October, 2011

All thanks to Kevin Holman -some issues being reported – at least there are workarounds http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2011/09/30/opsmgr-new-base-os-mp-6-0-6956-0-adds-cluster-shared-volume-monitoring-bpa-and-many-changes.aspx...

Just a quick heads up on a new KB article we published today: ===== Symptom After upgrading a Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.6 client to App-V 4.6 Service Pack 1 (SP1), applications may fail to launch with the following error: The Application...

Just a quick heads up on a new KB article we published today: ===== Symptoms Installation of Virtual Guest Services (integration components) fails in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) but can be successfully installed manually in Hyper...

Just a quick heads up on one more new KB article we published today: ===== Symptoms Configuring SMTP Server information in System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 and System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 (DPM) fails with the following error:...

Just a quick heads up on one more new KB article we published today: ===== Symptoms Pushing the System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 (DPM) agent to a target computer fails with the following error: Install protection agent on name.domain.com failed...

Just a quick heads up on a new KB article we published today: ===== Symptoms A System Center Operations Manager 2007 (OpsMgr 2007) management server repeatedly logs events that are similar to the following: Event Type: Information Event Source: OpsMgr...

VMM 2012 introduces the concept of services: it allows defining service templates (blueprints of user applications), deploying services from service templates (creating VMs and applications), and servicing services with updated service templates (updating...

One of our Senior Escalation Support Engineers, Richard Usher, has encountered this problem with a few customers now and his written a handy blog post for those of you that may be experiencing this problem. Thanks Richard! ======================= I’ve...

Check out Deb McFadden's blog post, Principal Group Program Manager for Microsoft's Server and Cloud business, where she discusses the new Configuration Manager 2012 blog series that will be starting this week. Read Deb's post on the Microsoft Server...

Just a quick heads up on a new KB article we published today: ===== Symptoms Removing an old product connector from System Center Operations Manager 2007 (OpsMgr 2007) may be necessary if the product connector is no longer used in the environment. There...

http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2011/10/04/new-functionality-in-the-windows-server-core-os-mp-version-6-0-6957-0.aspx Kevin Holman has already written up on this MP at http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2011/09/30/opsmgr...

In VMM2012, sensitive data like RunAs Account passwords are encrypted using the configured encryption technology. There are two options for which technology to use for encryption key management. These are: 1.        DPAPI...

The first form customization people usually want to make to the incident form is to increase the size of the textbox so it can show more information at once without scrolling.  This is SUPER easy to do if you know how, but I’ve heard of customers...

In a previous post my friend and co-worker Dale introduced the new Dashboard capability in System Center Operations Manager 2012. He showed a screenshot of a dashboard containing a Performance Widget, but now I want to show you how to configure your own...

Nigel Cain, one of the Program Managers on the System Center engineering team has created a solution for better visualizing Unix/Linux computers in the SCSM console.  The management pack he built provides a type projection and a new form which looks...

Take a look at Jeffrey Sutherland's blog post, Lead Program Manager for Microsoft's Server and Cloud business, where he discusses how Configuration Manager 2012 can help you enable consumerization of IT. Read Jeffrey's post on the Microsoft Server...

An issue that we have been seeing with MED-V in all versions is the issue of the use of the LegalNoticeCaption and LegalNoticeText values creating disconnects with the seamless user experience while running MED-V workspaces. While the legal notice is...

Overview The Monitoring Pack for Active Directory (AD) provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of your Active Directory deployment. It monitors events that various Active Directory components and subsystems place in the Application, System...

Hello, As we do each month, we're providing advanced notification on the release of eight security bulletins, two Critical and six Important, to address 23 vulnerabilities across Internet Explorer, .NET Framework & Silverlight, Microsoft Windows...

Hello, On this October Update Tuesday, we are releasing the 11th volume of the Security Intelligence Report, SIRv11, which puts zero-day vulnerabilities into context against other global threats. We are also releasing eight security updates so please...

OM Community, System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 now supports SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 . Note: We will have the Supported Configuration posted in the next few weeks to make this more official, but feel free to go ahead and install it. Thanks! Nishtha...

Hello everyone! First let me introduce myself. My name is Frank Rojas and I am a Support Escalation Engineer at Microsoft Commerical Service and Support (CSS). I primarily support SMS 2003, ConfigMgr 2007, and the upcoming ConfigMgr 2012. My specialization...

Here’s another new KB article we published today.  This one involves the locale setting in Windows 7 when deployed with ConfigMgr 2007: ===== Symptoms When deploying a Windows 7 image using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr 2007...

Here’s another new KB article we published today. This one involves a conflict between App-V 4.5 and PGP: ===== Symptoms The Microsoft Application Virtualization Client service may fail to start on App-V 4.5 clients running on machines that also have...

Here’s another new KB article we published today. This one describes and issue where a dynamic disk goes offline after a reboot: ===== Symptoms Consider the following scenario:   You have a Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 computer running System...