Supporting Virtual Machine Manager in the Enterprise
Customizing the Windows 10 Start menu via SCCM
In our corporate deployment of Windows 10, we wanted to customize the Start Menu by removing some of...
Date: 04/06/2016
KB: Recommended antivirus exclusions for System Center Virtual Machine Manager and managed hosts
If antivirus software is running on your Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager server...
Date: 02/16/2016
How to install, remove or verify update rollups for VMM 2012 R2
If you have not yet seen this article, it is definitely worth checking out. A lot of good...
Date: 07/09/2015
How to use Microsoft’s VMM User Voice to submit and vote on product improvement suggestions
A recent post from my friend Keiko from the VMM team. As David mentioned in his post about the New...
Date: 03/24/2015
Free Microsoft System Center ebook: Deploying Hyper-V with Software-Defined Storage & Networking
We’re happy to announce the release of our newest free ebook, Microsoft System Center...
Date: 03/24/2015
MVMC 3.0 Releases and adds support for P2V
Microsoft recently released the latest version of the MVMC tool, version 3.0 (MVMC 3.0). In this...
Date: 03/24/2015
P2V fails with Error 2910 (0x80070005) Access Denied
Symptom When using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to perform a...
Date: 11/12/2010
VMMSSP2.0 releases!
Moving to the cloud? Use this free toolkit to help customers build a private cloud infrastructure....
Date: 11/09/2010
What is Hyper-V Dynamic Memory?
Are you ready for Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX? I'm sure that everyone has heard of these new...
Date: 10/21/2010
How to change ownership of virtual machines via PowerShell with SCVMM 2008 R2
Just wanted to make everyone aware of a method to change the owner field of multiple VMs via...
Date: 10/01/2010
Saving and re-applying the virtual machine metadata in VMM
Occasionally it is necessary to remove a host from management and then re-add it back in. This will...
Date: 08/24/2010
End of Support Lifecycle for Windows XP SP2/2000
As already published in several blog postings all over the web since December 2009, still some...
Date: 08/18/2010
How to remove a VM with the "missing" status from the VMM console
Occasionally, after a cluster failover, duplicate virtual machines may appear in the System Center...
Date: 08/18/2010
SCVMM Comprehensive Updates
There are many updates available for SCVMM and the technologies it manages. Staying up to date can...
Date: 04/30/2010
How SCVMM Determines CPU Average Displayed in the Admin Console
This article describes the performance metrics details that SCVMM collects and how to make sense of...
Date: 04/07/2010
Host in Needs Attention state after installation of KB978560
Just a quick note to say that once the latest rollup for VMM R2 has been applied, you will need to...
Date: 02/25/2010
How to move the SCVMM database to another server
You may find yourself in the position of needing to move the SCVMM database from one server to...
Date: 01/29/2010
P2V conversion may fail with Error 3101 0x80041001
Summary When performing a physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion of a Windows 2000 SP4 source computer...
Date: 01/14/2010
Unsupported Cluster Configuration - Virtual Networks
“Why is my VM displaying an ‘Unsupported Cluster Configuration’ status?” This is a question that I...
Date: 12/29/2009
Domain functional level requirements for VMM
This is a question that I see from time to time either on forums or from customers. What is the...
Date: 12/16/2009
What is CPU Type in SCVMM 2008 R2 VM Processor Hardware Profile?
Quite often we hear questions about the CPU type in SCVMM and what it really means. Well, one of my...
Date: 12/14/2009
Mastering Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Book Available Now
Greetings, I am pleased to annouce the availability of Mastering Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2....
Date: 12/11/2009
SCVMM service may consume high memory or CPU utilization
Symptoms In System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, if the Job Count exceeds the recommended...
Date: 12/08/2009
What does 'over-committed' status really mean?
One of the top questions that I keep hearing from our customers is to explain the ‘over-committed’...
Date: 12/02/2009
Issues adding a single node cluster into management by VMM
Recently we have seen an issue where a few customers have been experiencing errors and long delays...
Date: 11/29/2009
VMMCA now updated for VMM R2!
I see many issues that could’ve been easily resolved if the VMMCA, or Virtual Machine Manager...
Date: 09/17/2009
Testing BITS file transfer outside of VMM
As we all know VMM uses BITS to transfer files during various operations. However from time to time...
Date: 07/30/2009
Issue adding a host to SCVMM when that host has more than 16 processors
It has come to our attention that trying to add a computer with more than 16 processors (for example...
Date: 07/23/2009
Hotfixes for SCVMM
There are several publicly available hotfixes for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008....
Date: 06/08/2009
How to troubleshoot Host status of 'Not Responding' in SCVMM 2008
This is one of the most often asked questions on our support forums. And it can also be rather...
Date: 06/03/2009
Are All of My Servers Really Up to Date?
With a single command you can pull a list of all installed updates. Use this to compare patch levels...
Date: 06/01/2009
Should VMM live inside a VM or on a physical server?
"Where should I install VMM, on a physical server or inside a VM and then add that same physical...
Date: 05/22/2009
How to manually remove a host from the VMM database
The following steps outline the procedure to manually remove a host cluster from the VMM database....
Date: 05/13/2009
KB 970925 - P2V fails with Error 2927 (0x8033801A) to a Clustered host
SUMMARY When performing a Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) conversion to a clustered host with System...
Date: 05/08/2009
KB 970066 - How to collect SCVMM traces
Summary In order to diagnose a failure scenario in System Center Virtual Machine Manager, it is...
Date: 05/08/2009
KB 971264 - VMM operation fails with error (2912) 0x80070490 due to a certificate issue
SUMMARY When using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to perform any action involving file...
Date: 05/08/2009
KB 970921 - How to add NIC drivers for Offline P2V in SCVMM
One of the questions that we often receive is how to perform a P2V on an older Windows 2000 server....
Date: 05/08/2009
SCVMM information to gather
So, you've ran across an issue with SCVMM that you're going to need some help with. Great, that's...
Date: 04/24/2009
Hotfix Rollup Released for SCVMM - KB961983
Released April 14, 2009, a number of Hotfixes have been rolled up into a single download. I strongly...
Date: 04/24/2009
How to capture a Dbgview trace from Windows Core
Occasionally I find it necessary to capture a Dbgview trace from a Core installation of Windows...
Date: 02/06/2009
SCVMM Releases Management Pack Update
Brief Description The System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 Management Pack for System...
Date: 01/29/2009
Host: Needs Attention
Since we have so many people either trying out SCVMM for the first time or new to the product, I...
Date: 01/29/2009
WinRM Troubleshooting
Jonathon Jordan has written a great article on troubleshooting WinRM on his blog site. SCVMM relies...
Date: 01/22/2009
KB969269 - VMM Admin Console crashes with errors 19999 and 1 as logged in VM Manager
Anyone ever had problems with the admin console crashing? How about the crash happening each time...
Date: 01/21/2009
P2V Conversion and the Source Computer
I was recently working on an issue where after performing a successful P2V conversion, we would...
Date: 01/21/2009
SCVMM 2008 Installation Step-by-Step
The uploaded file contains step-by-step instructions on how to install SCVMM 2008 including the...
Date: 01/21/2009
Installation Error - ComputerNameInvalid (403)
Issue Unable to complete VMM2008 installation Error message “Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine...
Date: 01/21/2009
VMSetupConfigurationError (257)
Issue The following error message may be displayed during installation of System Center Virtual...
Date: 01/21/2009