June, 2012

Service Provider Foundation is a new set of APIs for System Center that will be released in System Center 2012 SP1.   These APIs are designed to enable hosters (or a central enterprise IT organization acting as a hoster for the rest of the organization...

Dear Users, With the CTP2 release of System Center 2012, we announced the immediate availability of the Customer Preview of a new System Center component called “Global Service Monitor”. Global Service Monitor is an Azure-based service...

The following is a self-study guide put together by a Technical Account Manager here at Microsoft named Scott Rachui. He was gracious enough to let me post the contents here so if you’re looking for a crash course on System Center Advisor and App Controller...

Microsoft has released a major update to Windows Intune that will add a host of much-awaited features, including the ability to import your Active Directory User and Security Groups; mobile device management; the introduction of information worker portals...

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...

You can find the MP here . From the Management Pack Guide Document Version This guide was written based on the 6.0.6972.0 version of the Monitoring Pack for Windows Server Operating System. Changes in This Update Unless explicitly...

I have been talking to a number of people, both online as well as in person (at MMS, TechED and in other occasions) and one of the recurring questions I get, as people plan for their deployment of System Center 2012 – Operations Manager and want to use...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where installing a System Center 2012 Operations Manager fails if there is not enough free disk space for the Data file folder or the Log file folder. ===== Symptoms Installing...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where installing VMM 2012 fails with “ Unable to create or access the Active Directory container CN=VMMDKM,DC=Domain,DC=local. Access is denied. Specify the distinguished...

GridPro has just released their latest version of WebFront, a web console for SCSM. This new, updated version includes support for SCSM 2012. It has new forms for service requests and release management which are new to SCSM 2012. It also has support...

Hello, Today we published the June Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page , and the June 2012 Security Bulletin Release Webcast slide deck . We fielded 23 questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released...

As just announced , the System Center 2012 SP1 CTP2 is now available for download! We’d like to provide some additional information about what’s shipping in CTP2 for the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) and App Controller components. For VMM, we have the...

In Customer Technology Preview 1 (CTP1) we introduced a small group of customers and partners to a new and important feature segment being released with Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1: Service Provider Foundation (SPF). The CTP1 release provided enough...

As Vijay announced we are excited about the CTP2 release of the System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 that is now ready to download! System Center 2012 SP1 integrates with and leverages the exciting new features in the Windows Server 2012 RC while continuing...

As Vijay announced , the System Center 2012 SP1 CTP2 is now available for download! We’d like to provide some additional information about what’s shipping in CTP2 for the DPM component: Efficient data protection of VMs deployed on Hyper-V over CSV: Windows...

This was another adrenaline filled week. A great TechEd 2012 in Orlando (see the keynote here) followed by System Center 2012 winning the best product award (thanks to all of you, we are humbled) and lastly being able to share the exciting new features...

As I write this post flying back from TechEd, North America ( check out Day 1 keynote ), it never ceases to amaze me how technology has really changed our lives!!! Speaking of which, what an honor that all of you voted System Center 2012 as best Microsoft...

I just saw this come through my email and I had to share it, and I admit I’m a little jealous and a little relieved at the same time. You see I have had the idea of writing an extension to Configuration Manager to launch Orchestrator runbooks via the...

We’ve had a few questions regarding critical updates and WSUSSCN2.CAB so I thought I’d publish a quick explainer in case you were wondering the same. Question: Is security advisory KB2719615 going to be added for Microsoft Update Catalog in the near future...

One of our friends over on the Office365 team who does a lot of stuff with Orchestrator and PowerShell (and I mean deep stuff), Tim Bertalot, pointed out a cool Visual Studio add-on that lets you visualize the schema of a web service. The tool is called...

During our regular Update Tuesday bulletin cycle this week, we released Security Advisory 2719615 , which provides guidance concerning a remote code execution issue affecting MSXML Code Services. As part of that Advisory, we've built a Fix it workaround...

Antoni Hanus, a Premier Field Engineer in California, recently wrote a blog article about integrating Orchestrator and Service Manager in a real world customer scenario. Here’s how he puts the scenario: “I was working with a customer this week who had...

We recently assisted a customer that was having problems accessing the WEDM nodes in a remote ConfigMgr 2007 admin console if the user was not an admin on the remote site server. We checked WMI and DCOM permissions and everything appears to be configured...

In OpsMgr 2012, we provided users the ability to create customized dashboards using the OpsMgr 2012 console. The GTM.exe tool provided in this blog allows you to build off these dashboard investments, in particular we allow you to accomplish three specific...

For Update Tuesday we’re releasing seven security bulletins – three Critical-class and four Important – addressing 26 unique CVEs to further improve the security postures of Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Dynamics AX, Microsoft...