December, 2011

Hello, Today we published the December 2011 Out-of-Band Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . We fielded 41 questions on the subject of MS11-100 . There were four questions during the webcast that we were unable to answer and we...

Hosts: Jonathan Ness, Security Development Manager, MSRC Pete Voss, Sr. Response Communications Manager, Trustworthy Computing Website: TechNet/Security Chat Topic: December 2011 Out-Of-Band Security Bulletin Release Date: Thursday, December...

Hello, Today we released Security Update MS11-100 to address the issue described in Security Advisory 2659883 . The security update has a severity rating of Critical and resolves a publicly disclosed remote unauthenticated Denial of Service issue...

Hello, Today we’re providing advance notification for an out-of-band security update to address the publicly disclosed issue described in Security Advisory 2659883 . The release is scheduled for tomorrow, December 29, at approximately 10 a.m...

Check out Kenon Owen's blog post to learn more about Aggregating and Abstracting Resources to offer Private Clouds. Read Kenon's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog. http://bit.ly/vsv2ZR ...read more

Hello, Today we published Security Advisory 2659883 to provide a workaround to help protect ASP.NET customers from a publicly disclosed vulnerability that affects various Web platforms industry-wide. We are not aware of any attacks using this vulnerability...

This is kind of old news, but I’ll just throw it out there just in case you didn’t see it when it originally came out. The Integration Pack for Active Directory is an add-on for System Center 2012 Orchestrator that enables you to connect System Center...

The Microsoft Solution Accelerator and the System Center teams are pleased to announce the beta of the Microsoft System Center 2012 IT GRC Process Pack for Service Manager. This solution provides end-to-end management of people, process, and technology...

Alongside the other System Center components, Service Manager content and materials are being hosted on the new "System Center in the Datacenter and Cloud" Connect Site. The current Service Manager connect site will retired shortly and you will...

Check out Adam Hall's blog post to learn more about Application deployment models in a Private Cloud. Read Adam's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog. http://bit.ly/vOqRxX ...read more

One of the cool new features in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (SCVMM 2012) is the ability to execute commands remotely to a host. This feature can be useful in scenarios where you want to start a service or collect information from a remote...

Hello, Chuck Whitson here from the Data Protection Manager Team here in Texas. Lately, we’ve had several customers run into issues with sharing their tape library between multiple DPM servers so I’ve put together some of the things that have been known...

Here’s a new KB article we published today. This one describes an issue where the WinRM command fails with Access Denied and error number: -2147024891 0x8007005: ===== Symptoms After installing the UNIX/Linux agent for System Center Operations Manager...

Within the properties of a host, we now have a new section named "Status".  This interface provides a general idea of the health state of the agent, before you needed to connect to the server and see if services were started. As a result...

The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager has been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: December 1, 2011 at the top of the topic. There are no significant updates for the Configuration Manager 2007 documentation...

Hello, Today we published the December Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . We fielded six questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released, deployment tools, and update detection tools. For more details...

Greetings, Here are some great cross blog posts from a PM on our SCVMM Team, Hector Linares.  Enjoy! Windows Server 8: Standards-Based Storage Management   SCVMM 2012: Live from SNIA SMILab Plugfest – Creating 50 VMs using SAN based Rapid Provisioning...

Hosts: Jonathan Ness, Security Development Manager, MSRC Jerry Bryant, Group Manager, Trustworthy Computing Communications Website: TechNet/Security Chat Topic: December 2011 Security Bulletin Release Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 Q:...

Here’s another KB article we published today. This one describes a problem where the SCOM 2007 Config Service may consume 100% CPU utilization on servers that have 8 or more cores: ===== Symptoms On machines that have more than eight (8) CPU cores, you...

Read Bill Anderson's blog post to learn more about Managing Settings and Compliance with Configuration Manager 2012. See Bill's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog. http://bit.ly/vFmBfS ...read more

Here’s a heads up on another great article I found over on the TechNet Wiki.  This one was written by Microsoft’s own Yuri Diogenes and talks about the supportability (or lack thereof) of HTTPS Inspection of the traffic between Microsoft Update and...

Hi everyone – Mike Reavey here. Today, we’re releasing our December set of security updates. As we do every month, we're providing a heads-up on what’s coming in this month’s release as well as offering links to more information...

Hello. As I previously mentioned in the Advance Notification Service blog post on Thursday, today we are releasing 13 security bulletins, three of which are rated Critical in severity, and 10 Important. These bulletins will increase protection by addressing...

Here’s another KB article we published today. This one describes a problem where the SCOM 2007 console may crash while setting the scale on a performance view if the performance counters have hugely different values: ===== Summary While working in the...

Hi everyone, Marc Reynolds here. I have seen some issues recently where DPM volumes are flagged as “missing” in the DPM console so I wanted to take a minute and show you an easy way to fix this. Symptoms In System Center Data Protection Manager, DPM volumes...