Hotfixes for SCVMM

There are several publicly available hotfixes for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. Obviously they should be installed on the VMM server, but how about the Host computers? Are they applicable there as well? These are questions that I hear quite often so I wanted to take a few minutes and list the currently available hotfixes for VMM and discuss where they should be applied.

Most VMM related hotfixes can be found in just two articles:

· 962941 Recommended hotfixes for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008

· 961983 Description of the hotfix rollup package for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008: April 14th, 2009

The fixes outlined in 962941 need to be installed on both your VMM server and Hyper-v Host computers.

961983 is a rollup package released on April 14, 2009 as an available update on Windows Updates. So hopefully it has already been applied to your VMM server. However, if you're VMM server does not regularly check Windows Updates directly or for some reason does not have that particular patch installed, you can download it from here.

To apply the path manually, run the following command line: "msiexec /p vmmServer64update.msp BOOTSTRAPPED=1"