June, 2011

Looks like the Configuration Manager writing team just announced the June 2011 documentation library updates.  This includes updates for ConfigMgr 2007 as well as ConfigMgr 2012 and you can get a small taste below: The Configuration Manager 2007...

With Microsoft Office 2010 we have the Office deployment kit for the initial App-V deployment and also the activation components that are added to it. However, it is a bit different to patch the Office 2010 deployment compared to other software packages...

Here's the URL: http://bit.ly/iuZz2h to watch the webcast on how Microsoft Uses Opalis. ...read more

One of our internal teams who are doing a lot with Opalis internally here at Microsoft ran and recorded a webcast, and this recording is now available for viewing and download. I want to thank the MPSD team for doing this!  They have showcased their...

Hi everyone We have posted 2 new Orchestrator downloads in the Download Center for the System Center 2007/2008/2010 releases...( read more ) ...read more

System Center Orchestrator 2012 Beta is not supported on a domain controller:  Currently Installing System Center Orchestrator...( read more ) ...read more

Hi everyone, Vikram Sahay here and I’m back again with another interesting topic on system Center Operations Manager 2007. Hope you find it useful. Recently we were working on an  issue where we were getting an error indicating that an agent could...

Today we are very excited to announce the availability of two updated Integration Pack (IP) Betas for System Center Orchestrator. We have published the updated IPs for IBM Netcool and VMware vSphere which are available for immediate download by clicking...

Hi, Marc Reynolds here.  I wanted give you a quick update on an improvement in DPM Client Protection after installing the hotfix rollup package from March 2011.  With this hotfix rollup, System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM) now supports...

The WSUS product team just announced that they released SP1 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 to our update services: Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 was released to Microsoft Update and Windows Server Update Services earlier today...

Today we are very excited to announce the availability of 2 updated Integration Packs (IPs) for System Center Orchestrator...( read more ) ...read more

Hi everyone, Tyler Franke here.  Here’s an interesting issue I ran into the other day that you might want to be aware of: Symptoms When using WOL functionality in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 the port assignment and transmission method...

Hi Cluster Fans, The System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta (SCVMM 2012) has just been released and there are some great high-availability and clustering features coming to simplify datacenter management. VMM Server High-Availability Virtual...

The large range of ports used by dynamic RPC can pose a problem when attempting to allow communication through a firewall. In most cases, opening up 16,000 ports in the firewall to allow some application traffic is not feasible.  So if IPSec is not...

I was over on the ConfigMgr product team blog and saw that Microsoft’s own Min Yang just published a great post on some of the enhancements they made in the 2012 console that will help you find things much faster than ever before.  If you missed...

Issues that are fixed in this hotfix This hotfix fixes the following issues that were not previously documented in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Issue 1 When a class or a class extension that has a decimal data type is defined and populated, the scale...

Consider the following scenario: 1. You deploy many updates to a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) client. 2. You perform an operation that generates the WM_TIMECHANGE message from the client computer. For example...

Consider the following scenario: - You build a three-tier Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 hierarchy. - The hierarchy has many distribution points. For example, the hierarchy has more than 5,000 distribution points. - You create a package...

Just a quick FYI on a new KB we published this morning: ===== Symptoms Applications whose manifests specify automatic elevation (for example mmc.exe) may require additional steps to work correctly using run-as in App-V environments. This is a common scenario...

Just a quick FYI on a new KB we published this morning: ===== Symptoms Applications whose manifests specify automatic elevation (for example mmc.exe) may require additional steps to work correctly using run-as in App-V environments. This is a common scenario...

Hi everyone The Orchestrator 2012 Beta Community Evaluation Program (CEP) has been building steadily over the last few weeks, and we are now well over 500 participants!  We have the foundations for a very strong technical community here, and it has...

Hi everyone, for those of you that do not know I am moving on and leaving my role in System Center as a Sr Technical Product Manager for Configuration Manager. My 10 years in Microsoft have been absolutely amazing, first in the UK as an MCS Consultant...

Interested in how Microsoft is using Opalis? Join this IT Showcase webcast live to hear from two folks on this team that are using Opalis to automate some of the patching process on the client side and in the datacenter. Charlie Satterfield & Jim...

Ever wonder how Microsoft patches the 280k desktops in Microsoft? Join this webcast for more information - https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032487347&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Patrick...

Let’s say you want to get the GUID of an enumeration.  You could query the database EnumType table for it by following instructions in this blog post or you could use SMLets . Here is how you do it using SMLets: Hopefully you already know the non...