September, 2011

Windows Server Operating System Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=9296 Overview The Windows Server Operating System management pack consists of the following five management packs...

[Today’s announcement comes from Brian Huneycutt ] The Sustained Engineering team has released an update to the “Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007...

[Today's post is from the Configuration Manager Writing Team ] The Configuration Manager 2012 documentation library has been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: September 1, 2011 at the top of the topic. There are no significant...

Just a quick heads up on a new KB article we published today: ===== Symptoms The installation (setup) of the AVIcode agent on a computer fails with the following error: “1324 Error.” The Path “My Documents” contains an invalid character. Cause This is...

Setting up the Operations Manager Web Part Why would you want to do this? General Prerequisites Installing the Web Part Setting up a Target Application in the SharePoint Secure Store (Optional) Setting up the Web Part Environment ...

As you’ve likely seen or heard, System Center Operations Manager 2012 contains significant enhancements in the ability to display data through the use of its new dashboard technologies. This post is the first in a series of dashboard-related posts...

SQL Server 2008 R2 provides a Sysprep functionality as an advanced installation option: it is a two-step installation process just like the Windows Sysprep tool, which allows user to install SQL Server setup files (Prepare Image step) and then configure...

Here’s one more KB article we published today. Enjoy! ===== Symptoms On a Windows Server 2008 R2 RDS server running the App-V Client version 4.6.0.20200, after Internet Explorer 8 is upgraded to Internet Explorer 9, the Microsoft Compiled HTML Help files...

Just a quick heads up on another new ConfigMgr KB article we posted today: ===== Symptoms You may find that you are unable to inventory HKLM\Software registry keys on 64-bit (x64) Windows client machines without first populating the data under the Wow6432Node...

Here’s another KB article we published today.  It’s a regular fountain of new content! ===== Summary The concept of a shared, or read-only cache was introduced in version 4.6 of the Microsoft Application Virtualization client. When using App-V in...

Hello. Today we released Security Advisory 2588513 , addressing an information-disclosure issue in SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) 3.0 and TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.0 to provide guidance for customers. This is an industry-wide issue with limited impact...

Just a quick heads up on a new KB article we published today: ===== Symptoms Some computers may reboot unexpectedly after they are removed from a collection in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr 2007) when that collection has a maintenance...

Just a quick heads up on a new KB article we published today: ===== Symptoms Virtual machines report 'Unsupported Cluster Configuration' in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM). The "Refresh Host Cluster" job takes 15-20 minutes...

Congratulations to our 2 SCOM 2012 Beta Survey Sweepstakes winners: Vedran Matica and Silvio Di Benedetto They each won an XBox 360 and Kinect! T hank-you to everyone that completed surveys, your feedback will help us deliver a better product...

If you know Dan Rogers from the Operations Manager forums and industry events in the OM space, you'll want to subscribe to his new blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/manageability_aint_easy/ ...read more...( read more ) ...read more

Just a quick heads up on a new KB article we published today: ===== Symptoms When connecting a Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) client version 4.5 or later to a legacy Softgrid server (i.e. one running a version prior to 4.5) you may get the...

Hi everyone, Luke Ramsdale here.  Recently I worked on an issue with MDT 2010 Update 1 that was integrated with Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 where some applications failed to install after being added via the UDI wizard. In this particular case...

  One of the  very first operational steps when using System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012 or an earlier version of VMM is adding a host. In VMM 2012 , this can be a Hyper-V, VMware ESX or a Citrix XenServer host. This article applies...

[Today’s post contributor is Lin Tang ] Overview Role-based administration (RBA) is a new feature introduced in Configuration Manager 2012. RBA provides Configuration Manager administrators with an easy way to implement the security model...

We’ve had quite a few developers ask us for the Management Pack schema file (.xsd).  We’ve now made that available as part of the SM Jobs Aids downloadable package.  This is useful for any dev that is creating management packs by hand in XML...

Virtualization Career Training On Tuesday, October 4 th 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...

Here’s an example of how to update objects “in bulk” programmatically using the SDK. In this example, I’ll get all the incidents in the system and set their status to Pending. This examples uses the IncrementalDiscoveryData...

In our documentation for authoring Operations Manager management packs, we regularly reference the Management Pack Development Kit , mainly the Module Type Reference that includes reference documentation for the modules that are included in the standard...

Paul and Rich go through the detailed steps required to add the Windows Intune client software to an operating system deployment image. Additional details can also be found in the online help topic here . ...read more

Hi everyone, Eddy Pacay here once again with some useful knowledge on MP Authoring and rules for performance collection in System Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM 2007). I have recently come across a very unique scenario where a single performance...