November, 2012

We just published a few new KB articles in anticipation of the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) v5 release so if you’re among the many who are planning to make the move then you’ll probably want to take a quick look at these. It’s mostly some...

Here are a few KB articles we released in anticipation of the Microsoft User Experience Virtualization (UE-V) release with MDOP 2012 . We don’t really have a UE-V specific blog but I wanted to make sure these were mentioned somewhere and thought this...

Hi all, Doug Neal and Erin Williams here. You may have seen the WSUS blog posted 31 October 2012 titled Support Tip: Many new revisions of updates may be downloaded by the WSUS server . We wanted to highlight that issue for you and also provide you with...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where you get an "Access Denied" in Runbook Designer when connecting to the Orchestrator Management Server. ===== Symptoms When attempting to connect to your System...

Here’s a hotfix for ConfigMgr 2007 that we recently published. This is a hotfix to correct an issue where the TSManager.exe and TSInstallSWUpdates.exe processes freeze under certain scenarios, causing Software Updates to fail. ===== Consider the following...

Today, in conjunction with Adobe’s update process, we have revised Security Advisory 2755801 to address issues in Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer 10. Customers who have automatic updates enabled will not need to take any action because protections...

Here’s a hotfix for ConfigMgr 2007 that we recently published. This is an update that adds support for Windows 8-based client computers in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2. ===== An update is available that adds support for Windows 8-based...

This article describes the issues in Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 that are fixed in hotfix rollup package 7 for System Center DPM 2010. This hotfix rollup resolves the following issues: When a Microsoft SharePoint site collection...

Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 Service Pack 2 (App-V 4.6 SP2) is now available. This service pack provides the latest updates to Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6. Additionally, this service pack includes some improvements and a hotfix...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where SharePoint item-level recovery fails when the site collection name contains a space. ===== Symptoms Assume that you perform an item-level recovery on a Microsoft SharePoint...

In case you missed the announcement on the MDOP blog a couple days ago, MDOP 2012 is now available. MDOP 2012 includes Application Virtualization (App-V) v5, User Experience Virtualization (UE-V), Dart 8 and a slew of other great bits. If you already...

Greetings! Last week, Karri announced the general availability of MDOP 2012 , which included the release of two much awaited products: the new Microsoft User Experience Virtualization (UE-V), and one of the biggest releases in Microsoft Application Virtualization...

written by – Yash Harsha Kumar, SDET, Microsoft Introduction Connection Groups group one or more APP-V packages to enable member applications in these packages to interact with one another while maintaining isolation from the rest of the system...

Today, we’re providing advance notification for six bulletins to help protect customers against 19 CVEs. The four Critical-rated updates will address 13 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer and the .NET Framework. One bulletin...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue with System Center 2012 Orchestrator that happens when the SQL Server instance it’s using is restarted. ===== Symptoms Runbooks stop executing and the Orchestrator Runbook...

Here’s a hotfix for FEP 2010 that we recently published. This one’s an update that adds Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 support to Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 clients ===== This article describes an update that enables the Microsoft Forefront...

The Infrastructure Planning and Design team is pleased to announce that the IPD guide for System Center 2012 - Operations Manager is now available for download. This guide outlines the infrastructure design elements that are crucial to a successful implementation...

Security Updates Today we released six security bulletins to help protect our customers - four Critical, one Important, and one Moderate – addressing 19 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows Shell, Windows Kernel, Internet Explorer, Internet Information...

Some of you may have noticed us improving our defense-in-depth practices for bulletins by supplying sha1 and sha2 hashes in the Knowledge Base (KB) articles . This has been most visible in the KB with the addition of the “File hash information”...

This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if a user visits an affected website by way of a specially crafted URL. An attacker...

written by – Yash Harsha Kumar (SDET) Introduction Connection Groups group one or more APP-V packages to enable member applications in these packages to interact with one another while maintaining isolation from the rest of the system. This...

A few weeks ago I provided the source code to the SendEmail solution to one of our MVPs, Patrik Sundqvist, so that he could extend the solution to also work for Service Requests.  You can read about his solution on his blog: http://blogs.litware...

Hello, Today we’re publishing the November 2012 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . During the webcast, we fielded ten questions focusing primarily Windows RT, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012 detection and deployment,...

This Knowledge Base article talks about an issue where the AVIcode or APM Advisor Report does not display correctly: Symptoms Consider the following scenarios: Scenario 1: You Install System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 with Avicode 5.7. You enable...

Here’s another UE-V article that I thought I’d share here for now, at least until there’s a better home for UE-V content somewhere else.  This Knowledge Base article talks about how to enable debug logging: Summary This article describes how to enable...