February, 2012

With the impending launch of System Center 2012, we thought now would be a fine time to move our standalone AVIcode blog and integrate it fully into our Operations Manager team blog at http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/ .  Starting today, all future...

Ever wondered where Update Tuesday bulletins come from, or what it’s like around Microsoft when a serious information-security situation arises? Or wondered who precisely is responsible for getting your monthly bulletin releases out the door? ...

With the impending release of System Center 2012 Operations Manager, we thought now would be the perfect time to consolidate our blog properties and give you a single, concise gateway into the world of all that is Operations Manager.  No longer will...

Here’s a new Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) 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...

This blog post was written by Andreas Baumgarten ( blog in German ), one of our super community contributors.  Thanks Andreas! ===================================================== Including Links to Incidents or Activities in Notification Templates...

There may be circumstances when you want to copy a System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM 2010) recovery point from a tape in the primary tape library to a tape in the library configured as the copy library.  In DPM 2010, if you have multiple...

Just a quick FYI that we recently released Hotfix Package 5 for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 SP1 dated December 2011.  I don’t think I mentioned this one before so if you haven’t seen it you’ll want to check it out: ===== This article...

In Service Catalog portal, the Create Generic Request button is wired to create an Incident. Although you can modify the Generic Request Incident Request Offering, you cannot change the Generic Incident Request Template. Customers have asked ability...

Symptoms: When you use the Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2010 Group Policy Tool to import a policy file that was exported from System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection, it will fail with a screenshot similar to the following: Cause: The...

One of our System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management MVPs, Kristian Nese, wrote up a great article on his blog describing services in System Center Virtual Machine Manager.  I definitely recommend taking a read through that if you are new to...

This is from one of our datacenter TSPs, John Savill.  Thanks for writing this up John! ================================================================= Q. I am trying to import the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Discovery Management...

We have created a new forum under the Operations Manager forum category on TechNet for Application Performance Monitoring (APM).  Please feel free to fire away questions to Microsoft, the MVPs, and the broader community, answer questions , and have...

Hello. Today we’re releasing our advance notification for the February security bulletin release, which is scheduled for Tuesday, February 14. This month’s release includes nine bulletins addressing 21 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows...

Read Sean Christiansen's blog post to download System Center 2012 Release Candidate Orchestrator Integration Packs. Check out Sean's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog. http://bit.ly/ztYcY6 ...read more

Following the release of System Center 2012 Release Candidate, Microsoft is pleased to announce the availability of the Release Candidate of the Orchestrator Integration Packs for the following System Center 2012 components: System Center 2012 Virtual...

I just came across a great blog post over on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Blog that I thought I’d share with you.  It was written by Microsoft’s own Kenon Owens and covers over a lot of information about using System Center 2012 Virtual...

Read Kenon Owens's blog post to learn more about Dynamic Optimization of the Private Cloud Infrastructure. Check out Kenon's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog. http://bit.ly/zr6fLu ...read more

Hi everyone, John Behneman here.  The purpose of this article is to outline the steps necessary to migrate or move a Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Database from one SQL server 200X to SQL server 2008 R2. This article assumes that the...

  You must have SharePoint Enterprise to use SharePoint PerformancePoint dashboards.  Go here to learn about upgrading to SharePoint Enterprise if you haven’t already. Enable the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure and PerformancePoint...

This blog post was written up by Martha Amirzadeh, one of the senior developers on the System Center engineering team.  Thanks Martha! ========================================= Before we start on how to write a custom Webpart let’s find out why would...

Hi folks, my name is Yuvaraj Tamil Mani and I’d like to take a minute and share some information about the flow of package distribution to a standard Distribution Point (DP) and a Branch Distribution Point (BDP). When a package is sent to a standard DP...

This blog post assumes that you have already configured your Service Level Objectives. If you need a tutorial on that then please review SCSM 2012: Service Level Management Now assuming you have setup your Service Level Objectives, it is very easy...

Service Catalog is a great addition in Service Manager for the System Center 2012 release. While I do want that to be THE catalog for all the services in the enterprise, but in realityevery Enterprise has legacy systems which will be hard to move over...

This is a pretty common question – How do I change the ‘Need Help?’ text to something else?  Similarly people want to change the description text.  This is the part of the portal that I am talking about: Personally , I really don’t like the...

I recently came across an older, fairly common issue recently but I never see one of the potential workarounds mentioned so I thought I write it up here in case you run into it. With this issue, the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr...