things System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 could do” or “I wish there was a site that had all the best SCVMM 2012 resources all in one spot” then I’ve got just...