September, 2011

Hi everyone, Alvin Morales here.  When System Center Configuration Manager 2007/Application Virtualization (App-V) integration is enabled, System Center Configuration Manager takes over for the App-V client and runs an SFTMIME “delete” operation...

If you’re looking for a good resource for troubleshooting OpsMgr 2007 client agent install issues then this new KB article we published today is for you: ===== Symptoms The System Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM 2007) agent can be deployed to Windows...

Just a quick heads up that we posted a couple minor doc updates for WSUS over in TechNet today: ===== Today our last wave of updates for this month just went live, here are those (both related to WSUS): - Configure the network connections: the update...

We are very excited to announce the release of DPM 2012 Beta. Some of the big enhancements include: Centralized Management of DPM Servers (built on top of System Center Operations Manager ) A Central Console from which you can monitor and manage all the...

Microsoft’s investigation into the scope and impact of the DigiNotar compromise has continued over the holiday weekend. We’ve now confirmed that spoofed certificates for *.microsoft.com and *.windowsupdate.com are among those issued by the...

  DPM 2012 provides the capability to protect Workgroup computers and computers in untrusted domains using Certificates for the purpose of authentication. If you are already using DPM 2010, you have the ability to protect machines without trust by...

It’s all about reducing management costs. We not only wanted to provide a Central Console which effectively aggregates status across of your DPM Servers, but can make your every day tasks of managing the backup environment seamless thereby reducing your...

What is Standard Data Set Maintenance? Standard Data Set Maintenance is a workflow that runs against the Data Warehouse to aggregate, optimize, and groom data. This workflow runs on the RMS and is triggered every 60 seconds. There is a hard-coded timeout...

Today we’re updating Security Advisory 2607712 , to announce that based on our investigation, we’ve deemed all DigiNotar certificates to be untrustworthy and have moved them to the Untrusted Certificate Store. Additionally, we have extended...

When we started work on Centralized Management, it became very apparent that we need a UI that not only presents a summary of the entire DPM environment, but also Enables customers to work on more important issues first – like working on alerts affecting...

Here’s a new SCVMM 2008/OpsMgr 2007 KB article we published this morning.  If you’re seeing an issue where PRO Tips alerts are unexpectedly being removed from the PRO Tips alerts window then you’ll want to check this one out: ===== Symptoms PRO Tips...

Here’s a new App-V KB article we published this today. If you ever need to troubleshoot client refresh issues with an App-V server then there’s no better place to start than right here: ===== Summary This article covers how to troubleshoot failures when...

Here’s a new App-V KB article we published this today. If you ever need to troubleshoot issues where a client fails to stream a virtualized app from the App-V server then there’s no better place to start than right here: ===== Summary...

When you package a workspace in MED-V, you will need to determine if this workspace will be deployed to a machine where multiple users will be logging on or a single user. If you will be dealing with multiple users, you have two options for deploying...

Most enterprises have a centralized team which amongst other responsibilities also handles running of the backup service in their organization. It is a considerable challenge to effectively delegate work to the various support teams while retaining control...

Below is a blog post from one of our Senior dev leads, Jakub Oleksy.  Thanks for creating this solution and writing it up Jakub!  I’ve wanted to do this for a long time but have just never gotten to it. =====================================...

Hello everyone, As we do each month, we're providing advanced notification on the release of five Important security bulletins to help protect customers using Microsoft Windows and Office. As usual, the bulletin release is scheduled for the second...

The VMM team is proud to announce the public availability of the Release Candidate for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (VMM). It is ready for download as a full install package or as a vhd . As with the previous release there are a number of...

As was posted in our Server and Cloud Platform Blog , I just wanted to let you know that the Release Candidate of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (VMM) was released today! You can either download the Full Install Package , or a pre-configured...

[ Brian Huneycutt provides today’s blog post] An issue with the client patch process was recently discovered, which might lead to Configuration Manager 2007 R3 clients failing to load power policy. Affected clients are those that have applied...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...