October, 2011

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 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 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...

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...