{"id":10011,"date":"2009-11-25T10:41:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T10:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/hotfixes-for-vmm-2008-r2\/"},"modified":"2009-11-25T10:41:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T10:41:13","slug":"hotfixes-for-vmm-2008-r2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10011","title":{"rendered":"Hotfixes for VMM 2008 R2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft released a <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/?kbid=976244\" target=\"_blank\">hotfix rollup package (KB976244)<\/a> for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 (not VMM 2008).&#160; It fixes three issues:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<h6>If a virtual machine that was created from a template fails during the customization phase, the owner of the virtual machine cannot use the self-service portal to connect to the virtual machine. <\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6>The <b>Enable spoofing of MAC addresses<\/b> option in the virtual machine properties is cleared when you configure the network adapter to connect to a different virtual network.<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6>The &quot;Refresh host cluster&quot; job can take more than 10 minutes to finish.<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h6>This update is available via Microsoft Update.&#160; Make sure you approve this update if you\u2019re using WSUS, ConfigMgr or something else to control your updates.<\/h6>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>There is also another update (<a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/?kbid=976246\" target=\"_blank\">KB976246<\/a>) available for VMM 2008 R2 (only).&#160; It deals with this issue: <em>\u201cWhen you remove a virtual hard disk from a virtual machine in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, the .vhd file on the Hyper-V server is deleted without warning\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Again, the update is available via Microsoft Update.&#160; After you install the hotfix you will get this warning every time you attempt to delete a VHD in VMM 2008 R2:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou have chosen to remove virtual hard disks from virtual machine VMName. This action will delete the .vhd files.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Do you want to continue?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m approving the updates now on our WSUS server to deal with these issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft released a hotfix rollup package (KB976244) for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 (not VMM 2008).&#160; It fixes three issues: If a virtual machine that was created from a template fails during the customization phase, the owner of the virtual machine cannot use the self-service portal to connect to the virtual machine. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10011\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hotfixes for VMM 2008 R2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[181,193,196],"class_list":["post-10011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-hyper-v","tag-system-center","tag-vmm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}