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System Center 2016 Technical Preview 5

Microsoft added new VHDs to Download Center which contain new System Center Technical Preview 5.You can use them to evaluate and explore new features of the latest TP. + @MSDN you can download ISOs
*And now we are waiting for WS 2016 TP5 public release (I predict it is gonna be available soon..may be this week)  Windows Server 2016 TP5 is here.

What’s new in System Center 2016 TP5 (has not been updated yet. please be patient and [technet] now it’s updated to TP5. enjoy!)

[MS Official Blog] What’s new in System Center 2016 TP5

Name LINK
Data Protection Manager Download VHD
Orchestrator Download VHD
Operations Manager Download VHD
Service Manager Download VHD
Virtual Machine Manager Download VHD
Configuration Manager (w/EP) Download EXE

Update Rollup 9 | System Center 2012 R2

List of all newly released updates/KBs for SC 2012 R2 products

Some new VMM features and issues have been added/resolved :

  • New: Enable Dynamic VLAN on the vNIC of a virtual machine. 
    New-SCLogicalNetwork -Name ‘Test Logical Network’ -LogicalNetworkDefinitionIsolation -AllowDynamicVlanOnVnic $true

    By default, the –AllowDynamicVlanOnVnic parameter is set to False.
    This feature can be leveraged only with CISCO ACI in order to support micro segmentation.

  • Performance issues are seen during VM Live Migration in a Hyper-V Network Virtualization (HNV) environment
  • When you add a stand-alone host to a cluster, VMM also adds the storage of the host to the cluster.
    There is no option available in VMM to exclude local storage while adding the node.
    Therefore, latency issues may occur in VMs, and they may fail to start.
  • In an HNV environment, many duplicate Networking HNV policies are published, and this may cause high CPU usage during host refresh.
  • When you try to add a storage array to VMM when the value of the MaximumReplicasPerSourceClone property is greater than 32767 (for example, HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20000 Storage Array), you receive the following exception: System.OverflowException: Failed to convert parameter value from a UInt16 to a Int16.
  • When you add a new node to an HAVMM cluster and install Update Rollup 8 or later versions on the new node, you may receive the following exception:
    time:InnerException.Type: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException, InnerException.Message: Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint ‘PK_tbl_WLC_ServiceTemplate’. Cannot insert duplicate key in object ‘dbo.tbl_WLC_ServiceTemplate’. The duplicate key value is (5fddb85c-4ae5-4c8b-be83-9b2961a316dd). To fix it follow steps in the KB
  • The reinstallation of VMM Update Rollup 8 or a later update fails, and you receive the following error:
    time:InnerException.Type: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException, InnerException.Message: Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint ‘PK_tbl_WLC_ServiceTemplate’. Cannot insert duplicate key in object ‘dbo.tbl_WLC_ServiceTemplate’. The duplicate key value is (5fddb85c-4ae5-4c8b-be83-9b2961a316dd). To fix it, follow steps in the KB

Use the following links to get more information about fixed issues and new functionality brought by UR9:

Name LINK
Data Protection Manager https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3112306
Orchestrator https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3133705
Operations Manager https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3129774
Service Manager https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3129780
Service Provider Foundation https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3133705
Virtual Machine Manager https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3129784
WAP https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3129786
WAP Web Sites https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3129789