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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Admin tools for Windows 7 (RC). Windows 7 rocks so far. I just got to the point where I decided to install the admin tools though. Installing Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 RC You must be either a member of the Administrators group on the computer on which you want to install the [...]
Evidently, Windows Server 2003, running on Hyper-V, is confused and thinks it must be time traveling. Read below for the details… (Event ID 1054) Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your computer network. (An unexpected network error occurred.). Group Policy processing aborted. The customer explained to us that if he removes one of [...]
Recently I attended the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas. One of the big pushes that is on the minds of everyone these days, is the Cloud Computing concept. As a Systems Engineer, the thought is that I should be afraid of this push, because it moves the processing out of the datacenter and into [...]
You would think that a company like Microsoft could come up with a better answer for a search on an error than: We’re sorry There is no additional information about this issue in the Error and Event Log Messages or Knowledge Base databases at this time. You can use the links in the Support area [...]
I have been trying to get a P2V of a production system to use in our DR plan. I have limited opportunity to do this, because I am not allowed to impact performance during production hours for this system, and the definition of production hours is fairly broad. I have been trying for a couple [...]
I have been using DPM for about 7 months now. (I tested with it for a few months before that.) I never installed 2006, but 2007 seems to be working ok. I have a few complaints, but I have complaints about all the backup software that I have ever used. None of it really makes [...]