January 2009 - Posts

• Installation of DPM 2007 Sp1 went fine but did require a consistency check

  This post is written by Ilse Van Criekinge from Pro-Exchange.be Being anxious to get my hands on Service Pack 1 for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007, I was very happy to see it is available for download now @ Microsoft. After reading the installation guidelines, I went ahead and updated my test environment. Since I have one DPM server, and I'm running running the SQL DPMDB instance on the Data Protection Manager 2007 server itself, I only needed to download and run the DataProtectionManager2007-KB959605.exe on the DPM server. After double-clicking the exe file, the installation of Visual C++ Redistributable is launched.           After finishing the installation of this Visual C++ redistributable, the setup of service pack 1 really kicks off:     Setup does warn you that any jobs in progress or the ones that will start during the installation process will fail. The installation procedure will also backup the DPM database. The warning that the process may take several hours can be ignored by me since I'm only using this DPM server to backup my Exchange environment. I accept the License agreement:   And start the installation:   To finish the update process I will need to restart the DPM server, as stated clearly when the installation of Service Pack is done:   After rebooting the DPM Server, it is clear that I don't have any other choice than to update the agents on my protected Exchange servers as well. DPM warns you that updating the agent may cause the need to schedule a consistency check after the upgrade: And DPM shows that the agent status is now ok:   But a look at the protection group soon reveals that a consistency check is needed:     Which I manually initiated immediately:     And after a few minutes of waiting, everything worked out fine:     So, installation went fine (even though rebooting both the DPM server and the protected Exchange server was required), and I had to perform a consistency check after updating the agents, but everything looks good now :-) Time to test the protecting of a SCR target now, but that's for a next post ;-) Please note, we have been forced to disable the ability to post comments, due to comment spammers. If you have a comment about this post or any other, don't hesitate to send me a mail @ ilse.vancriekinge[@]pro-exchange.be - Ilse   This post is written by Ilse Van Criekinge from Pro-Exchange.be Posted Jan 29 2009, 05:05 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: DPM 2007, SCDPM 2007, exchange 2007, Data Protection Manager 2007, pro-exchange

• TechDays 2009 Highlights

  Join us for the TechDays 2009 Join us on March 10-12, 09 for the most important ITPro & Developer event organized by Microsoft in Belux. Book your visit today. TechNet Plus for 6 months for first 250 attendees of TechDays preconference Be one of the first 250 attendees of the WS2008 R2 preconference and get TechNet Plus for 6 months. Windows Server 2008 R2 is Microsoft's next generation server platform. The platform is currently entering the initial beta-release phase. This event represents...(read more) Posted Jan 29 2009, 02:39 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: Events, General, techdays

• New Management Pack: VMM 2008 Management Pack

  Microsoft has just released the management pack where I was waiting for… It can be downloaded @ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d6d5cddd-4ec8-4e3c-8ab1-102ec99c257f&displaylang=en Overview The VMM 2008 Management Pack monitors virtual machines running on Hyper-V, Microsoft Virtual Server, and VMware ESX Server hosts that VMM is managing, as well as the managed virtual machine hosts, library servers, and other VMM components. Feature Summary This management pack is tightly...(read more) Posted Jan 29 2009, 01:12 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: Management Packs

• System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Management Pack for Opsmgr 2007

  Finally the SCVMM MP for Opsmgr 2007 with REPORTS is released!! Brief Description The System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 monitors availability of all components of VMM 2008 and the availability, health, and performance of all virtual machines and virtual machine hosts that VMM manages. Overview The VMM 2008 Management Pack monitors virtual machines running on Hyper-V, Microsoft Virtual Server, and VMware ESX Server hosts that...(read more) Posted Jan 29 2009, 02:57 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: Operations Manager 2007, scom, opsmgr, Management Pack, SCVMM

• New Configuration Manager Knowledge Base articles

  KB960065 - Updates are not deployed to some clients when you use WSUS or SUM to deploy updates in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL EN-US KB957255 - The wake-on-LAN (WOL) feature in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 wakes clients one hour earlier than expected Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL EN-US KB960741 - The SMS_Executive service process crashes on a Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 site server when you use Intel...(read more) Posted Jan 28 2009, 03:25 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: configmgr, sccm, smsv4, SCCM 2007, sms v4, configmgr2007, sccm2007, Configmgr 2007, SQL

• Jalasoft: Adding a Linux Device

  One of the issues most asked by customers is to monitor linux servers. (We hardly can’t wait for R2 RTM of OpsMgr ;-). In the meantime, we install JalaSoft Xian Io for OpsMgr 2007. In this post, I’ll show you how to add a Linux server. 1) Install the Linux RPM package on the specific server. To start, you need to get the package to that server. Because many Linux servers don’t have a gui, and the sources for the installation are located on the SCOM server, I need to have the ability to copy the RPM...(read more) Posted Jan 28 2009, 11:16 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: Jalasoft

• Handy Hotfix

  Kevin Holman wrote a great blog about an interesting new patch for all our SCOM SP1 environments. It’s about a bug that you get when you view the patch list of the agents in your environment. This hotfix will fix the formatting for this list and solve the 255 character limit in that table. More information on Kevin’s blog: http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2009/01/27/new-opsmgr-hotfix-958253-fixes-patchlist-table-view-for-agent-hotfixes.aspx And the hotfix can be found @ http://support...(read more) Posted Jan 28 2009, 09:15 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: Hotfixes

• Alert: Windows 2000 DNS WMI provider not installed

  In the Alert description, I read the following: Windows 2000 DNS WMI Provider not installed. The Windows 2000 DNS WMI Provider must be installed on xxx.xxx.xxx to be fully managed by MOM. Obtain the DNS WMI Provider for Windows 2000 from the Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit, or from the following location: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/reskit/win2000/dnsprov.zip So I figured, let’s listen for once ;-) and try this out. I downloaded the package and extracted it on the harddrive of that server. According...(read more) Posted Jan 28 2009, 08:33 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: Alerts

• Scheduled reports, Link does not work

  I’m working for the moment with a client and this client wanted me to create very, very, very long reports. They wanted it scheduled each month so that one of their people can print out the report, take a coffee and can start analyzing the report. So I created the reports, published them and scheduled them. A few days later, the client called me and said that the reports are ok, but the link that came with the reports showed following error when clicking on it: So I started to search why this problem...(read more) Posted Jan 28 2009, 08:00 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: Troubleshooting

• Alert : Check out the MSCommunity.be landing page

  MSCommunity.be is the landing page for the Belgian Microsoft community. The purpose of this site is giving you an overview of all the events being organized by the Belgian usergroups so you'll never miss out on an event anymore. You can't register for events on MSCommunity, registration remains on the different usergroup sites. For usergroups themselves, MSCommunity will come in handy when planning new events.     Grtz, Alexandre Vekrinderen...(read more) Posted Jan 26 2009, 05:14 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: Events, General, MSCommunity

• Opsmgr Service Level Dashboard for Exchange 2007

  It is possible to create custom reports for Exchange 2007 using the Service Level Dashboard Solution Accelerator and the Exchange 2007 Management Pack. The Opsmgr Team made a nice guide on how to make a Service Level Dashboard for Exchange. But you have to change the Monitor dependency of the distributed applications otherwise the Health wouldn't rolling up. 1. In the monitoring section of the console, under “Distributed Applications”, right-click on the “Exchange 2007 Server Availability” distributed...(read more) Posted Jan 23 2009, 09:31 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: Operations Manager 2007, scom, opsmgr, Issue, service level dashboard

• App-V 4.5 Hotfix (KB959834) Package is released!

  The following issues are fixed in the Hotfix package: Empty virtual directories may become inaccessible. When you try to run ArcGIS as a virtual application, ArcGIS may stop responding on some systems. When you use Symantec Endpoint Protection, and the Application and Device Control feature is enabled, virtual applications may not start and may generate the following error message: The application failed to initialize properly (0xc000007b) When you try to run SmarTerm Essentials as a virtual application...(read more) Posted Jan 23 2009, 05:34 AM by SCUG.be

• SCE 2007 SP1 : Client performance issues and pure frustration !

  I did a clean install SCE 2007 with SP1 and deployed the agent to all our clients @ our customer.After a while 90% of our client infrastructure were reporting very slow performance (read icons disappearing from the desktop and no change to hit task manager). People getting mad all over the place ( 150 clients) . After doing some searching I removed all the Information Worker management packs. No change at all after doing this! I investigated even more and was thinking that it could be the Mcafee...(read more) Posted Jan 16 2009, 04:24 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: AdminUi, script, Essentials, SCE

• SCE 2007 SP1 Network Discovery Process Never Finishes - SQL Broker must be enabled

  Today we ran into a hair-tearing problem while implementing SCE SP1 at a client... After successfully installing and configuring SCE 2007 SP1, we ran the Discovery process (Computer and Device Management Wizard) but it seemed to want to run forever and ever. Event viewer showed numerous 'RPC server unavailable' errors for the Health Service Modules. After some investigation, we found the issue may be due to SQL Service Broker being disabled. To solve this, please check the following steps...(read more) Posted Jan 13 2009, 07:28 AM by SCUG.be

• Error message when you install SQL Server 2005: “There was an unexpected failure during the setup wizard” - Error 1603.

  Today I ran into some serious trouble at a customer . I had to install SQL server 2005 for a System Center Essentials installation.Every time I installed the SQL server it just would quit with a funny error : “There was an unexpected failure during the setup wizard”. What the hell ? Doing some investigation , it seems to be a know bug when your sources aren't coming from the original CD's.If you are downloading them from the MVLS site , you will run into this issue one day . This problem...(read more) Posted Jan 12 2009, 08:17 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: SQL