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• Got a "Bad Gateway"?

  Greetings, folks! Hope you had a great Easter on last Sunday, if you celebrate that holiday! My kids certainly enjoyed hunting eggs in a typical Seattle drizzling Saturday morning. J This blog entry is for folks who use or plan to use VMM to manage VMware... Posted Apr 14 2009, 11:41 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Network, SCVMM, DNS, VMM, VMWare, Agent Deployment and Host Configuration

• When should I consider running my VMM Service by using a domain account?

  Greetings folks! Hope you all had a good Valentine weekend last week! If you noticed, during your VMM Server installation, there is an option of allowing you to select a different account to run VMM Server service (VMMService) from the default computer... Posted Feb 19 2009, 08:19 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Setup, SCVMM, VMM, Agent Deployment and Host Configuration, Disjoint namespace

• All about refreshers ...

  If you have been using VMM for a while, you’ve probably figured out that we use various “refreshers” to pull data from the hosts and VMs that we manage. When deploying VMM in various sized environments, depending on the perf/scale requirements, you might... Posted Oct 01 2008, 06:19 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Powershell, Network, SCVMM, debugging, Clustering, VMWare, Library, PRO, Agent Deployment and Host Configuration, User Role Management, Intelligent Placement

• Two important updates for SCVMM

  Working with SCVMM team, Hyper-V team and BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) team have just released two important updates to support SCVMM scenarios. We highly recommend our customers to install these updates to your Hyper-V host environments... Posted Sep 24 2008, 12:52 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SCVMM, Hyper-V, BITS, Agent Deployment and Host Configuration

• Install and uninstall VMM agent on Windows 2008 Server Core

  Since Windows 2008 Server Core does not come with Graphical UI, managing things on Core can be a bit challenging for folks who are used to the various administrator consoles. Luckily, here is a handy dandy command reference: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads... Posted Sep 08 2008, 02:15 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SCVMM, Agent Deployment and Host Configuration

• How to collect WinRM traces

  Since “ How to collect SCVMM traces ” and “ What to do when I have hosts in Needs Attention state? ” are published, we've seen requests on how to further debug WinRM/WMI issues that lead to VMM AddHosts failures. It’s particularly useful, when you... Posted Aug 28 2008, 06:59 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SCVMM, debugging, wmi, WinRM, Agent Deployment and Host Configuration

• What ELSE can I do when my host is in Not Responding state?

  After I posted " What to do when my host is in Not Responding state? ", I received a few queries about the issues people ran into. I captured my notes when explaining some of the errors folks reported. I thought that it might be interesting... Posted Jul 30 2008, 01:23 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SCVMM, Agent Deployment and Host Configuration

• Removing an ESX host or stopping managing an ESX host?

  We have heard some feedback that some of our customers did not expect VMM to remove an ESX host when a "Remove" action was requested for an ESX host managed through VirtualCenter Server (VC) by VMM Server. So, I think that it might be worth... Posted Jul 09 2008, 04:01 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SCVMM, VMWare, Agent Deployment and Host Configuration

• Managing Hosts in Windows 2000 AD Forest By Using VMM 2008

  As you know when you install VMM 2008 server , the computer where you want to install VMM 2008 Server must be joined in a Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 AD domain. That's a hard requirement and the install will be blocked if it is not met. We hope all... Posted Jun 05 2008, 12:26 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Setup, SCVMM, Agent Deployment and Host Configuration