January, 2012

I get this question from time to time.  People are used to downloading some separate package that includes the SDK because that is how Windows and a few other Microsoft products do it.  Since our entire product is built on top of the SDK we...

What do you do when you get a screen like this? Not exactly a lot of information to go on there. Don’t worry, we have a Silverlight log file that system admins can grab to see the details of what the problems are. Here’s how to find the log file. 1) On...

Check out Symon Perriman's blog post to learn more about Free Microsoft Private Cloud Training. Read Symon's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog. http://bit.ly/x40CYw ...read more

Please join us for a high level discussion into Microsoft software investments designed to cover most of the major product lines.  This will be a 35,000 foot view into the following areas: Windows Family Virtualization Office System Unified Communications...

Hi everyone, Mark Stanfill here and today I wanted to take a minute to quickly tell you about an issue I recently ran into where the MED-V Host Agent Setup (MED-V 2.0 Host Agent) fails with the following error message: MED-V Host Agent Setup MED-V Host...

So - now that the Release Candidate of System Center 2012 is out and the general availbility is fast approaching you may be starting to get more serious about getting up to speed on System Center 2012. Am I right? Don't even worry! We are here to help...

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, a management solution for the virtualized data center, lets a system administrator manage virtualization hosts, networking, and storage resources. With Virtual Machine Manager 2012, you can optimize...

Microsoft IT has supported the consumerization of IT for years at Microsoft and continues to define the balance between hardware/productivity and software/security. Consumerization of IT has remarkable potential for improving collaboration, productivity...

At the webcast this morning Satya Nadella, President of the Server and Tools Division, and Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President of Management and Security at Microsoft announced the availability of System Center 2012 RC and introduced the new licensing...

Hi everyone, Joao Madureira here.  Here on the WSUS support team we occasionally run into an issue where all of the client machines at a customer site suddenly and unexpectedly start accessing the Microsoft Update site and downloading all available...

Hi everyone, Tyler Franke here again with another issue I ran into recently.  Consider a scenario wherein System Center Configuration Manager 2007 has been installed and service packed to the latest (SP2) build. Now let's assume that the Evaluation...

Looking to get some hands-on lab work on how to do infrastructure and application performance monitoring with System Center 2012 – Operations Manager?  If so then this one’s for you: ===== Deploying the infrastructure for a private cloud is just...

There is a really important web cast that is happening tomorrow that I wanted to remind you all about. You won't want to miss it. Here is the description of the event. Registration link is below. The definition, business value, and technology...

Hi everyone, Tyler Franke here with another ConfigMgr tip for you.  Have you ever been working in the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 admin console and found that when you  right-click on a user in a collection, select properties and...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today on SCOM 2007.  This one talks about an issue where ACS reports only return a max of 42 days worth of data: ===== Symptoms When using System Center Operations Manager 2007, the audit database...

Here’s a new KB article we published today. This one tells you how to fix an issue where error code 0000C800 is generated when connecting to the App-V Management Console: ===== Symptoms When connecting to the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App...

It has been a while since we posted some new information about APM in OpsMgr 2012. Michael wrote a post in August, about working with Alerts , which was following up on a couple of previous ones about how to get things running , how APM works , and how...

Hi, I am Naveen Kumar Akkugari and I work at Microsoft in the Management Platforms and Service Delivery (MPSD) organization. I work on the Configuration Manager Infrastructure team which provides services to roughly 300,000 client machines at Microsoft...

Hello, Today we published the January Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . We fielded nine questions on various topics during the webcast , including bulletins released, deployment tools, and update detection tools. There were two...

Hi everyone, Tyler Franke here. Recently I worked with a customer who was seeing an issue where Software Updates would no longer synchronize from WSUS, plus the ones that previously did sync and were deployed were not available to clients.  We did...

Hi everyone, David Smith here.  I’m a Senior Support Engineer here on the ConfigMgr team and I recently came across an interesting issue that I thought might be worth a mention here on our blog.  In this case, an Operating System Deployment...

Hi everyone, Alvin Morales here.  Recently a customer wanted to sequence Microsoft Office 2010 with Dynamics CRM 2011 using the Offline mode with Outlook, and although we don't have an official support statement on this (meaning we haven’t fully...

Microsoft’s own Chandan Bharti posted another great article over on his personal blog about how to create a diagnostic task for Unix/Linux services in System Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM 2007). This one actually builds on his previous post about...

Microsoft’s own Chandan Bharti recently posted a great article over on his personal blog about how to create a recovery task for Linux services in System Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM 2007).  If you’re looking to do the same then you’ll want...

Hello. As I previously mentioned in the Advance Notification Service blog post on Thursday, today we are releasing seven security bulletins, one of which is rated Critical in severity, with the remaining six classified as Important. These bulletins...