December, 2011

Here’s another KB article we published today. This one describes a problem where deploying the SCOM 2007 Linux Agent fails with "The certificate Common Name (CN) does not match" due to a certificate issue: ===== Symptoms Attempting to deploy...

Check out Mark Florida's blog post to learn how System Center Configuration Manager 2012 and System Center End Point Protection 2012 help you manage security! Read Mark's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog. http://bit.ly/uOA70v ...read...

Hello all. Before we look at next week’s bulletin release, we’d like to point out an update to our Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) that should provide customers with greater transparency as to how MAPP partners use the information...

Hello, Lee Stevens again with a collection reporting tip… So, here is a great little query that you can use to compare two tables for systems that happen to be in both collections.  In this query, we will be finding computer names, their joined domain...

Here’s another good KB article we published today on SCVMM 2008. This one describes an issue that may generate a couple different errors when trying to do a P2V of Windows Server 2003 (32-bit or 64-bit): ===== Symptoms When using System Center Virtual...

Here’s another good KB article we published today on ConfigMgr 2007. This one describes an issue you may run into with USMT restores and how to fix it: ===== Symptoms When using the prestaged media feature in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3...

Here’s another good KB article we published today. This one talks about an issue in VMM 2008 where adding a cluster host that contains an SCVMM server as one of the nodes will fail with a 406 error: ===== Symptoms When trying to add a cluster to System...

There are many failures that can happen when protecting Hyper-V hosts and CSV’s that are a result of the Cluster network configuration not being optimized for redirected mode communication. In most cases these problems will only happen under a heavy load...

This is a pretty common ask so here is a quick blog post on how to get a User’s manager or a Manager’s reports using SMLets . A users manger is a relationship between the user object and the manager’s user object. The Relationship type name is: UserManagesUser...

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

Introduction You have just gone through the process of sequencing a package, you go to deploy it in your test environment and you get an error message that says “The operation could not be completed successfully because a WMI class or provider in the...

Hi everyone, Madelinde here again.  Some time ago I was working on a reporting issue for App-V and because this issue keeps popping up every once in a while I thought I’d write a blog post about it so you would be aware of it as well. NOTE Before...

Check out Adam Hall's blog post to learn how to manage and monitor Windows Azure applications with System Center 2012. Read Adam's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog. http://bit.ly/vkyTnT ...read more

Ever wanted to have a way to view the permissions that each user role has in an a glance view? PowerShell to the rescue! Attached to this blog post is a PowerShell script that you can run on your SM Management Server to produce a “report”...

Hi, my name is Dharmendra Thotakura. I am an engineer at Microsoft, and I specialize in Configuration Manager Application Management, Application Catalog, Role Based Access and User Device Affinity. For my first post on this System Center in Action blog...