A quick note on SCE 2010 support for Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE 2010) is certified to work with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. 

Important Note – SCE2010 will not be enhanced to support configuration of Dynamic Memory and Remote FX (new features that were added in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1) on virtual machines, although SCE itself can run fine in a VM configured with dynamic memory.  Therefore, if you want to use dynamic memory on a VM you must configure it directly from the Hyper-V Manager console.  SCE can monitor and manage such VMs configured to use dynamic memory without problems. You simply won’t be able to make any changes in dynamic memory/Remote FX using the SCE console.

J.C. Hornbeck | System Center Knowledge Engineer

The App-V Team blog: https://blogs.technet.com/appv/
The WSUS Support Team blog: https://blogs.technet.com/sus/
The SCMDM Support Team blog: https://blogs.technet.com/mdm/
The ConfigMgr Support Team blog: https://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/
The SCOM 2007 Support Team blog: https://blogs.technet.com/operationsmgr/
The SCVMM Team blog: https://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/
The MED-V Team blog: https://blogs.technet.com/medv/
The DPM Team blog: https://blogs.technet.com/dpm/
The OOB Support Team blog: https://blogs.technet.com/oob/
The Opalis Team blog: https://blogs.technet.com/opalis
The Service Manager Team blog: http: https://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager
The AVIcode Team blog: http: https://blogs.technet.com/b/avicode
The System Center Essentials Team blog: http: https://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenteressentials
The Server App-V Team blog: http: https://blogs.technet.com/b/serverappv

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 21, 2011
  Thanks for the update... good news and bad news mixed though. I can't help concluding that SCE 2010 is the stepchild in the System Center family, and that's a shame.

• Anonymous
  May 16, 2011
  Speedbird, this continues the tradition set by SCE 2007, sadly.