September, 2011

Hi everyone On Tuesday, October 4th Technical Evangelists Symon Perriman and Rick Claus are hosting an online conference on Virtualization Career Training with Microsoft Learning.  This half day virtual event (8am – 11am PST) will offer a Level 100...

Hi everyone, we have a couple exciting Microsoft virtualization & SCVMM career training opportunities coming up that you won’t want to miss: http://mctreadiness.com/MicrosoftCareerConferenceRegistration.aspx?pid=270 . Virtualization Career Training...

Hi everyone When Operations Manager 2007 was first released, a high amount of knowledge was required to successfully create your own management packs.  We started to make this easier with documentation for developers on MSDN, and we heard clear feedback...

Data Protection Manager for System Center 2012 provides significant performance improvement for backup and more flexibility in recovery for Hyper-V deployments. Hyper-V Express Full Backup: DPM 2012 has made significant improvement in Stand Alone Hyper...

Here is a scenario : “DPM Backups have failed because the SQL Server refused connection. The SLA has been missed thrice already in this week. The operator re-runs the backup the next day outside the backup window and it succeeds. Someone needs to answer...

We have a strong independent App-V Community in Europe and they meet from time to time in Microsoft offices to get the latest information about App-V and get connected to each other in the App-V business.  The meetings start in Germany as a German...

There are many questions on which components of network devices are monitored for System Center network monitoring. This post will hopefully clear up some of those questions as the post will cover what gets monitored and the conditions where the monitoring...

When launching a MED-V application, a user may get the following message: " Open virtual applications found. The virtual machine cannot be opened while virtual applications are open . Save any unsaved application data, and then click Close All to continue...

Here’s a new OpsMgr 2007 KB article we published today. If you’re looking for some tips on hotfixes and changes for System Center Operations Manager 2007 (OpsMgr) Agent Health then this one’s for you: ===== Summary This article is intended to give some...

We recently published some great case studies demonstrating how Microsoft IT uses System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 to provide state of the art backup and restore services while at the same time savings millions of dollars every year.  If...

A while back I wrote a blog post about why your custom views might be slow. For background on this post please read that post first: http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager/archive/2010/12/02/faq-why-is-my-custom-incident-view-so-slow.aspx Some...

Hopefully everybody is getting up to speed on type projections. If you haven’t yet had the fun of reading these posts I suggest doing it! Using the SDK to Create and Edit Objects and Relationships Using Type Projections Creating Views That...

Today, Microsoft re-released KB2616676 non-security update for customers using Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, which addresses an issue described in the “known issues” section of KB2616676. Customers who have enabled automatic...

A while back I wrote a post about showing computers which have certain software installed using Type Projections. Customers have asked how to create a view which shows those users which are the primary users of computers which have a certain software...

I wrote a quick sample console application to show how to use the SDK to access the history information about objects. The output looks like this: In this example, I created an incident and then changed the title on it. That created two “transactions”...

Hello, Today we published the September Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . We fielded 15 questions primarily regarding the Diginotar Certificate compromise and the associated Security Advisory. There was one question that we were...

Here’s a new MED-V KB article we published this morning that shows you how to use ProcMon to generate a log file for an application in the MED-V virtual environment: ===== Summary This article describes how to use the Process Monitor tool (ProcMon.exe...

Hi folks, I am Arun Chengi and I manage a team of very talented individuals who work tirelessly in delivering various software delivery services at Microsoft and to several external customers we manage. I have been in the IT industry for nearly 20...

In an effort to protect customers, last week we released Security Advisory 2607712 along with a non-security update to add fraudulent DigiNotar certificates to the Windows Untrusted Certificate Store. Today, we are releasing another update (2616676),...

For the Operations Manager 2012 release, we have made some big changes in the setup and upgrade areas to make the deployment experience more simple, intuitive, and easy to use. In this post, I’m going to go through some of the major changes in the...

Below is a blog post from one of our developers Subha Nellaiyappan.  Thanks for writing this up Subha! ========================================================================================== Scoping Overrides to a Group Currently we have a workflows...

Here’s a new SCVMM 2008 Knowledge Base article we published this morning. If you’re seeing an issue where a P2V fails at 79% with Error 551 or 0x80070002 then you’ll want to check this one out: ===== Symptoms A P2V conversion using System Center Virtual...

Here’s a new App-V Knowledge Base article we published this morning. If you’re seeing an issue where dialog boxes fail to open with a virtualized app then you’ll want to check this one out: ===== Symptoms Common dialogs such as File \ Open, Save, or Save...

Here’s a new DPM 2010 KB article we published this morning.  If you see an issue where some recovery point jobs fail intermittently when performing a host level backup of guests located on a CSV in Windows 2008 Hyper-V Cluster then this one’s for...

An update has been released to resolve issues where System Center Essentials updating Windows 7 SP1- based computers with locally published content may fail with error 0x80070570. Please refer to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2607070 for more details...