November, 2012

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...

This Knowledge Base article talks about an issue where attempting to protect a SQL Server AlwaysOn AG using DPM 2012 fails with error 0x80990F75: Symptoms When attempting to protect a SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group (AG) using System Center 2012...

This Knowledge Base article talks about an issue where you are unable to access the Operations Manager 2007 Web Console and Event 33857 is recorded in the Operations Manager event log: Symptoms Consider the following scenario: - You are unable to access...

An attempt to use the new Optimized Item Level Recovery (ILR) feature of System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM) for SharePoint recovery with a clustered SQL server as the instance specified as the location to "temporarily stage content...

This Knowledge Base article talks about an issue where doing a host refresh in VMM generates MSiSCSI Event ID 113 every 30 minutes: Symptoms On a Hyper-V host that is managed by System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (VMM 2008), an event ID 113 or...

In System Center 2012 Update Rollup 3, we had indicated that the console memory issues that had been reported were fixed.  Unfortunately, there was a mix up in some of the binaries that were packaged in the update rollup where the original binaries...

If you are a Configuration Manager 2007 customer, we recognize you might have concerns about the impact of recent changes to Microsoft Update. These changes were introduced by either the application of the WSUS update KB 2734608 , or by back-end Microsoft...

If you are a Configuration Manager 2007 customer, we recognize you might have concerns about the impact of recent changes to Microsoft Update. These changes were introduced by either the application of the WSUS update KB 2734608 , or by back-end Microsoft...

This Knowledge Base article talks about an issue where you get a "Bad certificate" error when you use an AI synchronization point on a ConfigMgr 2007 site server after the bootstrap certificate expires: ===== Consider the following scenarios...

For the last few years, the System Center Blog here at http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter has been run by the System Center marketing team. They moved to a combined System Center + Windows Server + Cloud blog at http://blogs.technet.com/b/server...

If you liked the original System Center Blogs app that was published last year for Windows Phone and Android , you’ll be happy to know that both apps have now been updated, plus there is a new version now available for iOS . The updates include bug fixes...

Software Installation in Windows Intune - a Potted History The first release of Windows Intune - announced at MMS 2011 - was primarily an IT Pro-centric release. We focused on delivering an essential range of features allowing administrators to manage...

Cumulative Update 2 for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager is now available. For all the details and a download link please see the following: 2780664 - Description of Cumulative Update 2 for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager ( http://support...

There are some new technical documentation downloads available for VMM 2012. The available downloads include: System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager Technical Documentation System Center 2012 SP1 – Virtual Machine Manager Cmdlet Reference System...

This blog post is for Configuration Manager SP1 administrators who are looking to manage Windows Embedded devices that use write filters. It includes the following information: An overview of write filters and implications for a device management...

The Remote Desktop Services Management Pack helps you manage your computers that are running Remote Desktop Services on Windows Server 2012 by monitoring the health of the following Remote Desktop Services role services: · Remote Desktop Session Host...

written by – Naveed Ahmad, Senior SDE 1 Introduction Connection Group is comprised of two or more individual packages. Which means those packages are Sequenced individually, they are edited individually, and they are upgraded individually...

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

This seems to come up quite often and my usual explanation doesn't seem to be sufficient for everybody so I’ll explain in detail here what the process is for getting MP resources from an MPB. First of all it is important to know that an MPB is just an...

One of our partners, Signature Consultancy has updated one of their products SMTI to version 2.0 and released a new product designed for support team managers to get an overview of their teams progress against goals.  This new dashboard is FREE and...