January, 2013

Out of the box in Service Manager, we provide a number of different properties to help categorize knowledge articles such as category, language, keywords, tag, and description.  Let’s look at each of these properties in more detail. Property Description...

Just a quick FYI on a new KB article we published today. This one talks about an error you might get when running the ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 beta prereq check so if you’re not using the SP1 beta builds then this probably won’t be an issue for you. 2794128...

The Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2013 is coming up soon!  It’s going to be a super event for thousands of people from all over the world interested in System Center and Windows Server to get together to network and soak up lots of great information...

Our partner GridPro has recently released a new version of their popular WebFront product!  WebFront provides a browser- based interface for Service Manager with the ability to view/update work items and configuration items in a user experience very...

Hello, Today we released Security Advisory 2798897 to notify customers that we are aware of active attacks using a fraudulent digital certificate issued by TURKTRUST Inc. To help protect customers, we have updated the Certificate Trust List (CTL) to...

On behalf of all of us here at Microsoft, I’d like to wish everyone a very happy New Year! With 2013 starting on a Tuesday, our monthly bulletin release is upon us a bit earlier than usual. Next Tuesday we’ll release seven bulletins; two...

written by – Ozge Yavuz, SDE Introduction App-V 5.0 “isolates” virtual applications from the operating system and other processes. This is done by hiding the application resources from everything else. One can imagine this as running...

We recently released an update rollup package that adds the following features to the Windows Azure Online Backup for Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Data Protection Manager (DPM) and for a computer that is running Windows Server 2012...

At the end of each year, some folks take a moment to jot down predictions about what the coming year has in store. I, on the other hand, do not do predictions. I am neither prognosticator, seer, fortune teller, prophet, clairvoyant, soothsayer, nor medium;...

Microsoft has released security bulletin MS13-003. To view the complete security bulletin, visit one of the following Microsoft websites: Home users: http://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/bulletins/201301.aspx (http://www.microsoft.com/security...

Hi everyone, Somaning Turwale here.  I recently went through the process of sequencing the Configuration Manager 2012 admin console and thought I’d share what I learned with you here.   NOTE In my example below I am sequencing the Microsoft...

Issues that are fixed in Cumulative Update 7 Cumulative Update 7 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 fixes the following issues: Console performs poorly when User Roles are used to scope object access. Availability data is not shown for the current...

Welcome to the New Year and to a series of blog postings that will cover how to define, configure and manage Virtual Networks in VMM 2012 SP1. Over the next six months, we plan to cover the following topics using the initial blog “getting started...

Hi everyone, Shane Brasher here, and today I’m going to walk through configuring Data Protection Manager to perform backups and recoveries using the Azure cloud. Note: This article assumes that you have already registered an account for use with Azure...

This error message - File skipped because it was already present from Microsoft.PowerShell - can appear when a workflow is run that is loading the Service Manager modules that are provided out of the box.  Something similar to this used to happen...

This is the second post in a three-part series on topics surrounding Windows Intune client update behavior. The first post covered the overall client update process; this post will detail the available Updates policy settings and what affect these policy...

Today we’re publishing the January2013 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . During the webcast, we fielded 12 questions focusing primarily on the Print Spooler ( MS12-001 ) and .NET Framework ( MS13-004 ) updates. All questions...

Today, we are providing Advance Notification to customers that at approximately 10 a.m. PST on Monday, January 14, 2013, we will release an out-of-band security update to fully address the issue described in Security Advisory 2794220. While we have still...

Here’s a new KB article for Configuration Manager that we recently published. This one talks about an issue you might see when you change the decimal separator from “.” to “,” in your regional settings, After doing this, the link in Software Center to...

As explained in KB 931125 , a package that was intended only for client operating systems was also made available to servers through WSUS and Windows Update. This package is designed to update the store of trusted root certificates, and adds a large number...

We recently published a new hotfix/KB for Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 that fixes an issue where installation fails with the following error in the Ccmsetup.log file: Couldn't verify 'C:\WINDOWS\ccmsetup\MicrosoftPolicyPlatformSetup.msi' authenticode...

Today, we released MS13-008 to address the issue described in Security Advisory 2794220 . We’ve seen only a limited number of attacks through an issue in Internet Explorer 6-8, but the potential exists that more customers could be affected. The...

On Friday, we released the new Windows Server Backup Management Pack.  You can download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36390 Overview This management pack will allow you to monitor the status of Windows server...

Looking for some guidance on upgrading to ConfigMgr 2012 SP1? If so then this article we just published should be just what you’re looking for. It contains a quick description of steps to follow to upgrade Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager...

Previously, I have posted another blog post on troubleshooting workflows .  That blog post talks about troubleshooting a specific workflow that is having problems.  This blog post describes how to troubleshoot general performance problems with...