We just published a short KB that mentions the fixes and updates recommended for Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager Management Server computers. You can find the details here: KB2843587 - System Center 2012 Service Manager: Recommended OS Fixes...

Just a reminder that we rescheduled the Windows Server/System Center MVP Speaker Series session on Using Visual Studio Authoring Extensions to tomorrow at 8:00 Pacific time.  Please join us for this 300 level session where MVP David Allen will wow...

In Part I, we looked at how Logical Networks fit into a Virtualized Network solution. In Part II, which is split over a number of different posts, we focus our attention on Logical Network design and architecture. As with all of the previous posts , it...

Michael Vargo | Senior Support Escalation Engineer Some customers are experiencing failures on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V hosts that utilize Cluster Shared Volumes (CSVs) when backing up virtual machines (VM’s) using System Center 2012 Data Protection...

Are you having trouble figuring out where to start when troubleshooting App-V sequencing and virtualization issues? Or maybe you’re looking for some tips from the pros on how they approach these types of issues? No matter where you’re coming from, Microsoft...

A new management pack for Windows Server Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) has been released.  Overview This management pack provides an early warning to administrators on issues that could affect services so that administrators can investigate...

Windows 2012 introduced deduplication feature that provides great savings for the file systems with lot of redundant data.  File systems in general, most of the data is cold meaning most of the files are not changed.  Windows 2012 deduplicates...

At long last!  We have released a version of the Exchange Connector which has been thoroughly tested, passed on strict security audit process, and most importantly is officially supported!  It’s been a long time coming, but finally the day is...

If you are looking for the MSI installer files for APP-V 5 SP1, you will need to manually extract them from the EXE files. Check out this post from Microsoft’s own Steve Thomas for details on how this is done: MDOP 2013 embeds APP-V MSI's inside of EXE...

Are you looking for information on how to integrate System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 (SP1) with App-V v5? If so then Microsoft’s own Thamim Karim has you covered. You can read Thamim’s post on his blog here: http://blogs.technet...

Looking to integrate your virtual application management with App-V 5.0 and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 (SP1)? If so then Microsoft’s own Thamim Karim has you covered. You can read Thamim’s post on his blog here: http://blogs...

We just published a new KB article that discusses fixes and updates recommended for Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager Agent computers. You can find the complete article and get all the details here: KB2843219 - System Center 2012 Operations...

Microsoft’s own Steve Thomas just posted a great article on launching apps inside the App-V v5 virtual environment: Back in 4.x, we pretty much had one of two ways to launch an application inside the virtual environment or “bubble” as it is often called...

One of the important features enabled in Windows 2012 is the ability to live migrate VMs anywhere.  Whether the VM migrating within a cluster, across clusters, standalone to standalone or standalone to cluster or vice versa, VM will not be paused...

Posted on behalf of Carmen Summers Greetings All, This is Carmen Summers and I lead System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management Sustained Engineering.  I wanted to take the time to announce we are making an addition to System Center 2012 SP1 Update...

Portuguese (Brazil) , Русский Today we released a new update to replace KB2823324, which was originally made available through MS13-036 . As we previously discussed , we stopped distributing this update when we learned some customers were having issues...

This is a post that I just put up on the System Center blog, but I also wanted to post it here for better visibility because one of the topics this week is about automating Hyper-V administration using PowerShell.  While you can do lots of great...

This is a post that I just put up on the System Center blog, but I also wanted to post it here for better visibility because one of the topics this week is on using Operations Manager to provide data for CIO scorecards.  This session will be presented...

We are launching a new Windows Server/System Center MVP Speaker Series this week!  This continuing education series of presentations will be delivered by some of our MVPs on various topics around Window Server and System Center.  The content...

Just a heads up, in Service Manager 2012 SP1, we made certain changes to custom actions in setup which renders fresh installs of the secondary management server incapable of connecting to the Management Group. This issue was first surfaced in a blog post...

We published a new hotfix today for ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 to correct the following issue: Consider the following scenario: You enable the Upgrade client automatically when new client updates are available option on a Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration...

We published a new hotfix today for Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 to correct the following issue: Consider the following scenario: You create a package in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2). You assign...

Buz Brodin | Senior Support Escalation Engineer Hi everyone, Buz Brodin here. I recently had an interesting AMT provisioning case with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager where we hit multiple issues so I captured some of the various symptoms and...

Balancing server patching with maintaining the availability of the services that run on these servers can be a difficult task for an IT Pro, with lots of repetitive, time-consuming, and error-prone steps. Luckily, Orchestrator has emerged as an effective...

We published a new hotfix today for Configuration Manager 2012 Service Pack 1 to correct the following issue: Consider the following scenario: You configure a Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 (SP1) primary site and a System...