March, 2012

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager introduces many exciting new features for deploying software that benefit both administrators and end users. With Configuration Manager, users get a consolidated view of the software status by using Software Center...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where attempting to install System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr 2007) hotfix 2509007 along with either 977203 or 977384 via the PATCH= option in the...

Check out Charlie Satterfield's blog post to learn more about Using System Center 2012 to monitor the infrastructure & application layers for private, public and traditional environments. Read Charlie's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one explains why in System Center Configuration Manager, when you set the Site Code of a Software Metering rule to a secondary site, that rule will not be applicable to any clients: ===== Summary...

One of the advantages of having the Endpoint Protection and Configuration Manager data integrated into a single database in Configuration Manager 2012 is that it simplifies building custom reports. Though we offer over 400 total System Center 2012 Configuration...

Check out Dave Randall's blog post to learn more about Business Hours vs. Maintenance Windows with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. Read Dave's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog. http://bit.ly/Hgnl5i ...read more

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about troubleshooting an issue where attempting to upgrade a package in Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) fails with error 04-0000180C: ===== Symptoms Attempting to upgrade...

Check out Eric Orman's blog post to learn more about Migration to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. Read Eric's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog. http://bit.ly/GURh8p ...read more

Hi folks, my name is Sanman Parvalkar and I’d like to share information with you regarding Group Memberships and the Delta Discovery process in System Center Configuration Manager 2007. When adding machines to a Security group you usually want them to...

Hi, I am Hilton Lange, SDE on the Virtual Machine Manager team.  Today I want to share with you this blog on how cluster reserve calculations were entirely rewritten in VMM 2012.  This rewrite has dramatically reduced the overly conservative...

The Microsoft Management Summit 2012 is only three weeks away!!  We can’t wait to see you all there. We will be running a series of focus groups at MMS to gather feedback from you on current and future versions of System Center. Participating in...

Nearly nine months after we announced the first annual BlueHat Prize competition for innovations in defensive security technologies, we’re just days away from the submission deadline. On the EcoStrat blog today, Senior Security Strategist Katie...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one walks you through how to create a crash dump in Microsoft Application Virtualization should you ever need to do so as guided by a Microsoft support engineer: ===== Symptoms This article...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one tells you how to fix and issue were you get error 3055 trying to create a protection group for a SQL database in DPM 2007 or DPM 2010: ===== Symptoms While trying to create a protection...

One of our newest partners Cireson has come up with a couple of great solutions for SCSM.  Group Assign – this solution solves one of the most common challenges customers face in SCSM.  The problem is that when you are reassigning/escalating...

We worked with Kelverion to make sure that our System Center customers who have BMC products will be able to get BMC integration packs that work with System Center 2012- Orchestrator without cost. I’m happy to announce that the BMC IPs RTM are now released...

Expit, one of our System Center partners, has recently released a new version of their Service Manager – Project connector. This new version now also supports SCSM 2012 including support for release management and service request fulfillment which...

Application Approval Workflow Solution Accelerator Beta Now Available Enhance your Application Approval Process The Microsoft Solution Accelerators team is pleased to announce their latest release – Application Approval Workflow. It is now available for...

  System Center 2012 - Service Manager The Infrastructure Planning and Design team is working on a new guide: System Center 2012 - Service Manager . Go here to get it. This guide can help your organization more quickly benefit from this platform...

Advertising this on behalf of Scott Moss, one of the System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management MVPs   System Center Virtual User Group Meeting #18 this Friday March 30th 1 pm to 4pm Eastern I am pleased to announce registration is ready for the...

Hi folks, my name is Sanman Parvalkar and I’d like to share some information regarding the creation of queries, collections and reports for Window Server 2008 Core in System Center Configuration Manager 2007. System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2...

Starting a Runbook In Orchestrator a runbook is started by inserting a record in the jobs table in the database. The record contains at minimum the Runbook ID and any input parameters required by the runbook. Optionally, the record may indicate the Runbook...

You’re up and running with the new software deployment features in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager – deploying applications, software updates, package and programs, configuration baselines. But there will inevitably be a few deployments...

Hi everyone, Tyler Franke here again with one more issue I ran into recently.  Consider a scenario where you have your System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr) site database on a remote/dedicated SQL Server wherein a drive fails or has...

Hi everyone, Tyler Franke here once again with another troubleshooting tip for you.  Consider the following scenario: In an otherwise healthy and functional site you find one or more of the following. 1) SMS Site Control Manager Site status message...