December, 2012

written by - Robert Doverspike, Software Development Engineer PowerShell allows system admins to perform a vast array of tasks, all while leveraging the support of .NET’s extensive libraries. Microsoft Application Virtualization has added PowerShell...

Describes how to use Service Provider Foundation to programmatically integrate cloud resources that Virtual Machine Manag3er (VMM) manages into existing management portals and orchestration.   http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles...

From Jonathan Ponton http://seethruthecloud.com/using-system-center-2012-orchestrator-to-create-a-new-user-in-office-365-from-a-service-manager-service-request   from the System Center 2012 Orchestrator runbook he has been working on!...( read more...

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/13310.cloud-resource-management-with-system-center-2012-service-pack-1-sp1-orchestrator-and-service-provider-foundation.aspx   Technical Scenarios for System Center 2012 SP1 Beta  http...

This script will copy an existing Incident in Service Manager 2012 and create a new Service Request copying various attributes. After the copy, the Incident will be cancelled with a reference to the newly created Service Request. Andre Carter from Microsoft...

When using System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, you may find that the Out Of Band (OOB) Management console fails to connect to a client on an 802.1X network if that machine is not switched on or is not booted into a full, running operating system...

Here’s a KB we just published that talks about a condition where the status displayed in the FCS Malware Summary report may be a little bit confusing: ===== Symptoms When a Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) administrator attempts to delete...

Here’s a KB we just published that talks about the A/V exclusions you’ll want to configure in a System Center Service Manager environment: ===== Summary Antivirus exclusions need to be properly configured in a System Center Service Manager 2010 (SCSM...

Here’s a KB we just published that talks about an issue where attempting to perform a virtual machine conversion using the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) solution accelerator fails: ===== Symptoms Attempting to perform a virtual machine conversion...

Here’s a KB we just published that talks about an issue that you might run into if you try to edit reports in ConfigMgr on a machine where IE is not the default browser: ===== Symptoms When attempting to edit reports in the Administrator Console on a...

I don't know what else to call this since this has never happened before but the “Update to Update Rollup 3” is now available.  A couple of weeks ago we noticed that there was an incorrect binary version in the Update Rollup 3 package which resulted...

The Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2013 is going to be held in Las Vegas again next year.  The date is set – April 8-12, 2013.  MMS is the can’t miss Microsoft conference dedicated just to management.  You don’t want to miss out on five...

Here’s a KB we just published that talks about an issue where performing an operation on a VM in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager fails with error 801: ===== Symptoms When performing any operation on a virtual machine (VM) in System Center 2012...

Hi everyone, Tyler Franke here, and today I wanted to talk about an issue that you might run into when doing client push installs and have thin clients in your environment. When using client push installation to install the System Center Configuration...

Here’s a KB for DPM 2012 that actually came out a few months ago but somehow slipped through the cracks and never got a mention here on our blog. It resolves a lot of questions we get around here so I wanted to make sure everyone was aware of it. If you...

The next release of Windows Intune brings integration with System Center Configuration Manager (SP1). A new TechNet Radio episode featuring Wally Mead covers mobile device management from SCCM SP1, including the important role played by Windows Intune...

While it may be the most wonderful time of the year, we know it can also be the busiest time of the year. With that in mind, we’re providing advance notification that next Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, we’ll release seven security bulletins; five...

The System Center Monitoring Pack for Windows Server 2012 Essentials helps you monitor features that are specific to Windows Server 2012 Essentials. It does not monitor features in the Windows Server 2012 operating system. To monitor features in Windows...

This cumulative update fixes the issue that is documented in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article: 2735318 You receive Secure Reference Override Failure warnings after you install Monitoring Management Pack in System Center Operations Manager...

written by Josh Davis, SDET 2 One of my early surprises at Microsoft was when I was working on a test machine doing some typical investigations. In Microsoft, it is fairly common to have a test machine provisioning solution that is custom tailored...

Just a quick heads up on a KB article we just published that describes the supported versions of Configuration Manager that can be used with Microsoft App-V and the different features each one supports. This covers App-V 4.5 and 5.0 as well as ConfigMgr...

Just wanted to let you know about a new App-V article we published. This one talks about an issue where launching a virtual application executable from an unpublished package version fails with the following error: The application failed to launch. This...

Here’s a question I just got the other day. Luckily we just published a Knowledge Base article that details the specifics of which versions of App-V work with which versions of Configuration Manager and what features are available with each combination...

I’m Aaron Czechowski, a senior program manager on the Windows Intune engineering team. This is the first in a three-part series on topics surrounding Windows Intune client behavior when the Windows Intune team publishes a client update. We’ve...

A new version of the print server management pack adds support for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012.  The management pack can be used in Operations Manager 2007 R2 or in System Center 2012 – Operations Manager.    Overview...