May, 2012

Here’s something I thought you might find interesting. This is from http://community.brocade.com/community/brocadeblogs/data_center/blog/2012/04/25/simplicity-is-key-to-private-cloud-from-microsoft, written by Sue Hartford, Microsoft Global Alliance Manager...

Read Jason Githens’s blog post about System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection and being ready to address false-positive situations as they occur in your environment. Check out Jason's post on the Server and Cloud Platform Blog . ...read more

In the last post , I showed you how to use PowerShell to connect to the Orchestrator COM interface for getting (and setting) various types of information. Now I’m going to run through a quick demo of how to get things like global resources (variables...

Just a quick note on an issue you might see that can be a little bit confusing if you’re not aware of what’s going on. After migrating Software Update packages from System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager,...

Before I start, here are links to the previous parts of this series: Getting Deeper Information from Orchestrator via COM Getting Deeper Information from orchestrator via COM, part 2 In the last two posts, I showed how to connect to the COM interface...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one talks about an issue you can run into when setting up a cluster using the Japanese version of Virtual Machine Manager. ===== Symptoms When using the Japanese version of System Center...

We are very happy to announce that seven of the Product Solution Centers on http://support.microsoft.com are featuring new Top Solutions sections that pull dynamically from the Top Solutions RSS feeds . The Top Solutions are usually listed on the page...

There are times when you want to validate that the value of a property isn’t blank. For example, you could be checking the output value (published data) of an activity to make sure it’s not blank before proceeding. However, in the list of available comparisons...

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve just published a new set of our popular quizzes for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. These 14 quizzes are a fun way to learn about some of the capabilities of the product and also to help you to...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one discusses regular expression support in System Center Operations Manager. ===== Summary The authoring of management packs may need to include regular expression matching in discoveries...

Using the Orchestrator Integration Toolkit’s Command-Line Activity Wizard, you can create your own custom activities really easily just by using a simple command line or one-line PowerShell script. When creating activities, you can specify parameters...

We’d like to take a minute to share with you the additions to reporting capabilities and the new reports that are available as part of VMM in System Center 2012 and how to access these reports in your installations. First, you need to establish the connection...

During our investigation into the disclosure of confidential data shared with our Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) partners, we determined that a member of the MAPP program, Hangzhou DPTech Technologies Co., Ltd., had breached our non-disclosure...

Hello, Today we’re releasing our advance notification for the May security bulletin release, which is scheduled for Tuesday, May 8. This month’s release includes 7 bulletins addressing 23 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, Silverlight...

Read this great post on the Windows Server Blog by Anders Vinberg, a Technical Fellow in our Management Division. In the post he describes how the Virtual Machine Manager component in System Center 2012 SP1, now available as a community technology preview...

Hi everyone, Dennis Donahoe here with a couple tips on how to fix an issue you may see setting up a new install of Configuration Manager. In a new installation of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr), you may find that you cannot connect...

I spent several hours today trying to set up load balancing for my test lab today.   It was a total pain because we have no documentation on how to do this and the information out there on the web is all over the place on this topic.  It...

Does your portal look like this? Here’s why: The Self-service portal is a SharePoint web site.  That much is fairly obvious since you had to install SharePoint as a prerequisite.  The menu options on the left take you to different pages on the...

After slogging through configuring the SCSM web interfaces for load balancing I thought I would try to get it going with Orchestrator.  It was fortunately much easier this time since I knew what to look for and experiment with.  You should probably...

One of the common parameter types in PowerShell is the switch parameter. It’s basically a Boolean (true/false) type of parameter, and you either add it to the command line or not. Here’s an example: get-scoevents get-scoevents –formatXML The above command...

One of our favorite community members, Ryan Andorfer, has updated his community IP for Configuration Manager 2007 to work with Orchestrator, and I thought I’d highlight this IP for everyone. You may know Ryan from his previous IP’s (available on CodePlex...

Hi everyone, Peter Gallagher here and I wanted to talk about one of the new features in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr). The feature is the ability to automatically deploy software updates to clients and it can be utilized to automatically...

You might see content mismatch warnings in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager when content validation runs and determines that there is a discrepancy between the expected list of packages in WMI on the distribution point and the packages in the...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one discusses an issue where the status icon in a title column of State View shows health from the First Item in System Center 2012 Operations Manager ===== Symptoms In System Center Operations...

The App-V 5.0 Beta Server is made up 3 components – Management Server, Publishing Server and the Management Database. The components are dependent but have varying requirements and actions to have them successfully deployed. The goal of this series...