An update has been released to resolve issues where System Center Essentials updating Windows 7 SP1- based computers with locally published content may fail with error 0x80070570. Please refer to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2607070 for more details and download. This hotfix is expected to be installed individually on all Win7 SP1 machines which are managed by SCE server. However, you…
NOW LIVE: The Microsoft TechNet Gallery
As many of you probably already know, for a long time the Script Repository (a special-purpose gallery) has been an engine of great content and community engagement on TechNet. Well starting last week it was upgraded significantly and launched as the new TechNet Gallery, supporting not only just scripts but many other technical resources for…
The System Center Blog Aggregator app is now available on Android
A few weeks back I announced the System Center Blog Aggregator app for Windows Phone 7 and today I wanted to let you know that it was now available for all you Android users out there as well. I won’t go into all the details as you can read that at the link above, but…
Free 3 day Office 365 Jump Start Training Event
I know this isn’t System Center Essentials specific but I thought you might want to know about a great training opportunity we have coming up at the end of the month for Office 365. On May 24th through 26th Microsoft Learning is hosting a free 3-day Jump Start tailored for IT Pros interested in learning…
A quick note on SCE 2010 support for Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE 2010) is certified to work with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Important Note – SCE2010 will not be enhanced to support configuration of Dynamic Memory and Remote FX (new features that were added in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1) on virtual machines, although SCE itself can run fine in a VM configured…
SCE Quick Fix: Designating a host that is in workgroup fails with error 2912 in System Center Essentials
This is a repost of an article written by Milan Jajal that I put over on the Configuration Manager Support Team blog so if you follow that one you’ve probably already seen it. Back when I originally posted this I wasn’t part of the SCE blog family but now that I am I thought it…
SCE 2007 Quick Fix: The admin console crashes when selecting a computer in the computers list
I ran into an interesting issue the other day and thought I would post it here in case anyone else happened to see it. The issue is that if you use System Center Essentials 2007 (SCE) to manage computers in your environment, when you select a specific computer in the admin console it will try…
How to install SCE 2007 SP1 which is blocked with expired WSUS 3.0 SP1 warning
The installation of SCE 2007 SP1 blocks with a warning “WSUS Valid Date”. This happens because the WSUS 3.0 SP1 image present on the SCE 2007 SP1 DVD is expired in October 2010. This blog lists the steps to download and install WSUS 3.0 SP2 to unblock and complete the installation of SCE 2007 SP1….
How to use the Fix Computer Group tool to rebuild computer groups deleted from Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
When a computer group is created in Essentials 2010 using Create a Computer Group in the Computers space, a corresponding group is created in the WSUS database. This can be seen in the WSUS console. Figure 1. Computer groups in the WSUS console. Deleting these computer groups from the WSUS console will result in the…
How to use the Maintenance Mode Tool to schedule weekly maintenance modes for computer groups
When a monitored object, such as a computer or distributed application, is taken offline for maintenance, Essentials 2010 detects that no agent heartbeat is being received and, as a result, might generate numerous alerts and notifications. To prevent alerts and notifications, monitored objects can be put into maintenance mode. When a monitored object is in maintenance…