Microsoft’s own Yvette O’Meally just posted an announcement saying that you’ll need to renew your System Center Online Authentication Certificate before it expires. If you do not renew your certificate and it expires, you will no longer be able to synchronize...

Hi everyone, Rajeet Nair here, and today I’d like to talk about troubleshooting Service Deployment in SCVMM 2012.  As you probably know, one of the key new features in VMM 2012 is Service Deployment. Alaks Sevugan has posted blog entries that provide...

The TechEd 2011 event going on now in Atlanta has great resources for learning more about how IT can embrace consumer technologies to become more agile and efficient. In terms of client management, the “Consumerization of IT” trend breaks...

Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) stores some virtual application files in a virtual drive implementation, usually labeled as drive letter Q:\. App-V supports detection and remediation of application files on this drive using both real time...

In Server App-V, we wanted to provide a way to make your virtual packages customizable for you; a number of settings you can create based on your needs. In the next few moments, you will be introduced to deployment configuration items, a very unique feature...

Just a quick FYI that yesterday we re-released MS11-018 . If you are using Internet Explorer 7 on supported editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 you may be offered this re-release. [ MSRC ] J.C. Hornbeck | System Center Knowledge Engineer The...

Hi everyone, Marc Reynolds here, and I wanted to take a minute to discuss a few issues recently where customers were having problems configuring protection of SharePoint 2010 running on their Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 server. When you attempt to...

Hi everyone, John Behneman here, I’m a Support Engineer on the System Center Virtualization team and I wanted to show you how to quickly and easily fix an issue you might see with some Java based applications when sequenced (virtualized) with Microsoft...

Hi everyone, Anurag Shukla here.  The following article discusses how to move the Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr 2007) site database (DB) from a SQL Server 2005 SP2 based computer to a SQL Server 2008 based computer.  Note that this may not...

As we announced yesterday we are proud to have NetApp and Cisco participating in the Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track program and delivering pre-validated private cloud solutions for customers. The new NetApp Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track with Cisco builds upon...

Tech Ed North America 2011 http://bit.ly/mdfwpA kicked into high gear today with news that Cisco and NetApp are participating in Microsoft’s Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track program. Together, NetApp and Cisco have developed a pre-validated private cloud...

Hello,  Today we re-released MS11-018 . If you are using Internet Explorer 7 on supported editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 you may be offered this re-release. For more details, please see the security bulletin, MS11-018 . Thank...

Here’s another new System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one tells you how to troubleshoot the "Not Responding" host status in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and System Center...

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On 64-bit operating systems, some IIS-based Configuration Manager 2007 roles (Management Point, etc.) require 64-bit ASP.NET components to be registered. If we register 32 bit components instead of 64-bit (only one can be registered at the same time)...

The System Center team is pleased to announce the Community Evaluation Program. The program is designed to provide IT professionals a structured approach to evaluating System Center and Forefront products before their final release. Members of this program...

Hi everyone Well, I am quite literally 30,000 feet in the air as I post this!  We are on our way to Tech Ed North America, and we have a great lineup of Opalis and Orchestrator sessions which you can find details of in the table below. We will also...

Come to SIM208 where Ryan O' Hara, our Senior Director (System Center and Forefront) will wow you with a great overview of what's coming in System Center 2012! Do you want to know more about how Microsoft is bringing it's vast experiential learning running...

Hi Service Manager Fans, Tech Ed 2011 is upon us!!!  I’m excited to catch up with everyone and share what’s been happening and what’s coming with System Center and specifically Service Manager. Here’s the list of Service Manager sessions at Tech...

This year, the Windows Intune team will be well represented at Teched 2011 , which is taking place at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, from May 16th to May 19th. We are excited to be a part of this conference and to have an opportunity...

Let’s say you are doing some fancy stuff like manually crafting some notifications like this blog post: http://blogs.technet.com/servicemanager/archive/2009/12/15/custom-notification-workflow-on-incident-assignement-or-re-assignment.aspx   …and you...

If you’ve been following the blogging efforts of the System Center support and product teams for any length of time then you know we have quite a few different blogs based on the technology or product we focus on.  For example, we have the App-V...

Hello, Today we published the May Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . We fielded twelve questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released and the Malicious Software Removal Tool. There were two questions...

The self-service portal right now always displays datetime values in GMT since we don’t have a way to know which time zone the requesting user is in.  We try to make it clear that the datetime is in GMT time zone like this: Unfortunately, I think...

Hi everyone, Konstantin Zoryn here, and today I’d like to talk about importing and exporting Templates in SCVMM 2012.  System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (VMM 2012) allows creating service and virtual machine templates and there are many...