Virtualizing Your Data Center with Hyper-V and System Center
Free online event with live Q&A: http://aka.ms/virtDC Wednesday, February 19th from 9am – 5pm PST If you’re new to virtualization, or if you have some experience and want to see the latest R2...
View ArticleSCOM Alert: WinRM is not functional or not the right version
On System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager (SCOM) (with UR2) starting to appear Critical Alerts coming from System Center Advisor (SCA) saying that my System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager...
View ArticleSoftware-Defined Networking with Windows Server and System Center Jump Start
Free online event with live QA with the WAP team: http://aka.ms/WAPIaaS Two half-days – Wednesday July 16th & Thursday July 17th – 9am-1pm PST IT Pros, you know that enterprises desire the...
View ArticleFixing Network Compliance in VMM
Using VMM 2012 R2 to validate the Network Compliance status, and fix eventual Non compliant when the physical adapter is no longer in use. Solution Using Network Virtualization in Hyper-V helps the...
View ArticleHow to deploy WSUS to support VMM Update Server
How to implement the WSUS role on Windows Server 2012 R2, using this feature the administrator can add the server as Update Servers in VMM 2012 R2. The WSUS role is key for the VMM strategy where all...
View ArticleDPM 2012 R2–ID 30146 unkown error protecting Exchange
How to solve the ID 30146 Details: Unknown error (0xc0000135) error when protecting Exchange or SharePoing when using DPM Server 2012 or 2012 R2. Solution In this Tutorial scenario the server is...
View ArticleHow to create a manual copy of the DPM database
DPM is a great product to protect Microsoft workloads, and now that we can use Azure as long-term repository, to protect the vast majority of workloads (such as Exchange for example). There is one...
View ArticleUsing DPM to create a Recovery Point in Microsoft Azure
Using DPM (Data Protection Manager) an administrator is able to create a Recovery Point directly on Backup Vault/Microsoft Azure, and that is going to be the process that we are going over in this...
View ArticleExchange Server 2013 offsite protection using DPM and Microsoft Azure (Part 3)
Hello folks, My third article at MSExchange.org going over the offsite protection of Exchange Server 2013 using DPM and Microsoft Azure is out. Check it out at:...
View ArticleHow to update the VMM agent
After updating the VMM Server, the administrator has an additional task to perform which is the VMM agent update on all hosts managed by the VMM. Solution The process is simple, after the VMM Server...
View ArticleSystem Center 2012 R2–Update Rollup 8
Microsoft released last week the Update Rollup 8 for the System Center 2012 R2 family. Here is a list of all products and their corresponding KB where the administrator can find the release notes...
View ArticleVirtual Switches improvements in VMM 2016 TP4
Administrator that already take advantage of VMM 2012 R2 to virtualize networks and reduce operational cost managing servers will love this new feature in System Center VMM (Virtual Machine Manager)...
View ArticleDeploying VMM 2016 Technical Preview 4 (TP4)
System Center 2016 VMM 2016 TP4 was recently released by Microsoft, and on this Tutorial we are going over the process to install it on a lab environment. Solution Before starting the installation...
View ArticleSystem Center Configuration Manager (version 1511) is generally available
Hello folks, System Center team has just announced the general availability of System Center Configuration Manager (version 1511) . Here is the download link:...
View ArticleNetwork Virtualization and DNS registration using PowerShell
Using a simple PowerShell cmdlet to remove the DNS registration on Virtual NIC (vNICs) created by Virtual Machine Manager. Solution This Tutorial was created to remove the DNS Registration of Virtual...
View ArticleManaging features at Network Adapter level using PowerShell
Using PowerShell to manage features at network adapter level, the tasks that we are going over on this Tutorial may be required when managing a larger number of servers, using additional scripts to...
View ArticleVMM Error 27235 – An unknown error occurred while executing the PowerShell...
How to solve the event ID 27235 on VMM (System Center Virtual Machine Manager). Solution In my customer the environment was working just fine, and on a Wednesday morning the following error started to...
View ArticleSystem Center Configuration Manager – Collocated SQL Server installation
How to configure configure a SQL Server 2014 SP1 to support a SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager) collocate deployment. There are several strategies around SQL Server deployment for System...
View ArticleHow to delete a VM that is being protected by Azure Site Recovery
In this Tutorial we are going over the process to force a deletion of a VM in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 when it has been protected with Azure Site Recovery protection. Most of the...
View ArticleVMs not available in Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)
In this Tutorial we are going to cover Introduction Solution The issue was that all VMs running on a Windows Server 2012 R2 server was showing like the image below. Looking at the logs on the VMM...
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