This is a continuation in a series of blog posts on using SMLets Beta 3. Previous blog posts in this series: Using SMLets Beta 3 Post #1 – Using Get-SCSMObject, Get-SCSMClass to Dump Data from SCSM Using SMLets Beta 3 Post #2–Using Get-SCSMEnumeration...

This is a continuation in a series of blog posts on using SMLets Beta 3.  Previous blog posts in this series: Using SMLets Beta 3 Post #1 – Using Get-SCSMObject, Get-SCSMClass to Dump Data from SCSM I was talking to a customer today and they wanted...

Want to get a jump start on learning WSUS?  Or maybe you want to hone your expertise on a few specific topics?  If so this new roadmap published by Microsoft’s own Yuri Diogenes is for you: Patch management is a crucial process in today’s IT...

Yesterday we released SMLets Beta 3 .  This will be the first in a series of posts on using SMLets Beta 3. To start out with let’s answer a question in the comments on the release announcement blog post from Sam: I also wanted to ask you about the...

Today we released a major new release of SMLets – Beta 3!  Download the new release at the CodePlex site . Jim Truher and I have been hard at work adding a lot of new capabilities, cmdlets, testing harnesses, scripts, cleaning up the code base, and...

OS Deployment of Hyper-V through SCVMM 2012 makes it very easy to turn bare metal machines into VM Hosts. The process deploys the OS and creates a consistent configuration to provide a layer of uniformity to your hosts even though there can be significant...

Just a quick FYI on a great article written by our very own Michael Kleef.  If you’re seeing Error Code: 0000C824 in the Management console then you’ll want to check this out.  Keep in mind that this applies to any MMC that’s acting up, not...

Last summer at the Black Hat security conference, we announced a philosophical shift in how we refer to vulnerability disclosure, called "Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure" (CVD). Our intent was to focus on how coordination and collaboration are required...

Just a quick heads up on a new System Center Operations Manager 2007 Knowledge Base article we just published. This one shows you how to apply a Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 cumulative update to clustered Root Management Server ...

Consider the following scenario: You create a deployment package on a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) site server. You create a program in the package. The name of the program contains extended ASCII characters...

Microsoft SCVMM 2012 can manage Microsoft Server Application Virtualization (Server App-V) packages. In this blog post, we are going to explain what a Server App-V package means and how we can create Server App-V packages with Microsoft Server Application...

This hotfix package addresses the following issues: When you try to load a package and there is insufficient space in the Application Virtualization cache, you receive a "0A-0000E01E" error. You try to perform a publishing refresh operation...

Microsoft’s very own John Vintzel recently posted another fantastic article discussing Configuration Manager 2012 offline servicing for Operating System Images and how it can be used to apply updates to operating system images while they are in the Configuration...

Hey everyone, the OS Deployment guys have blogged a new topic, this one is about offline servicing.  Check them out here . “…..In previous posts we have discussed changes to PXE and the Distribution Point, as well as new ways to manage and monitor...

System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE 2010) is certified to work with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.  Important Note – SCE2010 will not be enhanced to support Dynamic Memory and Remote FX which are new features that were added in Windows Server 2008 R2...

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 Dynamic Optimization and Power Optimization in SCVMM 2012: VMM brought us a lot of new stuff. We...

Here’s an issue I ran into the other day and since I didn’t see a lot documented about it I thought I’d go ahead and post the fix here. Symptoms Using System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 to backup a SQL database fails with the following error:...

Hi Everyone, this is Nitin Bhat and Hector Linares from the fabric management team in SCVMM. While talking with TAP customers we got some great questions that we wanted to share with you all. ·Q: How does the SMI-S connection occur between VMM2012 and...

Operations Manager Integration and Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) Background System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2 uses System Center Operations Manager 2007 to monitor the health and availability of the virtual machines and...

Operations Manager Integration and Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) Background System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2 uses System Center Operations Manager 2007 to monitor the health and availability of the virtual machines and...

Hello, Today we published the April Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . We fielded 14 questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released, deployment tools, and update detection tools. There were two questions...

Isolation and State Separation are two very important concepts in the world of application virtualization, but we throw those terms around a lot without really explaining what we mean by them. I’m going to attempt to explain what those concepts mean to...

Just a quick heads up on a new WSUS/Windows Update Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one talks about an issue where after a Windows Update client connects to an internal server that has custom content published to it, the client encounters...

Here’s an issue I ran into the other day and since I didn’t see a lot documented about it I thought I’d go ahead and post the fix here.  If you’re getting an Access Denied error when trying to connect to a client using the Remote Tools then here...

Just a quick FYI on another interesting article by Leandro Carvalho that showed up in the TechNet Wiki yesterday.  This one discusses how to use VM Templates in SCVMM 2012 to deploy a server incredibly quickly and easily: Automation! This is a word...