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Linux Guest VM IP does not appear in WAP
You may run into difficulty with Linux VMs created from templates when using Windows Azure Pack...
Date: 10/31/2014
Update Rollup 4 for System Center 2012 R2
There are tons of fixes for System Center 2012 R2 in the latest Update Rollup (UR). Follow the link...
Date: 10/29/2014
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.0 Released
The latest version of MVMC has been released. P2V of Windows systems is now included. From the site:...
Date: 10/16/2014
Dual Boot Surface 3 with Windows 10
This is an unusual post for this blog, but I found the process of dual booting my Surface 3 into...
Date: 10/16/2014
WAPTrace: Simple tracing for Windows Azure Pack
Current Version: v1.4 Now traces Service Provider Foundation (SPF)! WAPTrace is a PowerShell script...
Date: 10/11/2014
WAP and SPF Tracing
How do you trace WAP (or SPF)? This paper will walk you through the steps. An excerpt from the...
Date: 10/02/2014
WAP Installation and Configuration
This post covers three papers I have written describing how to set up Windows Azure Pack in a...
Date: 10/02/2014
64bit PowerShell performance in Orchestrator
Sometimes you need to run a resource intensive PowerShell command using the ‘Run .Net Script’...
Date: 08/29/2014
What version of WAP and SPF am I running?
A good friend of mine, DeWitt, has put together a list of WAP versions for reference. He also found...
Date: 08/22/2014
Update Rollups for System Center 2012 R2 and SP1
Just a heads up that two UR3’s for System Center products have been released. There are many fixes...
Date: 08/11/2014
VDI VMs deployed through RDS do not appear in the VMM 2012 console
I’ve run into this issue a few times, and finding the resolution was not easy. Anyone deploying VMs...
Date: 07/01/2014
SCOM Maintenance Mode and Orchestrator
I have had a few customers looking for a solution to SCOM maintenance mode using Orchestrator. Well,...
Date: 06/13/2014
Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 R2 is now available
The latest Update Rollup has been released for System Center. It contains fixes for many System...
Date: 06/13/2014
Script Browser! Script Analyzer!
Script Browser“A world of scripts at your fingertips.” That’s the apt heading for a new add-in for...
Date: 06/13/2014
Orchestrator 2012 R2 Integration Pack for VMware vSphere
A whole new set of tools for vSphere has been released for Orchestrator 2012 R2. Over 30 Activities...
Date: 06/13/2014
VMM Job fails with error 801
This is one of the more common errors we run into. There is an object in the database that no longer...
Date: 05/27/2014
Update Rollups for SC 2012 SP1 and 2012 R2
Another quarterly Update Rollup (UR) has been released for System Center 2012 SP1 and SC 2012 R2. In...
Date: 01/29/2014
SC VMM: Moving or Creating a VM fails with errors (2912) 0x80041001
Recently I have seen a rush of VMM cases that involve moving a VM through migration, or otherwise...
Date: 01/24/2014
Orchestrator Functions and Regular Expressions (Regex)
There are a number of ways to manipulate data using the Orchestrator built-in Activities. Text...
Date: 01/17/2014
Orchestrator Web Console Fails after Upgrade to 2012 R2
This is an issue we have been tracking for a while now. Please see the KB article on how to get...
Date: 12/16/2013
What version of VMM am I running?!?
A new KB has been released that makes it simple to know what build of VMM you are running. This is...
Date: 12/12/2013
Technical Documentation: Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2
This is the go to source for VMM. Can VMM do x? How do you make VMM do x? Both questions answered in...
Date: 12/04/2013
Free ebook: Microsoft System Center: Cloud Management with App Controller
A great free book has been released for App Controller 2012 R2. This is not a product generally...
Date: 12/04/2013
You may have problems with Virtual Machine Manager if some SPNs are missing
As a support engineer at Microsoft, I see almost daily some issues with Service Principle Names...
Date: 11/25/2013
System Center Update Rollups!
Two new updates have been released for System Center 2012 and for System Center 2012 SP1. There are...
Date: 11/07/2013
Free ebook: Designing Orchestrator Runbooks
A great new book has been released from Microsoft Press that covers Orchestrator and the creation of...
Date: 10/09/2013
VMM Repro: Simple tracing for VMM
Supports:VMM 2012 SP1 VMM 2012 R2 VMM Repro captures detailed information on systems involved in a...
Date: 10/07/2013
SCOtrace – Orchestrator Trace Tool
What is SCOtrace? SCOtrace increases the Orchestrator log level, provides time for you to reproduce...
Date: 06/14/2013
Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 SP1
This blog focuses on VMM and Orchestrator, and for VMM alone there are 20 fixes in this update. Many...
Date: 05/16/2013
Update-Help: VMM PowerShell
If you've opened the VMM 2012 SP1 PowerShell console and performed a command to get help on cmdlets,...
Date: 04/05/2013
Poster: Networking in Virtual Machine Manager
There is a new post on the Download Center of networking in Virtual Machine Manager. It’s a bit...
Date: 04/02/2013
Orchestrator Event Monitor fires multiple times for new events
What is Microsoft Orchestrator?! This blog now covers SC VMM as well as Orchestrator System Center...
Date: 02/16/2013
Adding a Host and Enabling Connectivity in VMM 2012 SP1
Sometimes a Host cannot be added to VMM, especially when there is a cluster involved. The steps...
Date: 02/15/2013
VMM Admin Console 2012 SP1 takes a few minutes to open
Here’s one that might stump you occasionally. You open the Admin Console and instead of popping open...
Date: 02/15/2013
Managing Hyper-V hosts using Virtual Machine Manager fails with Error: 0x8033803b. Extra remediation steps.
I just resolved a case where remediation as listed in the article below alone did not work, but...
Date: 02/15/2013
Technical Documentation for SC VMM 2012 SP1
Two official technical documents on how to perform any action in the GUI, and all VMM Cmdlets are...
Date: 04/10/2012
SC VMM 2012: PowerShell Cheat Sheet
Over two years ago I created a cheat sheet, or cube note, for SCVMM 2008 R2. That post is still...
Date: 04/04/2012
Upgrade to 2012 when using ‘SQL Express’ in SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1
This is a bit of a trick so I’m sharing the steps I followed. The problem arises from SCVMM 2012 not...
Date: 12/01/2011
P2V of Windows 2003 fails with reference to SP2.cab
This is an issue we in support have faced for years. The information provided by ‘Warning (13257)’...
Date: 11/30/2011
P2V fails with GPT disk using EFI boot
Some new x64 systems boot from a GPT disk that contains an EFI or UEFI boot partition with an EFI...
Date: 10/27/2011
VM does not Boot Following P2V or Disk2VHD
So you perform a successful P2V using SCVMM. Or perhaps you use it’s cousin, ‘Disk2VHD’ from...
Date: 10/04/2011
TCP/IP Conflict with Ghosted NIC: Legacy to Synthetic NIC
As far back as Windows 95 there has been the problem of more than one NIC with the same IP address....
Date: 10/04/2011
How to create a bootable ISO using tools from the WAIK
Another great write-up by a good friend and colleague of mine. Dave works at Microsoft, but on...
Date: 04/30/2011
SCVMM 2008 R2 February Rollup Released!
Description of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 hotfix rollup package: February 8,...
Date: 02/08/2011
The new "Dynamic Memory" feature of Hyper-V
BrianMadden.com recently posted a great article on the upcoming feature of Dynamic Memory for...
Date: 01/28/2011
VMMTrace and VMMTraceALT: Simplified VMM Tracing
Now Supports SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 and VMM 2012! WHAT IS VMMTRACE? VMMTrace and VMMTraceALT capture...
Date: 01/07/2011
Common P2V Failures Explained
Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion is one of...
Date: 11/14/2010
P2V of Domain Controllers – Online or Offline?
We know that SCVMM can convert physical machines into virtual machines with all work necessary to...
Date: 11/10/2010
VMMUpdate: Stay up to date!
CURRENT VERSION: 2.7, RELEASED 12/07/11 Windows and SCVMM SP1 updates included in scan “Are...
Date: 10/14/2010
SCVMM PowerShell Commands Cheat Sheet
PowerShell. You keep meaning to learn it. You just need a push. Maybe a CubeNote (Cheat Sheet) would...
Date: 10/05/2010