Microsoft Hyper-V VMMS & System services stop after December 2012 Updates (KB2506143)

I had an issue recently with some Hyper-V servers where it was noticed that the Hyper-V system services (VMMS, VHDSVC & NVSPWMI) gets stopped all in a sudden and no one can access or manage the Hyper-V Virtual machines from the console as per attached image.I noticed that these services stop on specific time on daily basis, after several investigations it was related to a specific rule/job based on WMI (CCMEVAL) that runs from the System Center...

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Increasing SCCM 2012 Add/Remove Programs Simple Query Value

We passed by this issue with one of our new System Center configuration Manager SCCM 2012 installations when trying to create a new device collection with the Add/Remove Programs used in the Query. The List of programs was limited till applications starting with the "M" Letter and other applications weren't displayed as shown below.I recall we passed by this issue in SCCM 2007 and we had to add the Valuelimit registry key and looks like its not fixed...

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