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System Center 2012 SP1 TAP Airlift look back

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Last week I had the chance to visit the Microsoft TAP Airlift event for System Center 2012 SP1. The event was hosted on the Microsoft campus in the Microsoft Enterprise Engineering Center in Redmond.

Here some pictures from our trip to Seattle and Redmond:

Finally we had some great days and could see and learn a lot about Service Pack 1. Another great thing of the TAP event was to meet some great people from Microsoft, Partners, MVPs and Customers.

I hope I get the chance to participate in the next System Center Technology Adoption Program.

System Center 2012 SP1 TAP Airlift @Redmond

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As a member of the Technology Adoption Program (TAP) for the Service Pack 1 release of System Center 2012, which will among others bring support for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and Windows 8, I will be joining a Airlift event (17th to 19th of September) on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond.

Also onboard are my fellows from itnetx gmbh, Marcel Zehner (MVP for System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management) and Stefan Roth (System Center Operations Manager Expert).

I am really looking for this event, it will be great to get some hands-on experience on the new System Center release, learning and discussing with others. If you also visiting this event and would like to have chat send me a message.

System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Upgrade from RC to RTM

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I just got some interesting news from Microsoft Consultant Michel Lüscher (www.server-talk.eu), about upgrading System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager 2012 from RC to RTM.

Only Microsoft Technology Adoption Program” (TAP) Customers were allowed to use SCVMM 2012 RC for production and they also got some pre-releases which made it possible to upgrade from VMM 2012 RC to VMM 2012 RTM. For non-TAP customers this was a unsupported upgrade scenario.

But Microsoft got a lot of requests about the RC to RTM upgrade, so they released a RC Upgrade Tool which upgrades the VMM RC database for a supported upgrade to VMM 2012 RTM.

Michel Lüscher describes in his blog post (System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager von RC nach RTM (german)) how you can upgrade your Virtual Machine Manager RC installation.

First you have to get the VMM 2012 Upgrade Tool from Microsoft. You can create a free Microsoft Support Call with the Content ID #2705942.

Now you can uninstall the RC installation of Virtual Machine Manager 2012 with the option “Retain Database”. After you have removed the VMM Installation you can Upgrade the VMM database with the Upgrade Tool.

UpgradeVMM2012RC.exe –Server MyVMMServer –Database –VirtualManagerDB