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Creating a Template and Successfully Deploying New VMs in System Center...
Our very own Jonathan Jordan just posted some great info on creating templates for use with VM creation: Templates save time! Templates make multiple custom deployments easy! Learn to use Templates!...
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Announcing the release of the Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (VMST) 3.0
This release of the Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (VMST) 3.0 completely replaces the Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool version 2.1. VMST 3.0 helps customers reduce IT costs by making it easier to...
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New KB: Using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 to delete a VM on...
Just a quick FYI on a new SCVMM 2008 R2 Knowledge Base article we published today: ===== Symptoms You are using Hyper-V and a Failover Cluster and your Virtual Machines (VMs) share the same Clustered...
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How to change ownership of virtual machines via PowerShell with SCVMM 2008 R2
Our very own Mike Briggs just posted some great info on how to change ownership of virtual machines (VMs) via PowerShell with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2: Just wanted to make everyone...
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SCVMM PowerShell Commands Cheat Sheet
Our very own Jonathan Jordan has another great post on his blog about PowerShell and SCVMM. If you happened to miss it I have an intro and link below: PowerShell. You keep meaning to learn it. You...
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Announcing Top Solutions RSS Feeds: Automatically connecting you with solutions
The Top Solutions RSS feeds pair the latest hot customer issues with the best Microsoft solution content, all delivered right to your desktop. The feeds will help keep you ahead of the curve by...
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VMMUpdate: The easy way to keep your Hosts and SCVMM Server up to date
Our very own Jonathan Jordan posted a great script that makes the job of keeping your Hosts and SCVMM Servers up to date simple. I pasted a short intro to his post below: As a Microsoft Support...
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The System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 is now...
The Microsoft System Center team is pleased to announce the launch of System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 (SSP). Download the SSP Now! The System Center Virtual Machine...
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New KB: P2V conversion fails with error 3110 in System Center Virtual Machine...
When using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM 2008), a Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion of a Windows Server 2003 system fails due to the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) on the P2V...
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Common SCVMM P2V Conversion Failures Explained
Our very own Jonathan Jordan just posted a great article describing a System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 support incident he worked recently where a small percentage of machines were failing...
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How to determine if a cluster is over-committed in System Center Virtual...
Just a heads up on a new KB article we published on how to determine if a cluster is over-committed in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. If you do any kind of admin work with System Center...
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New KB: Add Host or other action fails with (2916) 0x80338126 in System...
Symptoms Adding a Host to System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM 2008) fails with a variation of Error (2916): Error (2916) VMM is unable to complete the request. The connection to the agent...
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SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 RC Available For Download
With the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 RC now available it wouldn’t be hard to guess that an update to SCVMM 2008 R2 wasn’t far behind... well here it is! We’re pleased to announce SCVMM 2008 R2 Service...
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A System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 P2V conversion fails with errors...
Here's another new System Center Virtual Machine Manager Knowledge Base article we just published this morning. If you're trying to do a P2V and it's failing out with 2910, 458 or 3142 errors then...
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A host refresh in the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008...
Here's another KB we published this morning. This one talks about an issue where doing a host refresh in the SCVMM 2008 admin console generates error 2912 with 0x800700A4: ===== Symptoms In the System...
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SC VMM 2008 R2 SP1 Introduction
The VMM 2008 R2 SP1 RC has been available for about a week now and hopefully you’ve had a chance to download it. If not, jump over to Microsoft Connect and search for SCVMM and get your download...
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VMMTrace: Simplified SCVMM Tracing
When SCVMM is not ‘cooperating’ and no amount of digging through event logs, support articles, and forums is helping… it’s time for a trace. Here's how to do just that:...
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FYI: Integration of TechNet Blog User Account with TechNet Forums Profile
For those of you who sign-in to comment on the TechNet Blogs, there is a change coming on January 27th 1:00 pm (PST) regarding user accounts and profiles. Please click here to read about this change....
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The new "Dynamic Memory" feature of Hyper-V explained
Hyper-V Question of the Day: Q: Can you tell me more about Dynamic Memory, such as: What is Dynamic Memory? What problems does it solve? Is Dynamic Memory good for Servers and VDI? How does it compare...
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Tuning SCVMM for VDI deployments
Our very own Vishwa Kumbalimutt posted a great article on using SCVMM for VDI deployments. If this isn’t something you’ve considered before, or if it is and you’re planning on doing it soon, you’ll...
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