October, 2011

I can’t imagine why anyone would ever want to uninstall the best, most secure browser out there but hey, you never know.  If you ever find yourself in that position then MVP Bechir Gharbi just posted a great article on how to do just that over in...

Hello, Shane Brasher here. I’d like to go over some very basic troubleshooting steps used to narrow down some common causes on initial replication and just plain replication failures for System State and Bare Metal backups. Troubleshooting a System State...

Hi folks, my name is Vinayak Sharma and I would like to share some information regarding McAfee Access protection rule and ccmexec.exe behavior. I have read a few McAfee articles where people were complaining about ccmexec.exe and why it triggers the...

I know this is probably old news to all of you already, but I didn’t get a chance to blog it earlier this week when it happened because I was traveling. SCSM 2012 public beta is now released on the download center!  You can get it from here: http...

Just a quick heads up that a new SCSM user group has been formed in Cologne, Germany.  You can find the web site for the group and more information here: http://www.scsmug.de As a reminder or if you didn’t already know there is also a US-based SCSM...

  When the Update Management feature is enabled in VMM 2012, the admin starts by adding a pre-built WSUS server to VMM 2012.  The following blog details how to use the VMM Sample baselines created when VMM 2012  adds an Update Server (WSUS...

Check out Adam Hall's blog post, Senior Technical Product Manager for System Center, where he introduces App Controller 2012, a new member of the System Center family. Read Adam's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog . ...read more

One of the folks on our team just posted about his infrastructure experience in MSIT migrating to System Center Configuration Manager 2012. Read about his experience here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shitanshu/archive/2011/10/16/configuration-manager-2012...

Check out Adwait Joshi's blog post, Senior Technical Product Manager for System Center, where he announces the availability of the release candidates for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection (formerly known...

Check out Anant Sundaram's blog post, Senior Product Manager for System Center, where he discusses the newly released betas of System Center App Controller 2012 and System Center Service Manager 2012 and the new public release candidate of System Center...

The below article outlines the steps that should be taken if a Task Sequence is deployed to an incorrect set of computers. Since mistargeting a Task Sequence could result in total data loss on the computers that were mistargeted, time is of essense to...

Here’s another good KB article we published today that shows you how to import AVIcode 5.7 templates after upgrading to the 2012 version of OpsMgr: ===== Symptoms After upgrading a System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 management group that was integrated...

Here’s another good KB article we published today. If you’re seeing an issue where ConfigMgr fails to find a task sequence then this one is for you: ===== Symptoms When trying to start a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr 2007) OSD Task...

Here’s another good KB article we published today. If you’re seeing error 268480357 on your App-V server then you’ll want to check this one out. ===== Symptoms The Application Virtualization Management Server service may fail to start on a Microsoft Application...

Take a look at Bryan Keller's blog post, Lead Program Manager for System Center Configuration Manager, where he discusses the Application Catalog functionality that is now available in Configuration Manager 2012. Read Bryan's post on the Microsoft...

Operations Manager 2012 network monitoring functions differently than it did in Operations Manager 2007. Monitoring for existing instances of network devices is backwards compatible, but no new devices can be added using the existing monitoring. These...

Here’s another great new KB article we published today. This one will tell you how to fix an issue where a P2V fails with error 8007001F: ===== Symptoms A System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion fails when...

Here’s a great new KB article we published today.  If you’re seeing errors after adding a pre-launch script to one of your App-V packages then you’ll want to check this one out: ===== Symptoms A known good Microsoft Application Virtualization (App...

Here’s one more KB article we published today. This one talks about an issue where the reinstallation of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 fails with "Library Share ‘MSSCVMMLibrary’ already exists": ===== Symptoms When attempting...

Here’s a great new KB article we published today. This one talks about a potential issue you might see one your App-V/ConfigMgr 2007 clients.  If you’re running these now or have plans to do so in the future you’ll probably want to give this one...

This article is regarding an issue we originally blogged about over at The Configuration Manager Support Team Blog regarding issues with PXE booting caused by duplicate SMBIOS GUIDs.. At the time that we wrote the article we really didn’t have a...

Take a look at Bill Anderson's blog post, Principal Program Manager Lead for System Center Configuration Manager, where he discusses the user/device affinity features in Configuration Manager 2012. Read Bill's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud...

Check out Bill Anderson's blog post, Principal Program Manager Lead for System Center Configuration Manager, where he discusses user centric app deployment and the challenges of "thinking user first." Read Bill's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud...

In a previous post , my co-worker Chris showed off our new Performance Widget and detailed how to configure it. Continuing with our series of post on Dashboards and Widgets in System Center Operations Manager 2012, today I plan on focusing on configuring...

Here’s another good KB article we published today.  If you’re seeing error 0x80070520 when trying to deploy the OpsMgr agent then this one is for you: ===== Summary Deploying agents from the Operations Manager Shell using the Install-Agent cmdlet...