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  ...

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...

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 (...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Microsoft Virtual Academy team has put together a new training series on System Center 2012 SP1 – Service Manager.  Here’s an overview of the sessions: Service Manager in System Center 2012 SP1 - Part 1 Import Data and Runbooks here Service Manager...

System Center Universe 2013 was a great success!  We had hundreds of people in attendance in person and thousands watching live on the webcast!  The speakers and presentations they gave were really excellent.  The Catapult Systems team...

Hi Everybody, This has been covered in the blogosphere pretty heavily now, but maybe a little bit more will help prevent the next accidental "discovery" of the issue. The following was sent to me from Paul Chen, and he asked me to post it for him...

So John Messec and I were delivering our session at Tech Ready 16 yesterday (SCIM351 - Enabling Hosted IaaS Clouds for Service Providers, big shout out and my thanks to all who attended) and I was asked to put out a quick blog post showing the URLs that...

This post is intended to help you get started with the Client-Side Monitoring (CSM) feature in Operations Manager 2012. Client-Side Monitoring provides a real end user perspective on application health for .NET applications, as users are interacting with...

One of the questions I am asked most frequently is “When will the Exchange Connector be supported?”  I’m really excited to announce that the Exchange Connector will finally be an official part of the product and fully supported when we release System...

Today we revised Security Advisory 2755801 to address issues in Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8, this revision was released in conjunction with Adobe’s update process. Customers who have automatic updates enabled will not...

We’re kicking off the February 2013 Security Bulletin Release with Advance Notification of 12 bulletins for release Tuesday, February 12. This release brings five Critical and seven Important-class bulletins, which address 57 unique vulnerabilities...

Last week, I presented on the topic of “Advanced System Center Reporting” at the System Center Universe conference.  During that session, I mentioned that I had recently posted a new Wiki page on TechNet that indexes all of the known resources for...

Looking to get a head start on virtualizing Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 with App-V? If so then this one’s for you. Microsoft’s own Arnab Biswas just posted a recipe that describes how to sequence Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 for use with Microsoft Application...

We recently published a new KB article that talks about an issue where targeting the ConfigMgr 2012 UNIX/Linux client for Software Inventory causes Client Activity to change to Inactive. This issue also causes the following error message in scxcm.log...

Over the last few days customers observed Asset Intelligence (AI) synchronization failures on System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 sites. AIUpdateSvc.log entries similar to the following were recorded. Error InternalError during...

Hi everyone, Jeramy Skidmore here. Recently I had a case where the Windows Update Service (wuauserv) was disabled in the environment for all servers but after installing System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection (SCEP) it was found that the Windows Update...

We just published a KB article about an issue where new Orchestrator Runbooks and/or folders that have been created using the Runbook Designer are not displayed even though the user has the appropriate permissions to see them. You may also notice that...

Hi Everyone, this is Alvin Morales, Senior Support Escalation Engineer for System Center and I wanted to take a minute to talk about a potential issue with virtual switches in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager SP1. Recently I’ve come across a...