January, 2013

Hi everyone, my name is Kerim Hanif. I am a Program Manager in the Configuration Manager team responsible for content distribution. In Configuration Manager SP1 we introduced two new distribution points, the Cloud-based Distribution Point and the Pull...

We just published a new KB article that explains an issue where the NetCool/Omnibus integration pack for System Center 2012 Orchestrator returns an "Invalid ObjectServer data type" error. This is fixed in SP1 but there’s an alternate workaround...

The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager has been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: January 1, 2013 at the top of the topic. This month’s publication sees the official release of the documentation...

Hi everyone, Mark Stanfill here with a quick heads-up on a VMM setup issue I ran into the other day. I was talking with a customer who was trying to install System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 but the setup process was crashing with a call stack...

We just published a new KB article for System Center 2012 Orchestrator describing an issue where a triggered Runbook never finishes and the policy module log shows the process as terminated. This can occur if disallow results from triggers is enabled...

The installation files for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 (SP1) and the associated Endpoint Protection for Linux OS and Macintosh OS were refreshed on January 25, 2013. The SP1 media was updated across all distribution channels...

We just published a new KB article about an issue where under certain circumstances, users accounts may be able to see content that they should not have access to based on permissions defined within the Runbook Designer when that content is provided via...

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 adds support for deployment of Windows 8. The Operating System Deployment (OSD) feature builds on existing functionality to make deployment even easier than before, while also taking advantage of...

Hi everyone, Arvind Kr. Rana here with another Configuration Manager support tip for you. I’ve run across this a couple times and thought it would be worth mentioning here in case you happen to run into the same issue. What happens is that we try to install...

Here’s an issue we’ve run across a time or two here in support so I thought it would be worth documenting just in case you happen to see it. What happens is that the System Center 2012 Operations Manager Config Service DeltaSynchronization process fails...

We just published a new KB article about an issue where attempting to deploy the Integration Pack for .NET that comes with the Orchestrator Integration Toolkit to a Runbook Server that is remote from the Management Server fails and logs an Event ID: 10005...

We just published a new KB article about an issue where you receive error 26147 when you try to unregister a LUN that contained a VM and checkpoints that have been deleted. You can find the article here: KB2804293 - Error 26147 while unregistering a LUN...

This article is designed to cover troubleshooting Configuration Manager unhandled exception  logs (i.e. crash log files) and discusses tips for troubleshooting crashes that occur in the different Configuration Manager components. What is an unhandled...

The System Center Universe 2013 conference is coming up this week – Thursday, Jan. 31st!  Set aside a day to spend listening to some of the top System Center Speakers and get to know some more people in the System Center community!  The event...

We just published a new KB article that explains an issue where after installing Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager you notice that the DPM database grows and eventually the DPM console will crash. This is fixed in SP1 but...

We just published a new KB article that explains an issue with the SQL Server 2012 Management Pack for OpsMgr 2007 R2 where you may not see the default columns in the monitoring views. This is simply a view settings anomaly that’s easily fixed but you...

Just a quick heads up on a new Configuration Manager hotfix we released that may affect some of you. There’s an issue in ConfigMgr 2007 SP2 where Hardware Inventory does not inventory Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) applications in Microsoft...

We just published a new hotfix that addresses an issue where hardware Inventory doesn’t inventory Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) applications in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2). You can find all the...

This isn’t really App-V specific but since this is our short-term temporary home for UE-V content I wanted to post a quick heads up. We just published a new KB article about an issue where Microsoft User Experience Virtualization (UE-V) environments that...

One of the challenges with creating a completely deployable service in the past has been the lack of ability to sysprep SQL Server.  That was addressed with SQL Server 2012 so that you could sysprep a SQL Server cleanly and include a sysprep’d VM...

I just ran across a great article written by one of our PFEs (Premier Field Engineer) talking about Antivirus Exclusion issues around OSD and Boot Image related activities with ConfigMgr 2012 SP1: With the release of Service Pack 1 for System Center 2012...

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 lets you manage Windows Phone 8, Windows RT, iOS, and Android devices by using the Windows Intune service over the internet. Although you use the Windows Intune service, management tasks are completed by using...

Internally, we have lots of teams at Microsoft that are using Service Manager for large and small scale service desk needs.  One of our internal customers is the operations team that runs some of Microsoft’s web properties like TechNet/MSDN, Windows...

With System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012) SP1, we now allow multiple migrations to occur and we can specify the maximum number of concurrent migration jobs in the properties of the host. What this means is that if we set the migration...

We have discovered that when the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 client is published to WSUS via the ConfigMgr console, Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 clients may be unable to install the client from WSUS via Windows Update. This can occur...