So - now that the Release Candidate of System Center 2012 is out and the general availbility is fast approaching you may be starting to get more serious about getting up to speed on System Center 2012. Am I right? Don't even worry! We are here to help...

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, a management solution for the virtualized data center, lets a system administrator manage virtualization hosts, networking, and storage resources. With Virtual Machine Manager 2012, you can optimize...

Microsoft IT has supported the consumerization of IT for years at Microsoft and continues to define the balance between hardware/productivity and software/security. Consumerization of IT has remarkable potential for improving collaboration, productivity...

At the webcast this morning Satya Nadella, President of the Server and Tools Division, and Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President of Management and Security at Microsoft announced the availability of System Center 2012 RC and introduced the new licensing...

Hi everyone, Joao Madureira here.  Here on the WSUS support team we occasionally run into an issue where all of the client machines at a customer site suddenly and unexpectedly start accessing the Microsoft Update site and downloading all available...

Hi everyone, Tyler Franke here again with another issue I ran into recently.  Consider a scenario wherein System Center Configuration Manager 2007 has been installed and service packed to the latest (SP2) build. Now let's assume that the Evaluation...

Looking to get some hands-on lab work on how to do infrastructure and application performance monitoring with System Center 2012 – Operations Manager?  If so then this one’s for you: ===== Deploying the infrastructure for a private cloud is just...

There is a really important web cast that is happening tomorrow that I wanted to remind you all about. You won't want to miss it. Here is the description of the event. Registration link is below. The definition, business value, and technology...

Hi everyone, Tyler Franke here with another ConfigMgr tip for you.  Have you ever been working in the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 admin console and found that when you  right-click on a user in a collection, select properties and...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today on SCOM 2007.  This one talks about an issue where ACS reports only return a max of 42 days worth of data: ===== Symptoms When using System Center Operations Manager 2007, the audit database...

Here’s a new KB article we published today. This one tells you how to fix an issue where error code 0000C800 is generated when connecting to the App-V Management Console: ===== Symptoms When connecting to the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App...

It has been a while since we posted some new information about APM in OpsMgr 2012. Michael wrote a post in August, about working with Alerts , which was following up on a couple of previous ones about how to get things running , how APM works , and how...

Hi, I am Naveen Kumar Akkugari and I work at Microsoft in the Management Platforms and Service Delivery (MPSD) organization. I work on the Configuration Manager Infrastructure team which provides services to roughly 300,000 client machines at Microsoft...

Hello, Today we published the January Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . We fielded nine questions on various topics during the webcast , including bulletins released, deployment tools, and update detection tools. There were two...

Hi everyone, Tyler Franke here. Recently I worked with a customer who was seeing an issue where Software Updates would no longer synchronize from WSUS, plus the ones that previously did sync and were deployed were not available to clients.  We did...

Hi everyone, David Smith here.  I’m a Senior Support Engineer here on the ConfigMgr team and I recently came across an interesting issue that I thought might be worth a mention here on our blog.  In this case, an Operating System Deployment...

Hi everyone, Alvin Morales here.  Recently a customer wanted to sequence Microsoft Office 2010 with Dynamics CRM 2011 using the Offline mode with Outlook, and although we don't have an official support statement on this (meaning we haven’t fully...

Microsoft’s own Chandan Bharti posted another great article over on his personal blog about how to create a diagnostic task for Unix/Linux services in System Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM 2007). This one actually builds on his previous post about...

Microsoft’s own Chandan Bharti recently posted a great article over on his personal blog about how to create a recovery task for Linux services in System Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM 2007).  If you’re looking to do the same then you’ll want...

Hello. As I previously mentioned in the Advance Notification Service blog post on Thursday, today we are releasing seven security bulletins, one of which is rated Critical in severity, with the remaining six classified as Important. These bulletins...

We’ve seen this issue come up a couple of times so I wanted to give it a mention here just in case you run into it. The problem is that you may notice that a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr 2007) Secondary Site Server is unable to...

Here’s a tricky one.  How do you get the GUID ID of a work item using SMLets? First let’s start with getting the GUID ID of a Windows computer object. We could do something like this: Sweet.  Easy. What if we did the same thing with a work item...

Most of the virtualization related CMDB data is discovered in SCVMM by SCOM and then brought to SCSM by the SCOM-SCSM connector.  This includes things like virtual machines, hosts, host groups, etc.  So – what does the SCVMM-SCSM connector do...

Hello. Today we’re releasing our advance notification for the January security bulletin release, which is scheduled for Tuesday, January 10. This month’s release includes seven bulletins addressing eight vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows...

In this blog we will look at how to develop a custom Silverlight module using the portal WCF service. This module will query for change requests assigned to the currently logged in portal user. Please note that this blog would be easier to understand...