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Needles in a Haystack: DisableLoopbackCheck – Failed Installation of OpsMgr 2012 SP1 Databases and Reporting with Server 2012 and SQL 2012 SP1 over Hyper-V and ESX 5.1 (E1000E vs. VMXNET3 Networking)

Recap of situation: Failed Installation of OpsMgr 2012 SP1 on Server 2012 and SQL 2012 SP1 over Hyper-V and ESX 5.1 (E1000E vs. VMXNET3 Networking) This started becoming a real problem when I found the System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1 Installation could not complete successfully in an all-in-one or remote DB\Reporting (SSRS)configuration.  The installation…

ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 Upgrade Guide

There has definitely been a lot of hoopla around Service Pack (SP) 1 for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr). From lots of failures actually caused by certain, over-zealous anti-virus/security products to the fact the SP1 adds a lot of new features. All in all SP1 is a massive upgrade that also includes many new…