January, 2012

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today that applies to both VMM 2008 and VMM 2012. This one talks about an error you can get when trying to add a Host or Cluster to System Center Virtual Machine Manager: ===== Symptoms Adding a Hyper-V...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where a restricted user can attempt certain actions that they don't have permission to yet get a (false) message indicating it was successful. ===== Symptoms When using...

Just found this great article over in our public TechNet Wiki titled System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Survival Guide .  If you’re looking at or already running ConfigMgr 2012 then you’ll definitely want to add this one to your IE Favorites...

Many of our existing Configuration Manager customers are used to thinking in terms of installing and configuring sites, and then configuring individual features, such as hardware inventory, software distribution, and software updates. This reflected the...

New from our community driven TechNet Wiki: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM 2010) offers with its new console in the creation of a protection group in System Protection, a new option called "Bare Metal Recovery". This option...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today on VMM 2012 and SCOM. This one talks about a couple potential integration issues you may run into after configuring OpsMgr integration with System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager: ===== Symptoms...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today on ConfigMgr 2007. This one talks about a couple issues you might run into if you use the Site Repair Wizard to restore a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 site server from a 32-bit Operating...

Hi everyone, Marc Reynolds here. I have seen some issues recently where the System Center Data Protection Manager Admin Console crashes and logs an Event ID 945 any time any changes were made.   The information below describes the issue, how...

Check out Travis Wright’s blog and learn more about the System Center Cloud Services Management Pack Release Candidate that is now available for download. The System Center Cloud Services Process Pack offers a self-service experience to facilitate...

This weekend I was preparing for a DW/Reporting demo at a conference next week.  I know – I need to get a life!  I needed to quickly move data that I was generating on the CMDB side over to the DW and get it loaded up in the cubes.  I didn...

Ever wanted to process all the dimensions in the warehouse?  I did while I was preparing for a presentation.  I got tired of doing them one at a time so I figured out how to do it with PowerShell.  I ran this on my SQL Server that had the...

This blog post was written up by one of the senior developers on our team - Martha Amirzadeh.  Thanks Martha! ============================== One of the common customer requests that we come across is for the ability to add a specific Service Manager...

Check out David Mills's blog post to learn more about Creating and Offering a Private Cloud. Read David's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog. http://bit.ly/xxjoAO ...read more

Check out John Allwright's blog post, Senior Product Manager for System Center, where he announces the general availability of System Center Advisor. Read John’s post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog . ...read more

One of our Senior Technology Specialists, Tiander Turpijn, has created a really nice extended-length demo video of using System Center 2012 to manage a private cloud.  Lots of great demo scenarios in here that show managing different aspects of a...

This is a guest blog post by Sam Erskine, one of our community contributors. Thanks for sharing Sam! ============================================ The default incident request offering in Server manager 2012 uses the same incident classification...

This is guest blog post from two of our most prolific community contributors Andreas Baumgarten and Anders Asp. Thanks for sharing with the community guys! ================================================== As I already mentioned in my blog post about...

This is guest blog post from two of our most prolific community contributors Andreas Baumgarten and Anders Asp. Thanks for sharing with the community guys! ================================================== Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2012...

The Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library and the Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager have been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: January 1, 2012 at the top of the topic. New this month...

The below article was first published over The Configuration Manager Support Team Blog site. However we recently discovered that the method described in the article would only work when deploying from an Operating System Install Package (deploying from...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today on SCOM 2007. This one talks about configuration churn, what can cause it and how you can address it if you see it in your environment: ===== Configuration Overview The System Center Management Configuration...

Hi everyone, Alvin Morales here.  This article presents possible errors and issues you may encounter after setting Operations Manager integration with System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM 2012).  Note that this can apply to System...

Check out Russ Wilson's blog post to learn more about Keeping System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Clients Active and Healthy. Read Russ's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog. http://bit.ly/wwMLmj ...read more

Michael wrote a post in August, about working with Alerts .  One of the key takeaways from that post, is that – for each application and for each application component – we have FOUR Alerting rules, that can be turned on or off from the APM Template...

We’re happy to announce the Beta release of Orchestrator Integration Packs for HP Service Manager and HP iLO & OA. We released our first HP IP, HP Ops Manager, to beta in Dec and now we’re ready to release our 2 nd and 3 rd HP IPs, Service Manager...