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Release Notes for Service Provider Foundation

Updated: January 15, 2013

Applies To: System Center 2012 SP1 - Orchestrator

These release notes apply to Service Provider Foundation, a component of System Center 2012 - Orchestrator. They contain up-to-date information about known issues that you might experience.

For release notes that pertain to the Service Provider Foundation software development kit (SDK), see the Release Notes for Service Provider Foundation SDK.

Known Issues

Installation fails on a computer with only IPv6 enabled

Description: Installation of Service Provider Foundation fails on a computer that has only IPv6 enabled for the network adapters.

Workaround: Enable IPv4.

You cannot move a virtual machine across clouds

Description: Service Provider Foundation cannot accommodate moving a virtual machine from one cloud to another.

Workaround: None. This is a known limitation.

A new virtual machine is unusable if it is created without a guest operating system

Description: You can create a new virtual machine from a template by using a blank virtual hard disk (VHD). However, a 13206 error appears in the summary page. The virtual machine will be unusable if it is created with a VHD that contains no guest operating system.

Workaround: Create the virtual machine with a guest operating system.

Creating a virtual disk drive from a large VHD results in timeout exceptions

Description: Sporadic timeout exceptions might occur when you are creating a virtual disk drive with a large VHD.

Workaround: Retry the operation.

Creation of a user role fails occasionally

Description: In attempting to create a new user role on a second Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) server, the administrator user role might be unable to create a new user role, because the attempt is treated as an accidental impersonation.

Workaround: Recycle the VMM application pool.

An endpoint was registered successfully, but it cannot be registered as a Virtual Machine Cloud Provider

Description: Service Provider Foundation has been successfully installed, the endpoint can be accessed, but the service will not register as a Virtual Machine Cloud Provider.

Workaround: Copy the required files to the Service Provider Foundation endpoint website.

Updating a tenant to a new issuer and key does not work

Description: If you create a tenant with a specified key and issuer name and then update that same tenant (such as by using the Set-SCSPFTenant cmdlet) to a new key and issuer name, the new key for the tenant will not be updated in the database.

Workaround: Recreate the tenant as shown in the following example.

PS C:\> $tenant = Get-SCSPFTenant -Name "TenantToFix"
PS C:\> $issuerName = (Get-SCSPFTrustedIssuer -Tenant $tenant).Name
PS C:\> $stamps = Get-SCSPFStamp -Tenant $tenant
PS C:\> $userroles = Get-SCSPFTenantUserRole -Tenant $tenant | Select-Object Name
PS C:\> Remove-SCSPFTenant -Tenant $tenant
PS C:\> $tenant2 = New-SCSPFTenant -Name "FixedTenant" -IssuerName $issuerName -Key $key2 -Stamps $stamps
PS C:\> $userroles | foreach {New-SCSPFTenantUserRole -Tenant $tenant2 -Name $_.Name}