I’m Hilton Lange, Software Development Engineer on the VMM team, and I’d love to share with you my personal favorite feature in VMM 2012.  We’ve introduced the ability to constantly monitor and rebalance load on your clusters by using “Dynamic Optimization...

We are announcing support changes for the following releases. These changes will be reflected in the Configuration Manager 2007 Supported Configurations and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Supported Configurations within the next month. Configuration...

Before we discuss this month’s release, I wanted to briefly touch on the big event happening this week. No, I’m not talking about the romantically-themed holiday on Thursday. I’m talking about the start of spring training and the return...

Just wanted to let you know that we’ve completed compatibility testing for the System Center Security Monitoring Pack for Endpoint Protection and it now officially supports System Center 2012 Operations Manager Service Pack 1. No updates or changes are...

Hello everyone, John Behneman here, and today I wanted to tell you about an interesting App-V issue I ran into the other day and what we did to fix it. What happened was that the Microsoft Application Virtualization client service failed to start and...

In this blog, the second in our series, we will take a closer look at Logical Networks and review some of the key considerations, best practice recommendations and guidance for designing, implementing and managing this component of your Virtualized Network...

Overview ​Message Queuing (also known as MSMQ) is a server application that enables applications to communicate across heterogeneous networks and systems that may be temporarily offline or otherwise inaccessible. Instead of an application communicating...

Today we’re publishing the February 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . We fielded 15 questions on various topics during the webcast, with specific bulletin questions focusing primarily on Microsoft Internet Explorer (...

We’re pleased to announce a new release of the downloadable documentation for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. The downloadable files contain the product documentation for Configuration Manager with no service pack and for Configuration...

I just posted the data warehouse architecture diagram that I showed during my presentation at System Center Universe 2013 to the TechNet Gallery.  You can download it from here: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Service-Manager-Data-30239db6  ...

If you use System Center Configuration Manager 2007 with App-V then you might want to take a look at this new KB we published. It’s a hotfix that addresses a situation where you may see a memory leak when you use an App-V package that contains icons....

If you use App-V with Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 then you might want to take a look at this new hotfix we published. It addresses a situation where you can have a memory leak if the App-V package you’re publishing contains icons. In this scenario...

When you try to back up data by using Windows Azure Online Backup, is the backup process is unsuccessful? If so this hotfix may be for you. The Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS) certificate uses a new certification authority (CA) chain and this...

I’m Hilton Lange, Software Development Engineer in the VMM 2012 team. I’d like to continue my previous article about Dynamic Optimization (DO) by telling you about its closely related sister feature, Power Optimization (PO).  DO allows you to automatically...

We just published a new KB article that explains an issue with Mobile Device Management installation errors on ConfigMgr 2012 SP1. It’s an issue that can pop up if .NET Framework 4 is installed on the Management Point before IIS is enabled but the fix...

We have a new downloadable hotfix available for the following issue: The Choose Updates page of the Schedule Updates Wizard does not list any available software updates for a Windows Server 2012 operating system image in Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration...

As reported by Facebook and Apple , Microsoft can confirm that we also recently experienced a similar security intrusion. Consistent with our security response practices, we chose not to make a statement during the initial information gathering process...

Hi, Donovan Vanhaltren here with a tip on an issue you might see when migrating VMs from Windows Server 2008 R2 in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Service Pack 1.  When trying to migrate virtual machines created on Windows Server 2008R2...

Hi, Michael Vargo here, and I wanted to take a minute and talk about how you can provide redundancy for End User Recovery of DFS shared data using Data Protection Manager. The environment diagram below provides a baseline for an explanation of the options...

Hi, Babulal Ghule here, and in this post I will walk you through the steps to install System Center 2012 Service Manager SP1 (SCSM) with a SQL 2012 AlwaysON Availability Groups. First, let’s understand the two scenarios for using SQL AlwaysON availability...

Today we revised Security Advisory 2755801 to address issues in Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8. This advisory revision was released in conjunction with Adobe’s update process. Customers who have automatic updates enabled...

You may encounter issues with the C:\ Drive not being properly redirected from the guest to the host (and thus causing the “Documents/My Documents” folder to not be redirected and synchronized between the host and the guest) when Smart Card...

We just published a new KB article that talks about an issue where adding hosts to System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Service Pack 1 fails with the following error: Agent installation failed copying C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012...

Looking for the best resources for your App-V v5 migration or deployment? If so then Microsoft’s very own Steve Thomas has amassed a veritable salad of links and information that I’m sure you'll find invaluable in making your App-V 5.0 rollout a success...

If you have recently installed Cumulative Update 7 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (CU7) on your management servers and then attempted to push install a Linux\Unix agent then you may have encountered this issue. The agent installation packages...