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VMM SCO SMA WAP - Solutions and Guidance

You may run into difficulty with Linux VMs created from templates when using Windows Azure Pack...

Date: 10/31/2014

There are tons of fixes for System Center 2012 R2 in the latest Update Rollup (UR). Follow the link...

Date: 10/29/2014

The latest version of MVMC has been released. P2V of Windows systems is now included. From the site:...

Date: 10/16/2014

This is an unusual post for this blog, but I found the process of dual booting my Surface 3 into...

Date: 10/16/2014

Current Version: v1.4 Now traces Service Provider Foundation (SPF)! WAPTrace is a PowerShell script...

Date: 10/11/2014

How do you trace WAP (or SPF)? This paper will walk you through the steps. An excerpt from the...

Date: 10/02/2014

This post covers three papers I have written describing how to set up Windows Azure Pack in a...

Date: 10/02/2014

Sometimes you need to run a resource intensive PowerShell command using the ‘Run .Net Script’...

Date: 08/29/2014

A good friend of mine, DeWitt, has put together a list of WAP versions for reference. He also found...

Date: 08/22/2014

Just a heads up that two UR3’s for System Center products have been released. There are many fixes...

Date: 08/11/2014

I’ve run into this issue a few times, and finding the resolution was not easy. Anyone deploying VMs...

Date: 07/01/2014

I have had a few customers looking for a solution to SCOM maintenance mode using Orchestrator. Well,...

Date: 06/13/2014

The latest Update Rollup has been released for System Center. It contains fixes for many System...

Date: 06/13/2014

Script Browser“A world of scripts at your fingertips.” That’s the apt heading for a new add-in for...

Date: 06/13/2014

A whole new set of tools for vSphere has been released for Orchestrator 2012 R2. Over 30 Activities...

Date: 06/13/2014

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

Another quarterly Update Rollup (UR) has been released for System Center 2012 SP1 and SC 2012 R2. In...

Date: 01/29/2014

Recently I have seen a rush of VMM cases that involve moving a VM through migration, or otherwise...

Date: 01/24/2014

There are a number of ways to manipulate data using the Orchestrator built-in Activities. Text...

Date: 01/17/2014

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

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

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

A great free book has been released for App Controller 2012 R2. This is not a product generally...

Date: 12/04/2013

As a support engineer at Microsoft, I see almost daily some issues with Service Principle Names...

Date: 11/25/2013

Two new updates have been released for System Center 2012 and for System Center 2012 SP1. There are...

Date: 11/07/2013

A great new book has been released from Microsoft Press that covers Orchestrator and the creation of...

Date: 10/09/2013

Supports:VMM 2012 SP1 VMM 2012 R2 VMM Repro captures detailed information on systems involved in a...

Date: 10/07/2013

What is SCOtrace? SCOtrace increases the Orchestrator log level, provides time for you to reproduce...

Date: 06/14/2013

This blog focuses on VMM and Orchestrator, and for VMM alone there are 20 fixes in this update. Many...

Date: 05/16/2013

If you've opened the VMM 2012 SP1 PowerShell console and performed a command to get help on cmdlets,...

Date: 04/05/2013

There is a new post on the Download Center of networking in Virtual Machine Manager. It’s a bit...

Date: 04/02/2013

What is Microsoft Orchestrator?! This blog now covers SC VMM as well as Orchestrator System Center...

Date: 02/16/2013

Sometimes a Host cannot be added to VMM, especially when there is a cluster involved. The steps...

Date: 02/15/2013

Here’s one that might stump you occasionally. You open the Admin Console and instead of popping open...

Date: 02/15/2013

I just resolved a case where remediation as listed in the article below alone did not work, but...

Date: 02/15/2013

Two official technical documents on how to perform any action in the GUI, and all VMM Cmdlets are...

Date: 04/10/2012

Over two years ago I created a cheat sheet, or cube note, for SCVMM 2008 R2. That post is still...

Date: 04/04/2012

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

This is an issue we in support have faced for years. The information provided by ‘Warning (13257)’...

Date: 11/30/2011

Some new x64 systems boot from a GPT disk that contains an EFI or UEFI boot partition with an EFI...

Date: 10/27/2011

So you perform a successful P2V using SCVMM. Or perhaps you use it’s cousin, ‘Disk2VHD’ from...

Date: 10/04/2011

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

Another great write-up by a good friend and colleague of mine. Dave works at Microsoft, but on...

Date: 04/30/2011

Description of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 hotfix rollup package: February 8,...

Date: 02/08/2011

BrianMadden.com recently posted a great article on the upcoming feature of Dynamic Memory for...

Date: 01/28/2011

Now Supports SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 and VMM 2012! WHAT IS VMMTRACE? VMMTrace and VMMTraceALT capture...

Date: 01/07/2011

            Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion is one of...

Date: 11/14/2010

We know that SCVMM can convert physical machines into virtual machines with all work necessary to...

Date: 11/10/2010

CURRENT VERSION: 2.7, RELEASED 12/07/11 Windows and SCVMM SP1 updates included in scan “Are...

Date: 10/14/2010

PowerShell. You keep meaning to learn it. You just need a push. Maybe a CubeNote (Cheat Sheet) would...

Date: 10/05/2010

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