Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category

TechNet wiki… (2010-2-24)

So a TechNet wiki is coming, as stated by Keith Combs here:
three big things we focus on for all TechNet scenarios are Content, Discoverability, and Participation. We really want to invite participation from everyone and what better way to combine that with discovery and content than to use Wiki technology?
Later this year TechNet and the Server [...]

Influencers Blog (2010-2-8)

So the System Center guys have provided a place for people who work with System Center products to see a conglomeration of posts from various professionals who have registered to Blog about System Center products.  How fun…

Blog Posts by System Center Influencers

Get the feed.
Below are the most recent posts from several of the members of [...]

An online pack already exists… (2010-1-21)

Situation:  I have a 32bit file server running Windows Server 2003.  I have a new 2008 R2 (x64) file server running on Hyper-V.  Did I mention that the R2 server is on Clustered hosts?
This is all simple.  Just drop the LUNs from the file server, give them to the cluster and assign them as pass [...]

Error installing Integration Services on Hyper-V VM (2009-11-19)

I was trying to change from a “Legacy Network Adapter” to a “Network Adapter” on one of my Hyper-V VMs.   I added the “Network Adapter” and removed the “Legacy Network Adapter”, and started the machine up.  When the machine came up, it wouldn’t connect to the network.  Having seen this before I knew exactly how [...]

Error installing DPM 2010 Beta (2009-11-17)

I was installing the DPM 2010 Beta (finally) and had an issue trying to get the SQL 2008 to install.  Finally figured out that I had the install files stored too deeply in a network share.  I figure this out by running the SQL install directly and when it when to check prereq’s it had [...]

Data Protection Manager 2010 (2009-10-13)

So I am a bit late realizing this, but the Beta for DPM 2010 is available now on the Connect site.  I haven’t read anything on it yet, so mainly I am just posting this to make myself look into it.
https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?SiteID=840&DownloadID=22070

Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 (2009-8-12)

As a follow up to my earlier post about the Remote server Administration Tools for the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC), I thought I would post a link to the RTM version.  It took a bit to find it.  A search on Microsoft’s site wasn’t helpful to me.  I finally found a reference on Ben’s [...]

Temporary Registry Profiles – Finally an answer (2009-8-11)

We have been having issues at work for a while where a user gets “cannot load the locally stored profile” and a temporary profile is created.  It gets to be quite frustrating for the users because each time they log in they lose any settings that they have made.  Apparently, we arent’ the only company [...]

Follow up to the DPM recovery point expiration issues (2009-8-7)

Previously, I blogged about issues I was having where old recovery points were not being expired/removed from my DPM servers.  I had to open a ticket with Microsoft, and worked with them to determine the cause, and since then, they have released a fix.
The fix that Microsoft developed is here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=aee949aa-d3e7-4b0f-b718-00b7c20f1257&displayLang=en
A few people have asked [...]

Hyper-V and DPM – Some issues that you may see (2009-8-3)

We have several (15 or so) Hyper-V hosts running a number (126 or so) guests.  We use DPM to backup our servers, but only a few of our VMs are backed up at the host level.  Most are backed up as regular clients.  I have been having trouble with a couple of the ones that [...]