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KB: "No such file or directory" error when you try to install a Unix agent
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Planes, trucks and frozen custard - The Hyper-V Team at VMworld 2013
By now, readers of this blog may have already heard of our presence at VMworld in San Francisco this week. As you can imagine, planning a “guerrilla” activity is never a trivial task, and making it happen requires a lot of hard work behind the scenes. Therefore, I was feeling pretty pleased with what our team had managed to organize as I boarded my flight for San Francisco early Monday morning. Add to this the fact that I was visiting the Bay Area, a place that I called home for seven memorable years – I was really looking forward to the trip.
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Get the “Scoop” on Hyper-V during VMworld
VMworld kicks off this week in San Francisco. I happen to know a few loyal VMware IT professionals, and the event is clearly a very exciting time of the year for them - an opportunity to meet other fellow enthusiasts, as well as to learn more about new releases from VMware. But I wonder if they would ever expect to learn more about Microsoft technologies such as Hyper-V and System Center while attending the event. Well, that’s what we’re going to make happen this year, albeit a little creatively.
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How to Troubleshoot UNIX/Linux Agent Discovery in System Center 2012 Operations Manager
If you ever have any trouble with UNIX/Linux Agent Discovery in System Center 2012 Operations Manager (OpsMgr 2012) then the article below is a great place to start. And, since it’s on our TechNet Wiki site, if you have any tips you’d like to share you’re encouraged to do so by editing the article directly.
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Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager Service Pack 1 has been re-released
The System Center 2012 SP1 UR3 package for DPM was re-released on 8-20-13 and fixes the two issues mentioned in our original article here:
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How to Troubleshoot the Installation of the System Center Operations Manager Agent
The System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) agent can be deployed to Windows computers either via "remote push" from a management server or it can be manually installed on a target computer using MomAgent.msi. If the installation of the agent is not successful, there are a number of troubleshooting steps that can be used depending on where the error is occurring and how the agent will be deployed. For information on troubleshooting OpsMgr 2007 and OpsMgr 2012 agent setup please see the following:
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Optimizations in protecting SQL databases with high churn by DPM
This blog discusses solutions for the two issues,which might be encountered while protecting high churn databases using DPM.
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How to troubleshoot blank reports in OpsMgr 2007 and OpsMgr 2012
Many calls that we get here on the Operations Manager support team involve blank or empty reports so I wanted to be sure everyone knew about the KB article we have that will help walk you through troubleshooting some of the more common causes of reporting issues. If you ever have any trouble with OpsMgr reporting then this is a great place to start. If you have any suggestions on how we can improve this article please let us know.
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Reversal of fortune: Sirefef’s registry illusion
I have mentioned in a previous blog that the use of the right-to-left-override (U+202E) unicode character is nothing new. This blog also went on to show the various file name tricks used by malware.
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August 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast, Q&A, and Slide Deck
Today we’re publishing the August 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We fielded 13 questions on various topics during the webcast, with specific bulletin questions focusing primarily on Exchange Server (MS13-061) and Windows Kernel (MS13-063). There were 3 additional questions during the webcast that we were unable to answer on air, and we have also answered those on the Q&A page.
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Monitoring your private cloud using System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager and Operations Manager
If you haven’t seen the Cloud OS video series on our Building Clouds site, it’s a series of videos that helps you understand the technology, deployment, and management of the Cloud OS by leveraging Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1. Each video is less than 10 minutes and covers a specific topic so that you can target your learning easily or quickly refresh your knowledge on how to perform a specific action.
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KB: You cannot access the System Center 2012 Operations Manager AppAdvisor website when you use Kerberos authentication
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Support Tip: App-V v5 integration in Configuration Manager and PowerShell Policy
~ Lars Iwer | Consultant II
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Check out the Operations Manager 2012 Learning Roadmap
There’s a new app available that you’ll want to check out if you’re needing a quick and easy way to get started learning the basics of System Center 2012 Operations Manager. It’s called the Operations Manager 2012 Learning Roadmap and is available for Windows 8 (x86, x64, ARM) based systems. A colleague of mine recently turned me on to this app and while it is not officially associated with Microsoft in any way I thought it might have some value for any of you who are new to the product.
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Available October 18th
Today we are pleased to make several important announcements. We are extremely excited that on October 18th, eligible customers will able to download Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, and use the latest update to Windows Intune. Also on October 18th, Windows 8.1 will be available to consumers and businesses worldwide. To find out more about this announcement, see Microsoft Vice President, Brad Anderson's blog, "Mark Your Calendars for October 18th, the R2 Wave is Coming". While you’re there, be sure to also check out his special series on “What’s New in 2012 R2” for a deep dive on all the new innovations to expect in the R2 wave of products.
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Support Tip: The Remove-SCOMDisabledClassInstance cmdlet times out in OpsMgr 2012
~ R.B.Ganesh | Senior Support Escalation Engineer
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Support Tip: Mounted volumes within mounted volumes cannot be backed up in DPM
~ Jitendra Mishra | Support Engineer
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Leaving Las Vegas and the August 2013 security updates
Two weeks ago I, along with 7,500 of my closest friends, attended the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, NV. I can’t speak for everyone, but I certainly had a great – if not exhausting – time while there. While there were a lot of great talks, a personal highlight for me each year is the chance to meet and talk with the various people who attend. It was even more fun for me this time around, as we had some great new programs here at Microsoft to talk about.
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The original AppCompat (solving a 20-year-old mystery for me)
DOS v5.0, released in 1991, introduced the concept of DOS loading "high". That is, into the high memory area - that special 64kb area at the top of the first megabyte of memory.
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Hotfix Package 1 for Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0 Server Service Pack 1 now available
Hotfix Package 1 for Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0 Server Service Pack 1 is now available. You can find out what’s been fixed and how to download HP1 for App-V 5.0 SP1 at the following location:
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Advance Notification Service for August 2013 Security Bulletin Release
Today we’re providing advance notification for the release of eight bulletins, three Critical and five Important, for August 2013. The Critical updates address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer and Exchange.
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How to configure AEM to use SSL in Operations Manager 2007 and 2012
~ R.B.Ganesh | Senior Support Escalation Engineer
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KB: Applications that are sequenced through the App-V 5.0 SP1 sequencer may not be installed correctly
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New Windows Server 2012 R2 Innovations – Download Now
Windows Server 2012 R2 is in preview right now and ready for your evaluation. We have been rolling out detailed information on our Cloud OS vision though Brad Anderson’s What’s New in 2012 R2 blog series. That will continue but we thought you would like a short consolidated list for consideration. Here are some key innovations in Windows Server 2012 R2.
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Cloud scale multitenant networking stack
Cloud scale architectures require highly scalable core infrastructure services. For instance, gateways that provide Network Address Translation or Site-to-Site VPN capabilities for the datacenter must be able to support a large number of tenants. This...(read more)
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Autoruns v11.70, Bginfo v4.20, Disk2vhd v1.64, Process Explorer v15.40
Autoruns v11.70: This release of Autoruns, a powerful utility for scanning and disabling autostart code, adds a new option to have it show only per-user locations, something that is useful when analyzing the autostarts of different accounts than the one that
Autoruns is running under.