April, 2012

I had this problem at MMS and someboy else here in Microsoft just asked me about it. In case this is a more common thing that might be happening out there, I'll drop this blog post out here to explain it and what the resolution is. Scenario: You...

People have been asking for a long time how they can move the Service Manager and data warehouse databases. It's actually a non-trivial process so we needed to do some testing and get an official procedure documneted. We have finally released that procedure...

Over the years, Boris has released a set of phenomenal tools, that saved lives of OpsMgr administrators quite some time in performing common OpsMgr tasks in OpsMgr 2007 and 2007 R2.. Anyhow, Boris has moved to another team within Microsoft. In order to...

In case you haven’t noticed, our colleagues and long-time Application Management experts Shawn Gibbs and Chris Childers have started blogging: Chris  http://blogs.technet.com/b/chrischilders/ Shawn http://blogs.technet.com/b/shawngibbs/ Make sure...

Just a quick FYI that beta versions of the Windows Server 2012 Management Packs (MPs) for System Center 2012 Operations Manager are now available to TAP customers. These beta versions of the Windows Server 2012 Management Packs are available for you to...

Check out the Server Cloud Blog about Taking a Guided Tour of System Center 2012 and the Microsoft private cloud. Read the blog here: http://bit.ly/J69nsg ...read more

We are pleased to announce that the WSUS Management Pack Beta is live and available to TAP users starting today via the Connect site.  These beta versions of Windows 8 Server (aka Windows Server 2012) Management Packs (MPs) are available for you...

Here’s one more Knowledge Base article we published today. This one shows you how to sequence (virtualize) the ConfigMgr admin console in App-V. ===== Symptoms When trying to Sequence (virtualize) the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr...

Here’s one more Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one shows you how to easily fix an issue where the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (OpsMgr) Connector for HP OpenView fails to auto-forwarding alerts to an HP OVO...

Here’s one more Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one shows you how to easily fix an issue where the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (OpsMgr) Connector for HP OpenView fails to auto-forwarding alerts to an HP OVO...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one talks about a couple work arounds for an App-V issue where launching an App-V application fails with "Unable to initialize package information (0x00000000)": ===== Symptoms...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one talks about an easy fix for an issue you may run into where a Windows NT service fails to start automatically if monitored by AVICode. ===== Symptoms Some Windows NT services may...

Hi there, this is Alvin Morales and today I want to talk about how to troubleshoot a service template deployment in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).  In VMM, we have a new feature for deploying virtual machines (VMs) as a service...

The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager has been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: March 1, 2012 at the top of the topic. This is the official release version of this library. There are no significant...

Here’s a Knowledge Base article/hotfix we recently published. This one describes an issue where a syntax error occurs when Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 runs store procedures after upgrading to SQL Server 2012. ===== Symptoms Assume that you upgrade...

Check out Deb McFadden's blog post "Welcome to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager". Read Deb's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog. http://bit.ly/J19Bkw ...read more

Here’s a heads up on new Knowledge Base article/Hotfix Rollup Package we published. This hotfix rollup package resolves compatibility issues of Asset Intelligence in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) with other Microsoft...

The latest version of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit—version 2012— is now available for download. Visit the Download Center to download MDT 2012. Deploy Windows 7, Office 2010, Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Windows Server “8” Beta and Windows Server 2008...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one is more of a heads-up but it explains what you may see if you try to import a Management Pack in OpsMgr but haven’t imported the other Management Packs that are listed as dependencies...

The MDOP Engineering Team is in Las Vegas this week for MMS 2012 . Angie, Aseem, Briton, Dan, Derrick, Dilip, Karan, Tim and myself are hanging out with customers and partners at the Venetian Resort.  Brad Anderson kicked things off this morning...

We are announcing support changes for the following releases. Please look for these changes to be reflected in the Supported Configuration pages within a few months. System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 and R3 support Microsoft SQL Server 2012...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one walks you through fixing a issue where a DPM SharePoint Catalog Task fails with Unknown error (0x8013151a): ===== Symptoms Symptom 1: While attempting to protect a SharePoint 2010 farm with...

Here’s another new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one goes through some common troubleshooting tips for eliminating Event IDs 2115 in Operations Manager: ===== Symptoms In Operations Manager, one of the performance concerns surrounds...

Hi folks, my name is Umair Khan.  I am on the Configuration Manager support team here at Microsoft and I wanted to take a minute to go through transaction based replication between sites in Configuration Manager 2007.  Keep in mind that what...

Read Brad Anderson's blog post to lean about "The Evolving Role of IT as Cloud Innovator". Check out Brad's post on the Server Cloud Blog: http://bit.ly/J9K8mC ...read more