September, 2012

For the last few weeks we’ve been getting intermittent reports from people who could not get past the database configuration step during installation of Service Provider Foundation.  I myself hit this repeatedly during prep work for the recent TAP...

Overview Historically, a pull-based client communication mechanism is employed in the System Center Configuration Manager line of products. As a result, in large scale enterprise environments, when an administrator initiates a task, it would take minutes...

The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and the Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library have been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: September 1, 2012 at the top of the topic. These updates...

The Integration Pack for Exchange Users is an add-on for System Center 2012 SP1 beta- Orchestrator that enables you to facilitate the automation of user centric tasks, such as sending e-mail messages, creating appointments and updating tasks. 1. Create...

In Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V added the capability to store virtual machine (VM) resources on network shares hosted on NAS devices as an alternative to SAN remote storage. The Hyper-V storage stack in Windows Server 2012 now supports increased resiliency...

As some of you already know, we shipped the Microsoft Office 2013 Preview App-V package with our App-V 5.0 Beta 2 release in July 2012. We believe that this is a HUGE win for our customers. Over the years, we have received tremendous feedback from our...

The Integration Pack for HP Service Manager is an add-on for System Center 2012 SP1 Beta- Orchestrator that enables you to retrieve, create, update and monitor tickets in HP Service Manager. Feature Summary: This integration pack adds the HP Service Manager...

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The Integration Pack for HP Lights-Out (iLO) and Onboard Administrator (OA) is an add-on for System Center 2012 SP1 beta- Orchestrator that enables you to automate HP iLO and OA commands. This integration pack adds the HP iLO and OA category to the Activities...

I just wanted to post a quick note to clarify support for OpsMgr on Windows Server 2012. For Operations Manager, the only version that will support Windows Server 2012 is OpsMgr 2012 SP1. However, it is possible to have an OpsMgr 2012 agent report to...

Hello. Today we’re publishing the September 2012 Security Bulletin Out-of-Band Webcast Questions & Answers page . During the webcast, we fielded 19 questions. Those were focused on MS12-063 , the out-of-band cumulative release for Internet...

The Integration Pack for HP Operations Manager is an add-on for System Center 2012 SP1 Beta- Orchestrator that enables you to automate the consolidation and correlation of fault and performance events across you entire physical and virtual IT infrastructure...

Hi there DPM administrators, Wilson Souza here from DPM Support team. As you know, Data Protection Manager offers many ways to protect server workloads  such as Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, Hyper-V, System State, Bare metal, Files, Shares etc. Protection...

To answer a question I've been getting a lot lately: yes, Service Provider Foundation (SPF) is still a part of System Center 2012 SP1. The reason the question is coming up so much is that SPF moved in terms of packaging. Up to and including the CTP2 release...

Today we released Security Update MS12-063 to address limited attacks against a small number of computers through a vulnerability in Internet Explorer versions 9 and earlier. The majority of customers have automatic updates enabled and will not need to...

Today we released Security Advisory 2755801 that addresses vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8. The majority of customers have automatic updates enabled and will not need to take any action because protections will...

Earlier this week, an issue impacting Internet Explorer affected a small number of customers. The potential exists, however, that more customers could be affected. As a result, today we have released a Fix it that is available to address that issue. This...

The Application Catalog in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager allows users to browse, request, and install software that you make available to them. You might be wondering if you can tailor the Application Catalog capabilities to better suit your...

This is something we mentioned a few months ago but it’s such a great series I wanted to mention it again in case some of you missed it. Microsoft’s own Travis Wright spent quite a bit of time with customers over the last 6-12 months helping them plan...

The Integration Pack for VMware vSphere is an add-on for System Center 2012 SP1 Beta- Orchestrator that enables you to connect System Center Orchestrator to your VMware vSphere server to automate actions in VMware vSphere to enable full management of...

We will release a Fix it in the next few days to address an issue in Internet Explorer, as outlined in the Security Advisory 2757760 that we released yesterday. While we have only seen a few attempts to exploit the issue, impacting an extremely...

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...

System Center 2012 SP1 Beta - Orchestrator Integration Packs extend the core System Center 2012 SP1 beta - Orchestrator component to enable the authoring of datacenter automation using System Center 2012 Components. This download includes Integration...

Dear Users, With the Beta release of Global Service Monitor (GSM) we added one of the most requested features: ability to execute multistep web tests with authentication. This is a big step forward compared with single URL tests we had in CTP, because...

The Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) Solution Accelerator is a Microsoft-supported, stand-alone solution for the IT pro or solution provider who wants to convert VMware-based virtual machines and disks to Hyper-V®-based virtual machines and...