A System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Perspective on SMBv3 Files...
Chuck Timon | Senior Support Escalation Engineer | Microsoft CTS Management and Security DivisionOne of the more exciting features in Windows Server 2012 is the ability to support Hyper-V virtual...
View ArticleNetworking in Virtual Machine Manager Poster!
Who doesn’t love IT wallpaper? Network diagrams, data model diagrams, Active Directory replication topology diagrams, server room floorplans – they can turn a bland cubical or office wall into a...
View ArticleKB: How to install and configure a SQL Analysis Server using service...
System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2012) does not provide a way to install and configure a SQL Analysis server using service templates, however there’s still a way to accomplish this goal....
View ArticleKB: Deploying a VM with Virtual Machine Manager fails with Error (2912) -...
Just a quick note on a new Knowledge Base article we just published on VMM 2012. This article discusses an issue where deploying a virtual machine fails with error 2912 and “Forbidden (403)...
View ArticleUpdate Rollup 5 for System Center 2012–VMM 2012 Fixes
Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 is now available for download. It includes a variety of System Center fixes, including one for an issue in VMM 2012 where a host that is put into maintenance mode...
View ArticleVMM Refreshers: What’s new and what it means to you
Microsoft’s own Cheng Wei (Senior Program Manager) posted a great article on Refreshers in VMM 2012 SP1 back during the beta but everything he talks about is still relevant for the released version of...
View ArticleUpdate Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 Service Pack 1–App Controller updates
Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available and includes the following updates for App Controller:Issue 1: You cannot change the virtual machine network of...
View ArticleWindows Server/System Center MVP Speaker Series Starting This Week!...
This is a post that I just put up on the System Center blog, but I also wanted to post it here for better visibility because one of the topics this week is about automating Hyper-V administration using...
View ArticleUpdate on System Center 2012 SP1 Update Rollup 2 (UR2) for Virtual Machine...
Posted on behalf of Carmen SummersGreetings All,This is Carmen Summers and I lead System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management Sustained Engineering. I wanted to take the time to announce we are...
View ArticleLogical Networks (Part II) – How many logical networks do you really need?
In Part I, we looked at how Logical Networks fit into a Virtualized Network solution. In Part II, which is split over a number of different posts, we focus our attention on Logical Network design and...
View ArticleApplication Management Track on Building Clouds
Kurt Scherer from the VMM Team here, I wanted to bring attention to some awesome work around Service Templates in VMM. Over on the Building Clouds Blog, there have been a few recent posts that you...
View ArticleNew Book About Virtual Machine Manager!
One of our Microsoft MVPs, Alessandro Cardoso, wrote a great book on Virtual Machine Manager. Check it out! http://link.packtpub.com/POCsIQ
View ArticleI accidentally deleted the VMM self-signed certificate from the VMM server....
Vladimir Petrosyan| Support Escalation EngineerHey there again! This is Vladimir from the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) team and today I have a really quick tip for you all that I found out myself...
View ArticleLogical Networks (Part III) – Network Isolation
In this blog, we begin to introduce multi-tenancy and isolation into the Logical Network design process we discussed in Part II, reviewing each of the Logical Networks we identified to determine...
View ArticleNew Test Lab Guides for Virtual Machine Manager Now Available!
We wanted to let you know that two Test Lab Guides for VMM (System Center 2012 SP1) are now available. The first one walks you through installing a VMM server, using the evaluation VHD for VMM. The...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Manager Example Service Templates
Get your STEK (not steak)! The Service Template Example Kit is now available on the TechNet Gallery.This set of System Center 2012 SP1 – Virtual Machine Manager service templates provide the necessary...
View ArticleFree Whitepaper and Webinars on Virtual Networking from MVP Damian Flynn
One of our ISV partners, Savision, has been working with one of the System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management MVPs, Damian Flynn, to produce a whitepaper on virtual networking. Damian will also be...
View ArticleLogical Networks (Part IV) – PVLAN Isolation
In this blog, we continue our review of tenant isolation by looking at the implications of PVLANs on your logical network design – we will look at Network Virtualization and complete our review of...
View ArticleKB: VMs in Virtual Machine Manager report "Unsupported Cluster Configuration"...
We just published a new KB article that talks about an issue where In the Virtual Machine Manager admin console, VMs report Unsupported Cluster Configuration and the job view error is:Error 23772One or...
View ArticleVMM 2012 R2 SP1 - Hyper-V over SMB support in VMM – Troubleshooting 101...
Radhika Gupta | Software Development Engineer | MicrosoftIn Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V added the capability to store virtual machine (VM) resources on network shares hosted on NAS devices as an...
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