December, 2011

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”...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 – 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 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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...