Supporting Virtual Machine Manager in the Enterprise

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2/7/2020

In our corporate deployment of Windows 10, we wanted to customize the Start Menu by removing some of...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 04/06/2016

KB: Recommended antivirus exclusions for System Center Virtual Machine Manager and managed hosts

If antivirus software is running on your Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager server...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 02/16/2016

How to install, remove or verify update rollups for VMM 2012 R2

If you have not yet seen this article, it is definitely worth checking out. A lot of good...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 07/09/2015

How to use Microsoft’s VMM User Voice to submit and vote on product improvement suggestions

A recent post from my friend Keiko from the VMM team. As David mentioned in his post about the New...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 03/24/2015

Free Microsoft System Center ebook: Deploying Hyper-V with Software-Defined Storage & Networking

We’re happy to announce the release of our newest free ebook, Microsoft System Center...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 03/24/2015

MVMC 3.0 Releases and adds support for P2V

Microsoft recently released the latest version of the MVMC tool, version 3.0 (MVMC 3.0). In this...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 03/24/2015

P2V fails with Error 2910 (0x80070005) Access Denied

Symptom When using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to perform a...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 11/12/2010

VMMSSP2.0 releases!

Moving to the cloud? Use this free toolkit to help customers build a private cloud infrastructure....

Author: mlbriggs Date: 11/09/2010

What is Hyper-V Dynamic Memory?

Are you ready for Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX? I'm sure that everyone has heard of these new...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 10/21/2010

How to change ownership of virtual machines via PowerShell with SCVMM 2008 R2

Just wanted to make everyone aware of a method to change the owner field of multiple VMs via...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 10/01/2010

Saving and re-applying the virtual machine metadata in VMM

Occasionally it is necessary to remove a host from management and then re-add it back in. This will...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 08/24/2010

End of Support Lifecycle for Windows XP SP2/2000

As already published in several blog postings all over the web since December 2009, still some...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 08/18/2010

How to remove a VM with the "missing" status from the VMM console

Occasionally, after a cluster failover, duplicate virtual machines may appear in the System Center...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 08/18/2010

SCVMM Comprehensive Updates

There are many updates available for SCVMM and the technologies it manages. Staying up to date can...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 04/30/2010

How SCVMM Determines CPU Average Displayed in the Admin Console

This article describes the performance metrics details that SCVMM collects and how to make sense of...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 04/07/2010

Host in Needs Attention state after installation of KB978560

Just a quick note to say that once the latest rollup for VMM R2 has been applied, you will need to...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 02/25/2010

How to move the SCVMM database to another server

You may find yourself in the position of needing to move the SCVMM database from one server to...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 01/29/2010

P2V conversion may fail with Error 3101 0x80041001

Summary When performing a physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion of a Windows 2000 SP4 source computer...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 01/14/2010

Unsupported Cluster Configuration - Virtual Networks

“Why is my VM displaying an ‘Unsupported Cluster Configuration’ status?” This is a question that I...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 12/29/2009

Domain functional level requirements for VMM

This is a question that I see from time to time either on forums or from customers. What is the...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 12/16/2009

What is CPU Type in SCVMM 2008 R2 VM Processor Hardware Profile?

Quite often we hear questions about the CPU type in SCVMM and what it really means. Well, one of my...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 12/14/2009

Mastering Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Book Available Now

Greetings, I am pleased to annouce the availability of Mastering Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2....

Author: mlbriggs Date: 12/11/2009

SCVMM service may consume high memory or CPU utilization

Symptoms In System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, if the Job Count exceeds the recommended...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 12/08/2009

What does 'over-committed' status really mean?

One of the top questions that I keep hearing from our customers is to explain the ‘over-committed’...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 12/02/2009

Issues adding a single node cluster into management by VMM

Recently we have seen an issue where a few customers have been experiencing errors and long delays...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 11/29/2009

VMMCA now updated for VMM R2!

I see many issues that could’ve been easily resolved if the VMMCA, or Virtual Machine Manager...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 09/17/2009

Testing BITS file transfer outside of VMM

As we all know VMM uses BITS to transfer files during various operations. However from time to time...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 07/30/2009

Issue adding a host to SCVMM when that host has more than 16 processors

It has come to our attention that trying to add a computer with more than 16 processors (for example...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 07/23/2009

Hotfixes for SCVMM

There are several publicly available hotfixes for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008....

Author: mlbriggs Date: 06/08/2009

How to troubleshoot Host status of 'Not Responding' in SCVMM 2008

This is one of the most often asked questions on our support forums. And it can also be rather...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 06/03/2009

Are All of My Servers Really Up to Date?

With a single command you can pull a list of all installed updates. Use this to compare patch levels...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 06/01/2009

Should VMM live inside a VM or on a physical server?

"Where should I install VMM, on a physical server or inside a VM and then add that same physical...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 05/22/2009

How to manually remove a host from the VMM database

The following steps outline the procedure to manually remove a host cluster from the VMM database....

Author: mlbriggs Date: 05/13/2009

KB 970925 - P2V fails with Error 2927 (0x8033801A) to a Clustered host

SUMMARY When performing a Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) conversion to a clustered host with System...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 05/08/2009

KB 970066 - How to collect SCVMM traces

Summary In order to diagnose a failure scenario in System Center Virtual Machine Manager, it is...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 05/08/2009

KB 971264 - VMM operation fails with error (2912) 0x80070490 due to a certificate issue

SUMMARY When using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to perform any action involving file...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 05/08/2009

KB 970921 - How to add NIC drivers for Offline P2V in SCVMM

One of the questions that we often receive is how to perform a P2V on an older Windows 2000 server....

Author: mlbriggs Date: 05/08/2009

SCVMM information to gather

So, you've ran across an issue with SCVMM that you're going to need some help with. Great, that's...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 04/24/2009

Hotfix Rollup Released for SCVMM - KB961983

Released April 14, 2009, a number of Hotfixes have been rolled up into a single download. I strongly...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 04/24/2009

How to capture a Dbgview trace from Windows Core

Occasionally I find it necessary to capture a Dbgview trace from a Core installation of Windows...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 02/06/2009

SCVMM Releases Management Pack Update

Brief Description The System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 Management Pack for System...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 01/29/2009

Host: Needs Attention

Since we have so many people either trying out SCVMM for the first time or new to the product, I...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 01/29/2009

WinRM Troubleshooting

Jonathon Jordan has written a great article on troubleshooting WinRM on his blog site. SCVMM relies...

Author: mlbriggs Date: 01/22/2009

KB969269 - VMM Admin Console crashes with errors 19999 and 1 as logged in VM Manager

Anyone ever had problems with the admin console crashing? How about the crash happening each time...