We just published a new KB article that explains an issue where in Orchestrator 2012, the Monitor Event Log fires every time there is any new event on the specified computer regardless of filters, or if the event does not match the filters, the published...

Hi everyone, Alvin Morales here. If you are using System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Service Pack 1 (VMM) to manage storage and assign LUNS, there is a collection of updates that may improve this functionality. These updates are for Windows Server...

This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. The vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if a user visits an affected website by way of a specially crafted URL. An attacker...

You asked for it, and now its here : System Center Advisor now supports Windows Server 2012 as well as Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 ! By installing the latest version of the Advisor agent on servers running Windows Server 2012 or Hyper-V Server...

Today we’re publishing the March 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . We fielded 13 questions on various topics during the webcast, with specific bulletin questions focusing primarily on Internet Explorer ( MS13-021 ), SharePoint...

Hello Configuration Manager administrators. It’s time to get acquainted with Windows PowerShell! We’ve finally introduced native Windows PowerShell support with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1. Many of you know that Windows...

The recent Wave-D release of the Windows Intune service and the release of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 enables enterprise management of the Windows RT devices for customers using the Intune standalone management service or System Center...

BELOW IS A LIST OF SESSIONS THAT WILL BE PRESENTED BY THE OPSMGR (SCOM) PRODUCT ENGINEERING TEAM AT MMS 2013 ( http://www.2013mms.com/ ) BELOW IS A LIST OF SESSIONS THAT WILL BE PRESENTED BY THE OPSMGR (SCOM) MVPs AND PARTNERS AT MMS 2013 ...

As my career in security response has grown over the years, I am often reminded of the words of Italian author Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa , who stated, “If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.”...

We are committed to adapting our policies as the world evolves and with the new Windows Store, we evaluated how to best release security updates for Windows Store apps. Our goal is to have a quick, transparent and painless security update process. With...

The goal of Operations Manager (and of course the whole System Center Suite) is to provide consistent, world-class manageability. We claim that our product provides best in class monitoring for Microsoft server workloads with rich knowledge to help detect...

I’m Hilton Lange, a Software Development Engineer on the VMM team. I want to conclude my series of placement blogs by talking about the custom rules that you can configure on your VMM server to give you more control over where your VMs are deployed. In...

A new capability in System Center 2012 SP1 - Orchestrator allows an activity developer to define "cascading dependencies" between input parameters.  For example if the user chooses a state like 'California' in the State input parameter...

Out of the box the relationship between a request offering and an incident or service request is displayed as a read only label control.  The Monitoring and Management (M&M) team here at Microsoft had a need to be able to view and change that...

From Atchut Barli: I have seen few customers who tried the blog http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager/archive/2012/12/07/incidents-or-service-requests-sliced-by-months-quarters.aspx to prepare reports using CalendarMonth in DateDim as Slicer find...

Antoni Hanus, one of the System Center Premier Field Engineers has put together a nice blog post describing how to create a custom console task in Service Manager to allow console users to launch the Configuration Manager remote control program from the...

I’ve put a few blog posts up here about form customizations in the past: Customizing Forms – Part 1 – Adding a New User Picker Control to the Incident Form Customizing Forms – Part 2 – Adding the Affected User Picker to the Change Request Form I hear...

The original Cloud Services Process Management Pack cannot be installed on System Center 2012 SP1 – Service Manager without some manual workarounds.  Just last night we released an updated version of the Cloud Services MP that will work with System...

Today we’re providing advance notification for the release of seven bulletins, four Critical and three Important, for March 2013. The Critical bulletins address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Silverlight, Internet Explorer, Office and Microsoft Server...

Andrew Barton has just written up another good blog post on how to send mail to users in the “Configuration Items: Computers, Services and People” field in System Center 2012 SP1 – Service Manager.  Have a look here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/wincat...

The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library have been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: February 1, 2013 at the top of the topic. This month’s...

Hi, Richard Mascarenhas here and I wanted to mention an issue you might run into when adding a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Core computer to System Center Virtual 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). When adding a Core computer you may see the following...

Hi everyone, Prabhat Joshi here. After installing and configuring a System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Reporting server, you may find that you are unable to find any reports in the Reporting workspace in the Operations console. When checking the...

Hi everyone, Yuvraj Attarde here and today I ‘d like to pass along a trip on how to easily assign an IP address using PowerShell during deployments in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager. Let’s say for example that you have the requirement to assign...

  Hi all! This is Vladimir from the App-V team and today I wanted to give you a quick tip on how you can virtualize PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel 2010 using Microsoft App-V. I recently worked an issue where we were trying to virtualize the Microsoft...