November, 2011

MED-V builds on top of the RAIL (Remote Applications Installed locally) model that is also in Virtual PC for Windows 7 and Windows XP Mode for Windows 7. Unlike XP Mode or Virtual PC (which put the applications in a specific Start menu Folder) MED...

Here’s one more article I found over on the TechNet Wiki that was written by Microsoft’s very own Steve Thomas. This one talks about some GPO settings that could potentially cause issues with MED-V features: ===== MED-V V2 leverages underlying VPC and...

Hi everyone, Madelinde here.  Since the release of the Dynamics AX 2012 client, we have received a couple of issues when customers try to virtualize this new client using Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 Service Pack 1. Earlier versions of...

Here’s a KB article we published today on ConfigMgr 2007. This one describes a hotfix/update we released that addresses an issue where a Task sequence fails with an "0x80004005" error code in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2: ==...

Here’s another great article I found over on the TechNet Wiki that was written by Microsoft’s very own Steve Thomas. This one goes through and explains the various MEDVHost.EXE command line options such as exit, FullScreen, RebootVM, toolkit and others...

Here’s another great article I found over on the TechNet Wiki that was written by Microsoft’s very own Steve Thomas. This one walks you through how to adjust, increase or reduce the RTCP/RTP port ranges for use with RTSP in App-V: ===== To stream applications...

Microsoft’s very own Kevin Holman just posted a great article over on his blog talking about an issue where Logical Disk free space alerts don’t show percent and MB free values in the alert description in SCOM 2007.  If you haven’t seen it yet then...

In a previous blog article, I wrote about the differences between NAT and Bridged Mode in MED-V v2. The differences between the two were discussed in detail. You can find the article here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/medv/archive/2011/11/03/nat-mode...

Here’s another KB article we published today. This one tells you how to fix an issue where trying to launch a virtualized application on a Remote Desktop Web Access server ends up launching a different one: ===== Symptoms When users login to a Remote...

Here’s another KB article we published today.  This one describes how to change the Operations Manager 2007 Admin group if the original was deleted from Active Directory: ===== Symptoms When attempting to login to the System Center Operations Manager...

Here’s a great article I found over on the TechNet Wiki that was written by Microsoft’s own Steve Thomas. This one shows how an enterprise administrator can determine MED-V 2.0 FTS completion and provide remediation quickly: ===== When deploying large...

Here’s a great article I found over on the TechNet Wiki that was written by Microsoft’s own Steve Thomas. This one talks about an important additional step you need to take when virtualizing (sequencing) .NET 2.0 Framework in App-V 4.6 and above for Windows...

Here’s a heads up on another great article I found over on the TechNet Wiki that was written by Microsoft’s own Yuri Diogenes. This one walks you through publishing Windows Server Updates Services (WSUS) 3 SP2 using Forefront TMG 2010 SP2: ===== This...

Fletcher Kelly (@fskelly), who works at one one of the early adopters customers for SCSM shares his upgrade experience and tips with us below.  You’ll remember Fletcher from his earlier guest blog post on Setting up a Pre-Production Test Environment...

Kurt Van Hoecke, one of the authors of the SCSM 2010 Unleashed book presented a few sessions over the last few months at the Best of MMS in Belgium and the Belgian System Center User Group’s System Center Day 2011. The session were recorded and posted...

Kurt Van Hoecke, one of the authors of the SCSM 2010 Unleashed book presented a few sessions over the last few months at the Best of MMS in Belgium and the Belgian System Center User Group’s System Center Day 2011. The session were recorded and posted...

Kurt Van Hoecke, one of the authors of the SCSM 2010 Unleashed book presented a few sessions over the last few months at the Best of MMS in Belgium and the Belgian System Center User Group’s System Center Day 2011. The session were recorded and posted...

Have you downloaded and started testing the Systems Center - 2012 Service Manager Beta yet? If you have, We would like to hear from you! Please tell us what you think by completing the Service Manager Beta Usage Survey Allow about 20 minutes to take the...

One of our partners - VAS Value Added Services GmbH  - will be hosting a no cost webinar on the service catalog in December.  Here are the details. 1. Webinar “Service Request Fulfillment” with SCSM 2012 Date:                   ...

It supersedes SP1 Cumulative Update 2 (CU2) and contains a superset of the fixes that are provided in SP1 CU2. It can be applied to SP1 CU2 or directly to a Service Manager 2010 SP1 installation. This update contains a set of bug fixes to the Service...

Here’s one more KB article we just published today. This one talks about an issue where App-V database jobs fail if you have the wrong DB selected I the SQL Server Jobs configuration: ===== Symptoms The App-V Management Server installation creates database...

Here’s another good KB article we just published today. This one talks about an issue where you get a 00000003 or 0000000A error when trying to launch a virtualized application from an App-V client: ===== Symptoms You receive the following error when...

Check out Bryan Keller and Deb McFadden's blog post to learn how Configuration Manager 2012 offers streamlined client management and VDI. Read Bryan and Deb's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog . ...read more

One of our implementation partners – Acceleres – is hosting a webinar on implementing SCSM 2012 this week.  Here’s the details. Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2012 Implementation Webinar 11/17/2011 10:30AM PDT Service Manager 2012 RTM version...

Applications consist of a set of resources (e.g. files, registry values, services, web sites, WMI providers, etc.) that work together to deliver product functionality. When one of these resources is not configured or functioning properly, the application...