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VMM SCO SMA WAP - Solutions and Guidance

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

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