System Center Advisor Gateway requirements

What kind of machine should we use for the System Center Advisor Gateway?
I can find anything that mentions that. We dont really want to use one of our mgmt servers.
Thanks
Thanks Lance

The purpose of System Center Advisor Gateway is sending data to the web service and to receive updated configuration information from the web service in behalf of agent. when you plan the Advisor gateway requirement, the file space of the server is
the most critical factor to consider.
The factors should be consider:
1) number of agents per gateway
2) The average size of the data transfer from the agent to gateway per day.
3) Archival period for keeping data on the gateway
By default each agent uploads CAB files to the gateway twice per day. The size of the CAB files depends on the configuration of the machine (such as number of SQL engines and number databases) and the health of the machine (e.g. the number of alerts generated).
In most cases, the daily upload size is typically less than 100 KB.
e.g. daily upload size: 100KB per agent
number of agents: 5
archival period: 5 days(default)
estimated space required: 5 x 100KB x 5 ~ 2500KB
Roger

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For more info. of system Center Advisor, you can refer below link
http://stefanroth.net/2013/06/29/scom-2012-r2-system-center-advisor-overview/
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System Center 2012 Gateway servers capabilities

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System Center 2012 R2 Requirements

Hi guys,
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Hi,
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SCOM 2012 R2 Gateway installation error and no System Center Management server after install

Hi,
I have installed SCOM 2012 R2 Gateway and I got an error 25372 error at the start of the install. It still installs though. However I have no system center management service running in services but I can see healthservice.exe is running.
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Using gateways with certificates is always a bit complicated because there are several things that needs to be configured correctly.
DNS: The MS and the GW server need to be able to resolve each others FQDN. you can adjust the hosts files if needed.
Traffic is only TCP 5723 from the gateway to the MS. You can test this with the telnet client.
Certificates:
http://marthijnvanrheenen.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/scom-2012-connecting-a-gateway-server-using-certificates/
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System Center 2012 R2 Config Manager requirements

Looking to deploy System Center 2012 R2 and have been musing over system requirements. There was slight thud as my jaw hit the floor when I discovered a standalone primary environment (SQL installed on same server as Config Manager) required 32GB of memory!
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MS System Center Operations Manager 2010 Download required for Upgrade from SCOM 2007 R2 (Select)

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to incompatibility with System Center 2012 - Operations Manager, these applications must be uninstalled."
Upgrade was started from dos elevated prompt with modified parameters like this:
setup.exe /silent /upgrade
/AcceptEndUserLicenseAgreement:1
/UseLocalSystemDASAccount
/DataReaderUser:<domain\user>
/DataReaderPassword:<password>
Research in internet and we found another person with same issue, which reports that direct upgrade from SCOM 2007 R2 to SCOM 2012 SP1 is not possible but if upgrade is done over
SCOM 2012 to SCOM 2012 SP1 it succeeds.
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Everything shows Service Pack 1 or the newer R2.
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Our “Recommended” rolling upgrade path looks like the following:
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What is the alternative to TMG/ISA For SSL-Bridging-Capable Reverse Proxy For System Center 2012 R2 IBCM?

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Hi,
You are correct, all TMG product sales officially ended in December 2012.
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March's TechNet Wiki System Center Guru Winners announced!!

The results for March'sTechNet
Guru competition have been posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2014/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2014.aspx <- results page!
Congratulations to all our new Gurus for March!
We will be interviewing some of the winners and highlighting their achievements, as the month unfolds.
Below is a summary of the medal winners, the last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however the full version is shown in the link above.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2014
Tomasso Groenendijk
Using BAM in the ESB Toolkit
Ed Price: "Incredibly valuable and very well written! Great article!"
Mandi Ohlinger: "A custom BAM dashboard - LOVE it! Another great ESB addition to the Wiki."
TGN: "Nice one, I really liked this one, explains how to use the ESB together with BAM, great work and well explained!"
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Windows Azure BizTalk Services: Pulling Messages from a Service Bus Queue
Ed Price: "This is amazingly well written with beautiful images and formatting. Great job!"
TGN: "Azure, Azure, Azure! Nice one Steef-Jan, people are waiting on articles like this. Good job, and thanks for the contribution!"
Mandi Ohlinger: "A very informative How To. Screen shots are very helpful."
boatseller
Detecting a Missing Message
Mandi Ohlinger: "GREAT addition to the Wiki and to any user who suspects missing messages. The BizTalk support team can use this orchestration. "
Ed Price: "I love the visuals on the orchestration implementation! Important topic!"
TGN: "Nice article, great to see a solution to detect missing files."
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2014
Eihab Isaac
FIM 2010 R2 BHOLD: Non-BHOLD Approval Process
Ed Price: "Very thorough explanations! Great formatting and colors on the tables and code snippets! And the images are also helpful!"
PG: "Nice article, we need more of these."
Micah Rowland
FIM:How To Use PowerShell to View a Metaverse Object's Connector's Attribututes
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PG: "Nice article, nice format. well written"
Ed Price: "Good code snippet and use of code comments. Could use more explanations and maybe breaking the code into sections with more information about each section. Good job!"
Giriraj Singh
FIM:Delete Bulk Expected Rule Entries Using FIM OTB features
Ed Price: "Good procedural steps! It could benefit from more explanations, a grammar pass, and some images. Good article!"
PG: "Short but nice article."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2014
Matthew Yarlett
SharePoint: Use PowerShell to find Fields using a Managed Metadata TermSet
Jinchun Chen: "Good article."
Ed Price: "Although this is Matt's shorter article this month, this is an incredibly important topic, and the code is perfect! As Dan says in the comments: "Matthew Yarlett has done it again!! IMHO when it comes to SharePoint powershell
you are second to none." This is a great article!"
Rahul A Shinde
SharePoint 2013: Deploy and apply theme to SharePoint sites with PowerShell
Ed Price: "Fantastic explanations and use of images!"
Matthew Yarlett
SharePoint: Testing Email Alerts in UAT and DEV Environments
Jinchun Chen: "Nice! It can be used for troubleshooting SharePoint Incoming/Outgoing related issues too."
Ed Price: "Wow! This article is astonishingly thorough!"
Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2014
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Centering Text in Graphics Window
RZ: "Clearly written explanation with nice graphics to go with it."
Ed Price: "I love having the three options like this! And the images really bring it to life! The links to the shared programs (with their source code) really help if you want to dig deeper and learn more!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic Known Issue: 23589
- Controls.GetTextBoxText() Returns CR+LF as Newline from Multi-Line Text Box in Local but CR in Remote
RZ: "Bugs are always hard to track down, especially the unknown unknowns :( Good job on hunting it down!"
Ed Price: "This acts as a valuable KB article! Great addition to the troubleshooting library!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Expression
RZ: "Good introduction to expressions"
Ed Price: "Short and sweet intro to Expressions. Thanks, Nonki!"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2014
Michael Amadi
A Practical Example of How to Apply Power Query Data
Transformations on Structured and Unstructured Datasets
NN: "This is a terrific tutorial on Power Pivot with very helpful images. Great article"
Ed Price: "This is a fantastic combination of Power Query and Power Pivot... a valuable contribution!"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2014
chandra sekhar pathivada
managing database backups across all the instances without maintenance plan
Samuel Lester: "Chandra, outstanding contribution and information! Your SSIS package handles many of the shortcomings of Maintenance Plans. MPs were originally created to assist DBAs with the more common administrative
tasks, but as the scale continues to grow across enterprise environments, we're all forced to write our own enhanced versions such as this. Thanks for the addition and please do add to the Gallery if you haven't yet."
Jinchun Chen: "Nice. It is suggested to add error outputs in the package to handler unexpected errors."
NN: "Good article. The SSIS solution can use a bit more explanation. Also See Also section is missing"
DRC: "This is good article, The only this which can be corrected is : ==> This can be achieved using “maintenance Cleanup Task • Maintenance Plan has a control flow item “maintenance Cleanup Task” to delete the old backup files based
on age of the backup, but it creates the problem when it deletes the full database backups based on n no.of days leaving all the dependent intermediate differential and transaction logs which are useless. "
Shanky
Understanding Logging in Tempdb.Is Tempdb re-created or rebuilt after SQL
Server restart
NN: "Very good article with an interesting analysis"
DRC: "This article is good and provides lots of detailed information along with sample query and screenshot. The screenshot of few need few more details (files of model are missing) This article can be broken down into 2 1) understanding
tempdb recreation 2) Logging in Tempdb 1) understanding tempdb recreation:- This is not concluded properly. The article doesnt talk about the physical files which are recreated even if we delete the tempdb files "
Samuel Lester: "Shanky, very nice article on the internals of TempDB! It was tough judging this month as both articles were very informative contributions!"
System Center Technical Guru - March 2014
Mr X
How to manage VM pinning within a Hyper-V cluster by
combining the use of System Center VMM and Orchestrator
Ed Price: "Mr. X, this is another incredibly thorough article! Fantastic job!"
Idan Vexler
Create Custom XML For OSD In SCCM
Ed Price: "Love the list of requirements! Very thorough in dividing each step!"
Omar Lopez (loplim)
SCOM 2012 - Create Alert / Monitor Based on Windows event ( Administrator login
alert )
Ed Price: "Good use of images. Could use a TOC with sections and more descriptions. Good job!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2014
Jayakumaur (JK)
Understanding IDENTITY in SQL Server
Ed Price: "Wow, what a competitive month! This article is amazing, with thorough explanations in each section!"
Richard Mueller: "A good tutorial on an important feature of T-SQL."
Durval Ramos
Paging a Query with SQL Server
Ed Price: "Durval's article is fantastically thorough and easy to follow!"
Richard Mueller: "Very useful concept when populating controls from a query, which should improve performance. I like the images. Well done."
Naomi N
T-SQL: Split String with a Twist
Richard Mueller: "Very intersting problem with an original solution."
Ed Price: "A very powerful and well-articulated solution from Naomi!"
Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2014
The Thinker
Exporting and Importing Wireless Settings Using Netsh in VB.NET
SB: "Code could be formatted better, task is something I can see as potentially useful although I would prefer a bit more narrative description and comments in the code explaining why it was done a certain
way, although the code is simple enough to work through."
MR: "Great tool code!"
Ed Price: "This is a good contribution! One way to improve an article like this is to explain the parts of the code more in depth, as a way to introduce each snippet (and maybe dividing a block up more). Then you could link to the Gallery
iteam if the reader wants to access the entire snippet at once. The images are also very helpful! Great job!"
Richard Mueller: "Perhaps this code should be in the gallery. There should be more explanation in a Wiki."
Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2014
João Sousa
ASP.NET WebAPI 2 - Stream Windows Azure blobs
NN: "Very nice tutorial and also can be downloaded from the Gallery"
Ed Price: "I love to see this ASP.NET content! Each step is very clear! Great code formatting!"
Raghunathan S
C# Code Compilation at Runtime from C# Windows Forms Application
Ed Price: "Good descriptions and code formatting. It could benefit from a TOC. Great article!"
NN: "This looks like an interesting article, but too short and the code is hard to read in its present format"
Raghunathan S
Creating a Simple logging class with System.Diagnostics namespace in C#
NN: "Good article, but too short"
Ed Price: "This is a pretty good article. It could benefit from a TOC and more descriptions around what the code is doing and why. Good job!"
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2014
Matthew Yarlett
Wiki: Basic Image Formatting using Pixlr
BL: "This deserves credit as much for the idea as for the actual article - many authors contribute from computers that may not have authoring tools installed and this simple online solution has the potential to iprove
quality a lot."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent explanation of a useful tool for Wiki authors. A "See Also" section would be useful."
PG: "Nice artilce, well done, nice layout. Great!"
NN: "Good article"
Durval Ramos
VBA & VBS Portal
NN: "Very good new portal about VBA. Introduction may be improved a bit"
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of Wiki articles. Excellent use of recommended features in a Wiki article."
PG: "Nice article good start!"
BL: "Another great initial compilation of relevant resources. Would be very interested in seeing how this develop over time."
Mr X
Wiki: System Center Orchestrator Portal
NN: "Good new portal. Missing See Also section with links to other portals"
Richard Mueller: "A good collection of articles. This Portal adds a lot to the TechNet Wiki."
PG: "Nice and neat article? Suggestion to add more references to related articles and platforms on Wiki."
BL: "great initial compilation of SC Orchestrator resources. Hoping this will grow over time as the product has a few other active Wiki contributors."
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2014
Isham Mohamed
Pin Windows Phone 8 app to start screen on first launch.
Peter Laker: "A very useful and informative article! Also, Nice use of fonts and images."
Ed Price: "Good explanation, but it could benefit from a TOC and tweaked formatting. Good job!"
Ibraheem Osama Mohamed
Coming from an asp.net background, let’s build our first Windows Store Application
Ed Price: "Great job on the formatting, explanations, and code snippets!"
Peter Laker: "Excellent primer for those moving from asp.net and all beginners."
mcosmin
The Performance Analyzer Paradox
Ed Price: "This is a good philosophical article, but it would be richer with examples and visuals. "
Peter Laker: "Nice story, good reading, very worthy entry and gratefully received!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2014
Magnus (MM8)
WPF/MVVM: Handling Changes To Dependency Properties In The View
Ed Price: "Nice, thorough topic with good explanations! Could benefit from code formatting. Great article!"
Peter Laker: "A nice primer on a fundamental aspect of xaml. Great layout, images, descriptions, etc."
dev hedgehog
Trick To Use StaticResource With Path
Peter Laker: "A very useful and commonly pondered subject. Thanks for a great contribution!"
Ed Price: "This is a great solution with good code formatting and code comments!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2014
Mr X
How to manage your DC/DNS servers with dynamic IPs in Windows Azure
JM: "This is an excellent article, however you need to change all instances of the term "on-promise" to "on-premise.""
JH: "really detailed, very complete with scripts added"
Richard Mueller: "This might be the best article I have judged. Code formatting could be improved, but otherwise an outstanding contribution."
Mr X
How to assign a private Static IP to a Windows Azure VM
JH: "excellent, concise, good topic"
Richard Mueller: "Excellent documentation of the use of very new tools to manage IP addresses."
JM: "Another excellent article, thanks much for your contributions!"
Mahdi Tehrani
Customize DST time zone configuration across the forest with GPO
JM: "This is an excellent article, however you need to change all instances of the term "Daylight Time Saving" to "Daylight Savings Time.""
JH: "good info, great illustrations and writing"
Richard Mueller: "Original work for an tricky problem. I think the script should run as a Startup script instead of a Logon script on the clients. A "See Also" section and links would help."
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System Center Technical Guru - March 2014
Mr X
How to manage VM pinning within a Hyper-V cluster by
combining the use of System Center VMM and Orchestrator
Ed Price: "Mr. X, this is another incredibly thorough article! Fantastic job!"
Idan Vexler
Create Custom XML For OSD In SCCM
Ed Price: "Love the list of requirements! Very thorough in dividing each step!"
Omar Lopez (loplim)
SCOM 2012 - Create Alert / Monitor Based on Windows event ( Administrator login
alert )
Ed Price: "Good use of images. Could use a TOC with sections and more descriptions. Good job!"
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April's TechNet Wiki System Center Guru Winners announced!!

The results for March'sTechNet
Guru competition have been posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2014/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2014.aspx <- results page!
Congratulations to all our new Gurus for March!
We will be interviewing some of the winners and highlighting their achievements, as the month unfolds.
Below is a summary of the medal winners, the last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however the full version is shown in the link above.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2014
Tomasso Groenendijk
Using BAM in the ESB Toolkit
Ed Price: "Incredibly valuable and very well written! Great article!"
Mandi Ohlinger: "A custom BAM dashboard - LOVE it! Another great ESB addition to the Wiki."
TGN: "Nice one, I really liked this one, explains how to use the ESB together with BAM, great work and well explained!"
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Windows Azure BizTalk Services: Pulling Messages from a Service Bus Queue
Ed Price: "This is amazingly well written with beautiful images and formatting. Great job!"
TGN: "Azure, Azure, Azure! Nice one Steef-Jan, people are waiting on articles like this. Good job, and thanks for the contribution!"
Mandi Ohlinger: "A very informative How To. Screen shots are very helpful."
boatseller
Detecting a Missing Message
Mandi Ohlinger: "GREAT addition to the Wiki and to any user who suspects missing messages. The BizTalk support team can use this orchestration. "
Ed Price: "I love the visuals on the orchestration implementation! Important topic!"
TGN: "Nice article, great to see a solution to detect missing files."
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2014
Eihab Isaac
FIM 2010 R2 BHOLD: Non-BHOLD Approval Process
Ed Price: "Very thorough explanations! Great formatting and colors on the tables and code snippets! And the images are also helpful!"
PG: "Nice article, we need more of these."
Micah Rowland
FIM:How To Use PowerShell to View a Metaverse Object's Connector's Attribututes
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PG: "Nice article, nice format. well written"
Ed Price: "Good code snippet and use of code comments. Could use more explanations and maybe breaking the code into sections with more information about each section. Good job!"
Giriraj Singh
FIM:Delete Bulk Expected Rule Entries Using FIM OTB features
Ed Price: "Good procedural steps! It could benefit from more explanations, a grammar pass, and some images. Good article!"
PG: "Short but nice article."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2014
Matthew Yarlett
SharePoint: Use PowerShell to find Fields using a Managed Metadata TermSet
Jinchun Chen: "Good article."
Ed Price: "Although this is Matt's shorter article this month, this is an incredibly important topic, and the code is perfect! As Dan says in the comments: "Matthew Yarlett has done it again!! IMHO when it comes to SharePoint powershell
you are second to none." This is a great article!"
Rahul A Shinde
SharePoint 2013: Deploy and apply theme to SharePoint sites with PowerShell
Ed Price: "Fantastic explanations and use of images!"
Matthew Yarlett
SharePoint: Testing Email Alerts in UAT and DEV Environments
Jinchun Chen: "Nice! It can be used for troubleshooting SharePoint Incoming/Outgoing related issues too."
Ed Price: "Wow! This article is astonishingly thorough!"
Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2014
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Centering Text in Graphics Window
RZ: "Clearly written explanation with nice graphics to go with it."
Ed Price: "I love having the three options like this! And the images really bring it to life! The links to the shared programs (with their source code) really help if you want to dig deeper and learn more!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic Known Issue: 23589
- Controls.GetTextBoxText() Returns CR+LF as Newline from Multi-Line Text Box in Local but CR in Remote
RZ: "Bugs are always hard to track down, especially the unknown unknowns :( Good job on hunting it down!"
Ed Price: "This acts as a valuable KB article! Great addition to the troubleshooting library!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Expression
RZ: "Good introduction to expressions"
Ed Price: "Short and sweet intro to Expressions. Thanks, Nonki!"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2014
Michael Amadi
A Practical Example of How to Apply Power Query Data
Transformations on Structured and Unstructured Datasets
NN: "This is a terrific tutorial on Power Pivot with very helpful images. Great article"
Ed Price: "This is a fantastic combination of Power Query and Power Pivot... a valuable contribution!"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2014
chandra sekhar pathivada
managing database backups across all the instances without maintenance plan
Samuel Lester: "Chandra, outstanding contribution and information! Your SSIS package handles many of the shortcomings of Maintenance Plans. MPs were originally created to assist DBAs with the more common administrative
tasks, but as the scale continues to grow across enterprise environments, we're all forced to write our own enhanced versions such as this. Thanks for the addition and please do add to the Gallery if you haven't yet."
Jinchun Chen: "Nice. It is suggested to add error outputs in the package to handler unexpected errors."
NN: "Good article. The SSIS solution can use a bit more explanation. Also See Also section is missing"
DRC: "This is good article, The only this which can be corrected is : ==> This can be achieved using “maintenance Cleanup Task • Maintenance Plan has a control flow item “maintenance Cleanup Task” to delete the old backup files based
on age of the backup, but it creates the problem when it deletes the full database backups based on n no.of days leaving all the dependent intermediate differential and transaction logs which are useless. "
Shanky
Understanding Logging in Tempdb.Is Tempdb re-created or rebuilt after SQL
Server restart
NN: "Very good article with an interesting analysis"
DRC: "This article is good and provides lots of detailed information along with sample query and screenshot. The screenshot of few need few more details (files of model are missing) This article can be broken down into 2 1) understanding
tempdb recreation 2) Logging in Tempdb 1) understanding tempdb recreation:- This is not concluded properly. The article doesnt talk about the physical files which are recreated even if we delete the tempdb files "
Samuel Lester: "Shanky, very nice article on the internals of TempDB! It was tough judging this month as both articles were very informative contributions!"
System Center Technical Guru - March 2014
Mr X
How to manage VM pinning within a Hyper-V cluster by
combining the use of System Center VMM and Orchestrator
Ed Price: "Mr. X, this is another incredibly thorough article! Fantastic job!"
Idan Vexler
Create Custom XML For OSD In SCCM
Ed Price: "Love the list of requirements! Very thorough in dividing each step!"
Omar Lopez (loplim)
SCOM 2012 - Create Alert / Monitor Based on Windows event ( Administrator login
alert )
Ed Price: "Good use of images. Could use a TOC with sections and more descriptions. Good job!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2014
Jayakumaur (JK)
Understanding IDENTITY in SQL Server
Ed Price: "Wow, what a competitive month! This article is amazing, with thorough explanations in each section!"
Richard Mueller: "A good tutorial on an important feature of T-SQL."
Durval Ramos
Paging a Query with SQL Server
Ed Price: "Durval's article is fantastically thorough and easy to follow!"
Richard Mueller: "Very useful concept when populating controls from a query, which should improve performance. I like the images. Well done."
Naomi N
T-SQL: Split String with a Twist
Richard Mueller: "Very intersting problem with an original solution."
Ed Price: "A very powerful and well-articulated solution from Naomi!"
Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2014
The Thinker
Exporting and Importing Wireless Settings Using Netsh in VB.NET
SB: "Code could be formatted better, task is something I can see as potentially useful although I would prefer a bit more narrative description and comments in the code explaining why it was done a certain
way, although the code is simple enough to work through."
MR: "Great tool code!"
Ed Price: "This is a good contribution! One way to improve an article like this is to explain the parts of the code more in depth, as a way to introduce each snippet (and maybe dividing a block up more). Then you could link to the Gallery
iteam if the reader wants to access the entire snippet at once. The images are also very helpful! Great job!"
Richard Mueller: "Perhaps this code should be in the gallery. There should be more explanation in a Wiki."
Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2014
João Sousa
ASP.NET WebAPI 2 - Stream Windows Azure blobs
NN: "Very nice tutorial and also can be downloaded from the Gallery"
Ed Price: "I love to see this ASP.NET content! Each step is very clear! Great code formatting!"
Raghunathan S
C# Code Compilation at Runtime from C# Windows Forms Application
Ed Price: "Good descriptions and code formatting. It could benefit from a TOC. Great article!"
NN: "This looks like an interesting article, but too short and the code is hard to read in its present format"
Raghunathan S
Creating a Simple logging class with System.Diagnostics namespace in C#
NN: "Good article, but too short"
Ed Price: "This is a pretty good article. It could benefit from a TOC and more descriptions around what the code is doing and why. Good job!"
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2014
Matthew Yarlett
Wiki: Basic Image Formatting using Pixlr
BL: "This deserves credit as much for the idea as for the actual article - many authors contribute from computers that may not have authoring tools installed and this simple online solution has the potential to iprove
quality a lot."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent explanation of a useful tool for Wiki authors. A "See Also" section would be useful."
PG: "Nice artilce, well done, nice layout. Great!"
NN: "Good article"
Durval Ramos
VBA & VBS Portal
NN: "Very good new portal about VBA. Introduction may be improved a bit"
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of Wiki articles. Excellent use of recommended features in a Wiki article."
PG: "Nice article good start!"
BL: "Another great initial compilation of relevant resources. Would be very interested in seeing how this develop over time."
Mr X
Wiki: System Center Orchestrator Portal
NN: "Good new portal. Missing See Also section with links to other portals"
Richard Mueller: "A good collection of articles. This Portal adds a lot to the TechNet Wiki."
PG: "Nice and neat article? Suggestion to add more references to related articles and platforms on Wiki."
BL: "great initial compilation of SC Orchestrator resources. Hoping this will grow over time as the product has a few other active Wiki contributors."
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2014
Isham Mohamed
Pin Windows Phone 8 app to start screen on first launch.
Peter Laker: "A very useful and informative article! Also, Nice use of fonts and images."
Ed Price: "Good explanation, but it could benefit from a TOC and tweaked formatting. Good job!"
Ibraheem Osama Mohamed
Coming from an asp.net background, let’s build our first Windows Store Application
Ed Price: "Great job on the formatting, explanations, and code snippets!"
Peter Laker: "Excellent primer for those moving from asp.net and all beginners."
mcosmin
The Performance Analyzer Paradox
Ed Price: "This is a good philosophical article, but it would be richer with examples and visuals. "
Peter Laker: "Nice story, good reading, very worthy entry and gratefully received!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2014
Magnus (MM8)
WPF/MVVM: Handling Changes To Dependency Properties In The View
Ed Price: "Nice, thorough topic with good explanations! Could benefit from code formatting. Great article!"
Peter Laker: "A nice primer on a fundamental aspect of xaml. Great layout, images, descriptions, etc."
dev hedgehog
Trick To Use StaticResource With Path
Peter Laker: "A very useful and commonly pondered subject. Thanks for a great contribution!"
Ed Price: "This is a great solution with good code formatting and code comments!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2014
Mr X
How to manage your DC/DNS servers with dynamic IPs in Windows Azure
JM: "This is an excellent article, however you need to change all instances of the term "on-promise" to "on-premise.""
JH: "really detailed, very complete with scripts added"
Richard Mueller: "This might be the best article I have judged. Code formatting could be improved, but otherwise an outstanding contribution."
Mr X
How to assign a private Static IP to a Windows Azure VM
JH: "excellent, concise, good topic"
Richard Mueller: "Excellent documentation of the use of very new tools to manage IP addresses."
JM: "Another excellent article, thanks much for your contributions!"
Mahdi Tehrani
Customize DST time zone configuration across the forest with GPO
JM: "This is an excellent article, however you need to change all instances of the term "Daylight Time Saving" to "Daylight Savings Time.""
JH: "good info, great illustrations and writing"
Richard Mueller: "Original work for an tricky problem. I think the script should run as a Startup script instead of a Logon script on the clients. A "See Also" section and links would help."
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System Center Technical Guru - March 2014
Mr X
How to manage VM pinning within a Hyper-V cluster by
combining the use of System Center VMM and Orchestrator
Ed Price: "Mr. X, this is another incredibly thorough article! Fantastic job!"
Idan Vexler
Create Custom XML For OSD In SCCM
Ed Price: "Love the list of requirements! Very thorough in dividing each step!"
Omar Lopez (loplim)
SCOM 2012 - Create Alert / Monitor Based on Windows event ( Administrator login
alert )
Ed Price: "Good use of images. Could use a TOC with sections and more descriptions. Good job!"
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FYI Update Rollup 3 for Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 - Virtual Machine Manager (KB2965413) Stops SCVMM service starting

I just applied update:
Update Rollup 3 for Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 - Virtual Machine Manager (KB2965413)
and (KB2965414) but it failed to install.
After a reboot I could not login to the VMM and the service would not start
An event id 0 was reported with:
Service cannot be started. System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException: Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeModule.GetTypes(RuntimeModule module)
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeModule.GetTypes()
   at System.Reflection.Assembly.GetTypes()
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Remoting.IndigoSerializableObject.BuildKnownAssemblyTypes(Assembly assembly)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Remoting.IndigoSerializableObject.InitializeKnownTypesCache(List`1 assembliesToExamine)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Engine.Remoting.IndigoServiceHost.InitializeKnownTypesCache()
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Engine.VirtualManagerService.TimeStartupMethod(String description, TimedStartupMethod methodToTime)
   at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Engine.VirtualManagerService.OnStart(String[] args)
   at System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase.ServiceQueuedMainCallback(Object state)
After I removed the update the VMM was able to start, no reboot required.
When I have time I will try to apply both updates again successfully and see if the issue still occurs.
Vista Ultimate Dell XPS M1330

FYI. I've had the same issue after I installed Update Rollup 3 (KB2965413), seeing the exact same error on event log. Tried to start the service manually, getting service unable to start error. This is a machine running
with Windows Server 2012 Standard. Solution for me is simple. I just install
KB2965414 (Update Rollup 3 for SCVMM 2012 R2), reboot the server, and the SCVMM service auto start up by itself.

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