June, 2011

Currently some of our customers are reporting that they are having issues running a virtualized App-V application that is started from a network location such as a UNC path or a mapped network drive.  When this occurs they get an application error...

The following article explains the necessary steps to successfully restore large amount of data using SAN Based Recovery in System Center Data Protection Manager 2010. Imagine a scenario in which DPM 2010 needs to restore over 4TB of data on a SQL Database...

I was checking out what’s new over on the TechNet Wiki this morning and came across a neat SCVMM article written by a Microsoft Partner who goes by the screen name Pronichkin .  In it he talks about the cause and resolution to a scenario where you...

Here’s another great article I found while I was checking out what was new over on the TechNet Wiki this morning.  This one was written by Kim Ditto-Ehlert and shows you how to replace MSE with the FEP client using ConfigMgr 2007: Microsoft does...

Join this webcast to learn how Microsoft System Center 2012 cloud and data-center management solutions empower you with a common management toolset for your private and public cloud applications and services. Learn how to deliver flexible and cost-effective...

Just a quick FYI on a new Data Protection Manager Knowledge Base article we published today: ===== Summary While trying to create a protection group in System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 SP1 or System Center Data Protection Manager 2010, you may...

The next version of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit—version 2012— is now available for beta download. To participate, register for MDT 2012 Beta 1 at Microsoft Connect. Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 Beta 1 rides the next wave of System Center...

This article describes a hotfix package that resolves some issues in Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Issue 1 After you install Cumulative Update 1 for System Center Service Manager 2010 SP1, the following events that...

At TechEd 2011, we announced that the OpsMgr 2012 Community Evaluation Program (CEP) is now taking applications. What is a CEP Many of you are likely familiar with Microsoft TAP’s, Technology Adoption Programs, where a small pool of customers partner...

Looks like the good folks over on the Operations Manager team blog just announced that they’ve started taking applications for the OpsMgr 2012 Community Evaluation Program (CEP).  So what exactly is a CEP?  Well many of you are likely familiar...

Hello, my name is Walt Whitman and I am a Sr. Support Escalation Engineer with Microsoft.  Today we will be discussing how Data Protection Manager 2010 knows about the different data sources that comprise a SharePoint farm. SharePoint farms come...

Here’s a new App-V Knowledge Base article we published today.  This one covers the %SFT_SOFTGRIDSERVER% environmental variable: ===== Symptoms After modifying the %SFT_SOFTGRIDSERVER% environment variable, Microsoft Application Virtualization (App...

Here’s a new System Center Operations Manager 2007 Knowledge Base article we published today. This one is just a short note on how the Alert Priority field in a System Center Operations Manager 2007 connector may have a different wording than in the Operations...

A common issue that comes into the MED-V support team involves the following scenario: An application that was used in MED-V v1 was brought over to the new Virtual PC engine. The application functions perfectly when ran from the Virtual PC when accessing...

SCSM 2010 has a very simplified ( too simple?) portal interface for users to submit change requests.  SCSM 2012 will dramatically improve on this by introducing a service catalog.  More details on that and a demo can be found in the SCSM 2012...

Hi everyone We are very excited to announce the System Center Orchestrator 2012 Community Evaluation Program (CEP)! This program is designed to take you on a guided tour and evaluation of Orchestrator.  There is a lot of new functionality since its...

We are pleased to announce the release of the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Administration Resource Kit. The System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Administration Resource Kit includes three tools designed to help improve the Operations Manager...

In case you missed the announcement last Friday, the Microsoft Operations Manager product team just announced the availability of the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Administration Resource Kit over on their blog: ===== I am pleased to announce...

Here’s a quick heads up on a new Knowledge Base article for AVIcode that we published this morning: ===== Symptoms When using AVIcode Intercept Studio 5.7, you receive the following error in the SE-Viewer Configuration Utility when you try to update the...

Hi Everyone, Charlie Chen here. Though System Center Configuration Manager 2007 has been out for some time now (currently at R3 SP2), and System Center Configuration Manager 2012 is due to be out soon, there still lingers occasional questions such as...

Hi everyone, Shane Brasher here. In my opinion, the biggest enhancement from DPM 2007 to DPM 2010 is the auto-healing capabilities that enable protected datasources to remain reliably consistent. System Center Data Protection Manager 2010’s auto-healing...

The short answer is that we keep data in the warehouse for 3 years for fact tables and forever for dimension and outrigger tables. Antoni Hanus, a Premier Field Engineer with Microsoft, has put together the detailed steps on how to adjust this retention...

Have you ever wanted to know how to create and deploy a stand-alone virtual machine with a blank virtual hard disk (.vhd) using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012?  If so then we have the video for you.  Microsoft’s own Tessa Wooley...

Hi everyone, Steve Thomas here and today I wanted to talk about a recent issue where streaming may fail when using a Netscaler load balancer.  Load balancers are common when using App-V in an RTSP streaming mode (one that leverages either the management...

I was over on the Operations Manager team blog today and saw that they just posted a new ADMX for Agentless Exception Monitoring in OpsMgr 2007 R2.  Keep in mind that it’s a beta and it doesn’t sound like they’ve done a lot of testing but if you...