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...

Back in September, we announced our strategy around unified device management , and how the next releases of Windows Intune and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager will deliver on that vision. As part of today’s update to our Cloud OS vision...

Here’s a new KB we published on an issue in App-V where the sequencer errors out and package creation fails. We’ve seen this a few times and it basically comes down to not having all the latest updates applied to the sequencing computer so the fix is...

We have a new article out that lists System Center Configuration Manager public hotfixes and KB articles that are included in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 (SP1). You can check it out here: 2801420 - List of public KB articles...

We have a new article out that lists a couple issues you might see after deploying DPM 2012 SP1. You can check it out here: 2801420 - Issues that occur after you deploy System Center 2012 DPM SP1 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2801056 ) J.C. Hornbeck...

This morning we announced the availability of System Center 2012 SP1.   You can read more about the release on the System Center blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/archive/2013/01/15/system-center-2012-sp1-is-generally-available.aspx...

This morning we announced the general availability of System Center 2012 SP1!  While the RTM bits have been available for a few weeks already to TechNet/MSDN subscribers and volume licensing customers, today marks the broad availability of System...

This morning we announced the availability of System Center 2012 SP1.   You can read more about the release on the System Center blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/archive/2013/01/15/system-center-2012-sp1-is-generally-available.aspx...

This morning we announced the general availability of System Center 2012 SP1.   You can read more about the release on the System Center blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/archive/2013/01/15/system-center-2012-sp1-is-generally-available...

This morning we announced the availability of System Center 2012 SP1.   You can read more about the release on the System Center blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/archive/2013/01/15/system-center-2012-sp1-is-generally-available.aspx...

Existing Windows Intune customers, Today we announced the latest release of the Windows Intune service . We know you’ll love the new features like Windows 8 support, System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 integration and Modern Device Management...

This morning we announced the availability of System Center 2012 SP1.   You can read more about the release on the System Center blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/archive/2013/01/15/system-center-2012-sp1-is-generally-available.aspx...

Dear Users! We have just announced the first public release of System Center Global Service Monitor (GSM). GSM provides capability to monitor externally facing web sites and web services from geo-distributed locations. System Center customers can configure...

Today we’re publishing the January 2013 Out-of-Band Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . During the webcast, we fielded 17 questions focusing on Security Update MS13-088 , and SecurityAdvisory 2794220 which was deprecated by...

Here’s one more App-V KB article we published today. This one discusses and issue where using the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Management Server website to grant access to a package to an Active Directory group fails. There are a couple...

This morning we announced the availability of System Center 2012 SP1.   You can read more about the release on the System Center blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/archive/2013/01/15/system-center-2012-sp1-is-generally-available.aspx...

We’ve posted a few KB articles for System Center 2012 SP1 and since they were timed to go out with the release of the SP1 bits I didn’t want to dedicate a separate post for each. Instead I’ve listed them here just so you’ll be aware of what they are....

We’ve posted a few KB articles for System Center 2012 SP1 and since they were timed to go out with the release of the SP1 bits I didn’t want to dedicate a separate post for each. Instead I’ve listed them here just so you’ll be aware of what they are....