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Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager #scvmm #winserv #azure #cloud

There is a UR 2 Released for The System Center 2012 Stack. And as in UR1 read the Installation instructions not only install the update but also apply the SQL script to the Database.  There is a huge list of fixed in SCVMM but also for the other System center product a lots of fixes and even if you use the Azure Pack you will get a nice list with updates.

The Script can be found here : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2932926 

 

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Important After you install the update package, you must apply the following SQL script on your Virtual Machine Manager Microsoft SQL Server database for Update Rollup 2 to function correctly.

Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager resolves the following issues:

  • Files cannot be found on a network-attached storage device that uses NetApp storage and Server Message Block version 3 (SMBv3) protocol.
  • After an account’s password is changed, the Scale-Out File Server provider goes into a "not responding" state.
  • VMM wipes the System Access Control List (SACL) configurations on ports.
  • When an uplink profile’s name contains the "or" string, VMM console cannot show its details when it adds the uplink profile to a logical switch.
  • Dynamic disks cannot be used as pass-through disks.
  • When you create a standard virtual switch on a host without selecting the Allow management operating system to share this network adapter check box, the virtual switch is created. However, the virtual switch still binds to the host unexpectedly.
  • Network address translation (NAT) uses port number 49152 or a larger number, which Windows prohibits from being used by NAT.
  • When a virtual machine IP address type is static Out-of-Band and there is no IP address pool that is associated with the virtual machine network or the logical network, migration is complete with multiple errors.
  • If a highly available virtual machine is migrated from one node to another node by using Failover Cluster Manager, you receive an error message that indicates the absence of VHD files.
  • Some performance issues in VMM.
  • Connection with Operations Manager fails in a non-English environment.
  • After you upgrade VMM from System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to System Center 2012 R2, VLAN settings disappear and cannot be saved in the virtual machine.
  • Virtualization gateway could not be discovered by management packs.
  • The New-SCPhysicalComputerProfile Windows PowerShell cmdlet fails with a NullReferenceException exception.
  • Assume that you put a host into maintenance mode. When any highly available virtual machines cannot evacuate successfully, they are put into a saved state instead of into task failures.
  • Assume that you have a computer that is running VMware ESX Server to host virtual machines. Additionally, assume that cumulative progress for many applications, scripts or actions (that is reported by guest agent) becomes large. In this situation, all deployments time out, as the guest agent cannot communicate to the server successfully.
  • You cannot deploy a service template to VMware ESX 5.1 hosts. Additionally, you receive an error 22042 and a TimeoutWhileWaitingForVmToBootException (609) exception.
  • When you migrate a virtual machine together with Out-of-Band checkpoints, database corruption occurs.
  • Pass-through disks are not updated correctly in the database after they are refreshed from an Out-of-Band migration.
  • Assume that hosts establish a Common Information Model (CIM) session that can send policies to the host after the Hyper-V Network Virtualization initialization. Additionally, assume that a policy-sending activity is initiated before the CIM session creation is completed. In this situation, policies are stuck in the sending queue, and the host does not receive any Hyper-V Network Virtualization policies.
  • Communication is broken in Hyper-V Network Virtualization.
  • When you use a same user name for Run As Accounts in guest customization, a conflict occurs.
  • You cannot use a parameter together with .sql scripts for a Run As Account during a service installation.
  • You deploy a template that uses empty classification to a cloud. However, the template does not respect storage classifications that are set on the cloud.
  • When Windows Server fast file copy cannot deploy files successfully, the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) fallback task continues using the fast file copy credentials.

 

To manually download the update packages from Microsoft Update Catalog, go to one of the following download websites, as appropriate:

Data Protection Manager (KB2958100)

DownloadDownload the Orchestrator package now.

DownloadDownload the Service Manager package now.

Service Provider Foundation (KB 2932939)
DownloadDownload the Service Provider Foundation package now.

System Center Hashtags like #cloud

System Center: #sysctr
System Center App Controller: #appctrl
System Center Virtual Machine Manager: #vmm
System Center Service Manager: #scsm
System Center Operations Manager: #scom
System Center Data Protection Manager: #dpm
System Center Orchestrator: #sco
System Center Advisor: #scadvisor
System Center Configuration Manager: #configmgr
System Center Azure: #azure
System Center Windows Azure Pack: #wap

Posted April 23, 2014 by Robert Smit in System Center, System Center Hotfixes

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System Center Updates and Blog post #sysctr #cloud #wapack #azure

Below is a great fresh list of Blog post and two new KB articles and a couple of great blog post from the  @Building_Clouds Series. See all the blog post below. Enjoy !

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KB Articles

 

Product

Title

Forefront Identity Manager

Hotfix rollup (build 4.3.1082.0) is available for the Generic LDAP connector for Forefront Identity Manager (2936070)

Virtual Machine Manager

Hotfix vEthernet network adapter properties cannot be managed in SCVMM 2012 R2 (2922827)

 

 

Blog Posts

 

Product

Title

Building Clouds

Contoso Labs-Storage Purchasing (File Servers)

Building Clouds

Introducing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Starter Kit (VDI SK) v1.0 Preview – Part 1

Building Clouds

Introducing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Starter Kit (VDI SK) v1.0 Preview – Part 2

Building Clouds

Contoso Labs-Storage Purchasing (SAS config)

Building Clouds

Automation–The New World of Tenant Provisioning with Windows Azure Pack (Part 4): Automated Deployment of Tenant Workloads

Building Clouds

Contoso Labs-Network Purchasing (Vendor)

Building Clouds

Automation–The New World of Tenant Provisioning with Windows Azure Pack (Part 5): Working with the SQL Server resource provider, and the ITIL dilemma

Configuration Manager

Support Tip: SMSExec crashes after modifying the Maximum Number of Retries setting in ConfigMgr 2012 R2

Configuration Manager

Announcement: Update for Configuration Manager Clients for Mac Computers

Configuration Manager

Support Announcements for March 2014

Forefront Identity Manager

Hotfix rollup (build 4.3.1082.0) is available for the Generic LDAP connector for Forefront Identity Manager

In the Cloud

Recap: 2014 Hosting Summit

In the Cloud

Success with Hybrid Cloud: Getting Deep – Hyper-V Recovery Manager

Operations Manager

Support Tip: Operations Manager agents on Windows Server 2012 R2 show as grayed out

Service Manager

Monitoring and troubleshooting in Service Management Automation

Service Manager

Improving AD Connector Performance

System Center

Using Azure backup with DPM

Virtual Machine Manager

HOTFIX: The vEthernet network adapter properties cannot be managed in SCVMM 2012 R2

WSUS/Security

March 2014 Security Bulletin Webcast and Q&A

WSUS/Security

Configuring WSUS 6.x for Network Load Balancing (NLB)

WSUS/Security

Considerations for multiple WSUS instances sharing a content database when using System Center Configuration Manager, but without Network Load Balancing (NLB)

 

 

Want to join the twitter list or don’t know what the hastags are from the system center Products.

System Center Hashtags like #cloud

System Center: #sysctr
System Center App Controller:
#appctrl
System Center Virtual Machine Manager:
#vmm
System Center Service Manager:
#scsm
System Center Operations Manager:
#scom
System Center Data Protection Manager:
#dpm
System Center Orchestrator:
#sco
System Center Advisor:
#scadvisor
System Center Configuration Manager:
#configmgr
System Center Azure:
#azure
System Center Windows Azure Pack:
#wap

System Center All Up: http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/

System Center – Configuration Manager Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/
System Center – Data Protection Manager Team blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/
System Center – Orchestrator Support Team blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/
System Center – Operations Manager Team blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/
System Center – Service Manager Team blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager

System Center – Virtual Machine Manager Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm

Windows Intune: http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsintune/

WSUS Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/sus/

The AD RMS blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmssupp/

App-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/appv/

MED-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/medv/
Server App-V Team blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/serverappv

The Forefront Endpoint Protection blog : http://blogs.technet.com/b/clientsecurity/
The Forefront Identity Manager blog :
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ms-identity-support/
The Forefront TMG blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/isablog/
The Forefront UAG blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/edgeaccessblog/

Posted March 25, 2014 by Robert Smit in System Center, System Center 2012

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Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2012 R2 #scvmm #winserv #syctr

There are some updates for SCVMM,SCOM,SCDMP the easy method is by windows update But did you read the KB ?

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If you do read the KB from the SCVMM you need to do some extra steps. Do not forget those steps !

 

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There are 13 Virtual Machine Manager issues fixed in Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2012 R2. There is a download package for the VMM console and a separate download package for VMM Server. KB article 2904712

(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2904712)

In this KB there is a T-SQL script that must be run. Keep in mind it should be run on the VMM DB

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The Second step is give rights or you could see this errors :

  • An error occurred while trying to create an add-in folder for your account:
    Access to the path: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012 R2\Virtual Machine Manager\bin\AddInPipeline\AddIns" is denied.

  • When you open the VMM console, you receive the following error message:

    Could not update managed code add-in pipeline due to the following error:
    The required folder "C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012 R2\Virtual Machine Manager\bin\AddInPipeline\HostSideAdapters" does not exist.

So go to this location C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012 R2\Virtual Machine Manager\bin

Click the Select a principal link, type Authenticated Users, and then click OK

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My System Center Cloud is done patching.

Keep in mind there are also updates for SCOM and DPM see below and read the KB for the extra steps !uu

There are seven Operations Manager – UNIX and Linux Monitoring Management Pack issues fixed in Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2012 R2. See KB 2904678

There are 10 Operations Manager issues fixed in Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2012 R2. See KB article 2904678

(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2904678)

 

There are three Data Protection Manager (DPM) issues fixed in Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2012 R2. See KB article 2904687

(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2904687)

 

Want to join the twitter list or don’t know what the hastags are from the system center Products.

System Center Hashtags like #cloud

System Center: #sysctr
System Center App Controller: #appctrl
System Center Virtual Machine Manager: #vmm
System Center Service Manager: #scsm
System Center Operations Manager: #scom
System Center Data Protection Manager: #dpm
System Center Orchestrator: #sco
System Center Advisor: #scadvisor
System Center Configuration Manager: #configmgr
System Center Azure: #azure
System Center Windows Azure Pack: #wap

Posted January 29, 2014 by Robert Smit in System Center 2012

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