Attempting to login to the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) self-service portal may fail with the following error message in the browser: Could not load file or assembly ‘TraceWrapper, Version=1 .0.523.0, Culture=neutral, PubhcKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35’ or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load.. more »

Well – this is about the 225th post on the SCSM Engineering Team Blog! The blog has become one of the most read System Center blogs on TechNet. Thanks for supporting us! We have seen a lot of different solutions and tools here on the blog. We have some exciting new ones coming too! There are getting to be enough different solutions and tools now (e.. more »

Awhile back we announced the release of the SCOM MP for monitoring SCSM.  We didn’t mention that about the same time we also released the SCCM Configuration Pack for SCSM to help validate that you have the best practices configuration for SCSM running all the time. Here is the link to the download on the Download Center: .. more »

Client Installation and Assignment SuperFlow is a dynamic, interactive content model that provides you with detailed steps that you can use to prepare for and install the Configuration Manager 2007 client. This SuperFlow also provides you with the dataflow for background processes, additional resources related to client installation, and .. more »

Good morning everyone, our friends over on the ‘Inside OSD’ blog, the OS Deployment PM Team, recently published a blog about the enhancements to Bootable media coming in our next release.  With the continued interested in Windows deployment, bootable media is a key part of the process.  I wanted to get you the details on that blog post, and make y.. more »

Good morning everyone, the next event the Forefront and System Center teams are driving for (well not literally) is This is be far the largest event on our EMEA calendar, and the amount of prep time the team spends to get there is amazing. Keynote demos, breakout sessions, booth setup as well as the pile of announcements we will make there are .. more »

Hey everyone, you may have recently heard about the upcoming CEP for Opalis, from Adam at this .  We wanted to let you know that shortly we will be providing details of 2 additional CEPs for Forefront Endpoint protection and Configuration Manager v.Next.  The CEP program is designed as a regular cadence of webcasts, interviews, demonstrations and le.. more »

Jonathan Jordan, one of our very own System Center Virtual Machine Manager engineers, posted another great tip over on his blog about how to fix Error 2912 issues.  If you're running into this issue then he can help you get back on the right track: A common problem during data transfers, especially toward the end of P2V jobs, is Error 2912, with s.. more »

After importing the Operations Manager Integration Pack for Opalis and attempting to build a workflow using one of the related Objects included with the Integration Pack, the following exception may be raised: The System Center Operations Manager 2007 Operations Console must be installed on each computer where an Opalis Action Server or Opalis .. more »

Our pals over on the Nexus SC blog posted some great info on migrating users to Windows 7 while keeping the users previous Windows XP (or newer) environment available to them in the new OS.  It's like having your cake and eating it too: Hey everyone, if you are considering any type of client migration on you way to Windows 7 , and you have t.. more »

When attempting to install a Configuration Manager 2007 Management Point (MP) on Windows Server 2008, the install may fail with the following errors: MPMSI.LOG [13:52:07] Enabling BITS [13:52:08] @@ERR:25006 MSI (s) (DC!FC) [13:52:08:085]: Product: SMS Management Point -- Error 25006. Setup was unable to create the Internet .. more »

is excited to announce the release of the new client installation and assignment SuperFlow. This SuperFlow provides detailed steps on how to plan for, install, manage and monitor Configuration Manager 2007 clients. It also includes troubleshooting information and further resources that you can use to learn more about client installation and .. more »

Hey everyone, if you are considering any type of client migration on you way to Windows 7 , and you have thought about how to manage the end user experience through the process, you may want to check this out. P2V Migration for Software Assurance uses the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and Sysinternals Disk2VHD to convert a user's existing Windows XP .. more »

Adam Hall over on the has listed out the activities that will come in the upcoming SCSM Integration Pack in the 6.3 release of Opalis later this year. As you can see below we have provided some generic activities that allow you to manipulate any kind of object in the model such as Create Object, Create Relationship, Get Object, Get Relationship, .. more »

Hello my name is Kerim Hanif, I am a Program Manager in Virtual Machine Manager product responsible from Setup feature. As you may already know during VMM installation you can use an existing database or specify a remote database. Remote empty database scenario is very important for many of our customers who have all SQL servers in their .. more »

The SDK documentation platform used on MSDN apparently has a problem with hosting the SCOM and SCSM SDK content at the same time without overwriting each other so we’ve removed the SCSM SDK documentation from MSDN and made it available as a downloadable .chm. You can get the new .chm file from here: .. more »

Awhile back I made a about how you can send notifications to the Affected User when the analyst clicks on the Request Input from User task. Another common thing that people ask how to do is to send notifications to the affected user whenever the analyst updates the action log just so the affected user is kept in the loop. That requires creating a .. more »

We recently published a new System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 solution and thought you might appreciate a heads up.  The issue is one where on System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 or SCVMM 2008 R2, duplicate virtual machines (VMs) may appear in the SCVMM Administrator Console. In this scenario, one of the duplicate VMs has a M.. more »

We've already talked about this issue earlier but we now have an official Knowledge Base article on it so I wanted to send out a heads up.  Here are the details: Symptoms Migration of a virtual machine from one Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster to another fails. Both Failover Clusters are managed by System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2.. more »

The Service Manager team is very pleased to announce the availability of Thank you for your patience in awaiting this release. Below are details about the locations for download. Be sure to read the installation instructions and follow the steps provided for each. The final release of the Service Manager Authoring Tool 2010 is available in the .. more »