Microsoft’s own Shane Brasher has just released another great new video.  This video covers System Center Data Protection Manager client setup, protection group configuration, client synchronization and client side file restore.  Check it out...

We are in the final stages of copy edit for the System Center Service Manager 2010 Unleashed book now.  It’s up on Amazon now available for pre-order.  The release date on Amazon says something like October 2, but I’m pretty sure it will be...

I know this isn’t App-V specific but I thought you might want to know about a great training opportunity we have coming up at the end of the month for Office 365.  On May 24th through 26th Microsoft Learning is hosting a free 3-day Jump Start tailored...

Not sure how I missed this one back when it first posted but our very own Charles Joy posted a great video demo over on his blog about how to use Opalis to update the Hyper-V VM integration components: Have you recently upgraded your Windows Server 2008...

Marcel Zehner just informed me this morning that he has released version 2.0 of his CodePlex project for Opalis Integration Pack for SCSM.  Congrats Marcel and thanks for sharing this with the community! Here is the list of activities that the integration...

This article describes a hotfix package that contains the latest hotfixes for Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.6 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and that is dated April 2011. Issues that are resolved by this hotfix package The initial query of the...

Have you ever checked the option "Don't prompt when running this task in the future" by mistake when running a task in SCOM 2007 and you want to clear that check to get the task prompting again? If so, this will walk you through the steps to...

In this series we will be blogging about some of our best practices using System Center Configuration Manager for updates deployment. I work on managing updates to 280k clients at Microsoft, so I have a lot of interest in this space. To start with I have...

The Set-Quota PowerShell script (attached below) applies or removes disk quotas for protected client computers. It uses the expected data size per client value of the protection group to set the required disk quota for the client computers protected under...

Last week we published a couple posts that covered creating Package Accelerators and how to create them with the GUI interface, and today we’re going to build on that by showing you how to do the same thing using the Command Line Interface (CLI). ...

If you’ve ever said to yourself “Wow, I sure wish I knew more about all the really cool things System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 could do” or “I wish there was a site that had all the best SCVMM 2012 resources all in one spot” then I’ve got just...

I’ve had this question so many times lately that I’ve just got to write a blog post about it!  This is the scenario… Create an AD connector Import users (or really any other kind of object – computer, printer, group) via that connector The user account...

Just a quick heads up on a new KB article we published today.  This one’s really only relevant from a support standpoint as it details the information our troubleshooting tool gathers but I thought you’d like to know about it anyway. Summary System...

Yesterday we talked about what App-V Package Accelerators were and how the process worked, and today we’re going to continue that theme and show how Package Accelerators are vehicles for sharing within the App-V community. We’ll even walk through a couple...

Looks like the good folks over on the Configuration Manager writing team just announced their Configuration Manager Documentation Library update for April 2011: The Configuration Manager 2007 documentation library ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us...

Here’s a heads up on another interesting article I found over in the TechNet Wiki. This one is by Microsoft Partner Kristian Nese and it talks about all the cool new features that are part of the library in SCVMM 2012: With all the new features in System...

Hi everyone, I just wanted to give you a quick heads up on a cool resource for SCVMM 2012 that a colleague turned me on to today.  Our friends over on the Hyper-V.Nu blog have been busy at work putting the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012...

What are Package Accelerators? Package Accelerators support the “Predictable Packaging” pillar of the new App-V 4.6 SP1 Sequencer. Package Accelerators allow users to sequence easily and automatically large, complex application packages.  Instead...

This post will discuss our experiences defining and extending the SCSM incident data model and forms used in our SCSM implementation. Our team (MPSD) provides a comprehensive monitoring and management service used by Microsoft.com, TechNet, Windows Update...

We published the following new Knowledge Base article/update today that’s primarily to address localization but note that there are a couple additional fixes that it includes: ===== Summary This update for MED-V 2.0 provides the capability for localized...

  As a follow up to Emre’s article on how to create packages using the Server App-V Sequencer , we are providing step by step instructions on how to sequence and deploy PetShop 4. This is especially useful if you are new to the whole concept of virtualization...

Quite a few customers have asked us over the last couple of years if we would localize Service Manager into Arabic.  Since Arabic is what is called a “bi-directional language” there is some significant additional work we would have to do in the infrastructure...

Symptoms The information below describes how to use System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to determine whether The Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Kit for App-V is installed prior to sending the Office 2010 virtual package. This is a good practice...

Microsoft Learning hosted another new and exclusive Jump Start virtual training event – Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals and we are thrilled to announce availability of the HD-quality video recordings – FREE – on TechNet Edge and soon...

Yesterday we released Part 1 in this series, and now in Part 2 we will look at the Automated Best Practices throughout the new App-V 4.6 SP1 Sequencer. In Part 1, Problem Notification features were addressed, which are also an important part of Automated...