August, 2012

Hi all, this is Vladimir from the VMM team and today I want to very quickly show how easy it is create and configure a private cloud in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012) and enable users to access already existing virtual machines...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where the Orchestrator Run Program activity returns a "Process creation failed" "The system cannot find the file specified" error. ===== Symptoms Executing...

Are you looking for a good way to get started learning everything that’s new in ConfigMgr 2012? If so then here’s the guide for you: ===== With part-3 of this series, I finally turn to one of the most important products of the System Center suite. This...

Here’s a problem we came across recently and the resolution we came up with that I wanted to share. The issue is that when creating a task sequence for  bootable media using a Boot Image, the wizard does not return any of the available Management...

Are you looking for a good way to get started learning everything that’s new in Orchestrator 2012 and SCSM? If so then here’s the guide for you: ===== In this post, we're turning to two more components of System Center 2012, Orchestrator and Service Manager...

Are you looking for a good way to get started learning everything that’s new in VMM 2012? If so then here’s the guide for you: ===== In this post, I'll cover Unified Installer and Virtual Machine Manager. As usual, I will focus on the self-study material...

This is a guest post from Premier Field Engineer Neil.  Thanks for sharing Neil!   Configuration Manager Status Messages are not a new concept, nor is the ability to trigger specific actions based on the generation of a pre-identified status...

As most of you know, Microsoft released an updated version of Windows Intune in June 2012. In today’s blog post we’ll walk through the process to activate your new features in Windows Intune, how the process will work and everything you need...

In Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007, the issuing certificate that System Center Online uses to validate the bootstrap certificate expires in September 2012. After this date, System Center Online does not recognize the bootstrap certificate...

Hello, Shane Brasher here, and I wanted to take a minute today to talk to you about a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V / System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM) SP1 supportability issue. First let’s briefly discuss an exciting new feature of Windows...

There seems to be some confusion surrounding the licensing model used by Microsoft Visio and how it affects App-V deployments of Visio packages so I wanted to take a minute and see if I could clear this up a little bit. The licensing model used by Visio...

This post was written by two of Windows Intune Mobile feature PM's - Sharon Nakibly and Yuval Goldstein. In their words: We're Sharon and Yuval - two program managers from the Windows Intune team. We'd like to tell you about the mobile application distribution...

We are announcing support changes for the following releases. These changes will be reflected in the Configuration Manager 2007 Supported Configurations and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Supported Configurations within the next month. Configuration...

So... I was talking to my friend/colleague Eric in MSIT (Microsoft IT), who is one of our internal System Center power users, as you can imagine. MSIT manages thousands of line of business applications. As APM gets rolled out to web farms, or new servers...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about troubleshooting an issue where adding a SAN storage provider in VMM 2012 fails with SMI-S Error 26100. ===== Symptoms When attempting to discover a SAN storage provider in System Center...

Cumulative Update 1 for ConfigMgr 2012 is now available. Below are the issues that are fixed: Administrator Console When a new distribution point is added to a package that contains more than 100 existing distribution points, the new distribution point...

The Infrastructure Planning and Design team is working on a new guide: System Center 2012 – Operations Manager. Join the beta now. Join the System Center 2012 – Operations Manager Beta. This guide outlines the infrastructure design elements that are crucial...

Hello. Today we’re publishing the August 2012 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . During the webcast, we fielded twelve questions focusing primarily on MS12-060 covering Windows Common Controls, MS12-052 regarding Internet...

Today, we published Security Advisory 2743314 , which provides guidance that will help protect customers from a technique that could allow a man-in-the middle attack to obtain a user’s domain credentials when VPN is configured to use PPTP and MSCHAPv2...

You may find that you are unable to import Microsoft Volume Licensing Software (MVLS) information into a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr 2007) Asset Intelligence catalog. During the import of software license information you get the...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue you might run into where trying to migrate a driver package to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager fails with "SCCM Provider is missing read, write, or delete privilege"...

Security Advisory 2661254 - Update For Minimum Certificate Key Length Before we get into the details of this month’s bulletin release, let’s take a look at an important change on how Windows deals with certificates that have RSA keys of less...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one covers how to troubleshoot issues when adding a Hyper-V host in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager. ===== Summary This article covers how to troubleshoot issues when adding a Hyper-V host...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published that talks about how to troubleshoot the “Needs Attention” and “Not Responding” host status in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager. This is one you’ll probably want to add to your Favorites. ===...

Consider the following scenario: You set System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) Client Agent\Computer Agent\Show notifications for new deployments to "False". You create a Software Updates Deployment in ConfigMgr. The Software...