Building Clouds Blog - All Comments

re: Application Management – Underused Template Settings

Davey Rance — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:42:30 GMT

Great post and very useful.

It might be worthwhile updating the powershell that is being used to copy the data from the template to the custom attribute to the following.

Get-SCVMTemplate | where {$_.DomainJoinOrganizationalUnit -ne ""}| %{ Set-SCCustomPropertyValue -InputObject $_ -CustomProperty $(Get-SCCustomProperty -Name "OU") -Value $_.DomainJoinOrganizationalUnit };

This means that it will only update the templates where the domain is set. (So Workgroup templates won't get updated)

Davey

re: Deployment–PDT Workflow.xml 1004 now available

Rob Willis (MSFT) — Thu, 23 May 2013 05:02:13 GMT

You're right... not sure how that one got past me. I've updated the gallery posting with a new version that uses 76488. Thanks for pointing this out... I must get more sleep :-)

re: Deployment–PDT Workflow.xml 1004 now available

Joe Thompson — Thu, 23 May 2013 03:01:34 GMT

76488 is the file size I'm reading from the Microsoft.Windows.Server.Library.mp, the size in the new workflow is not working for me. I changed to 76488 and it validated.

another quirk I've found is downloader defaults to %systemdrive%\temp and installer assumes temp is on the same drive the installer script is run from.

Joe "I like to break stuff" Thompson

re: Deployment–Installing SQL clusters with PDT

Nick Hawkins — Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:45 GMT

Thanks Rob - I am posting a new comment because it will not let me reply to the previous. A coworker of min helped me out this morning and that is exactly what we found out.

Thank you for your response!

-Nick

re: Deployment–Installing SQL clusters with PDT

Rob Willis (MSFT) — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:28:52 GMT

This is due to an error in Workflow.xml. We will release an updated Workflow.xml that resolves this and a couple of other issues this week. In the meantime, you can delete lines 1309-1313 from Workflow.xml - this should be the <Switch> section under <Install Name="SQL Server 2012 Cluster Complete"> that specifies the PID switch.

re: Deployment–Installing SQL clusters with PDT

Nick Hawkins — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:23:33 GMT

HI -

We are using PDT to deploy VMM and a supporting SQL Server Cluster with a standard license. When we add the license to variable.xml we get the following error during the "SQL Server 2012 Cluster Complete" phase:

The setting 'PID' is not allowed when the value of setting 'ACTION' is 'CompleteFailoverCluster'

If we do not specify a product key the installation finishes however it installed in evaluation mode with the edition set to Enterprise, problem is I cannot downgrade an enterprise license to standard when its already clustered.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Nick

re: Automation–Orchestrator Integration Pack for PowerShell Script Execution

Charles Joy [MSFT] — Wed, 22 May 2013 14:42:36 GMT

Greg,

You are most certainly welcome!

The timeout stuff was something on my list, but no one had yet given me any evidence to support it wasn't working as expected. I added it in there in the beginning because I saw it was an option. Obviously it was not implemented properly. When I get some time I will take a look at the code and see what I can do.

Thanks again for all your assistance in testing and making this a better product for everyone!

And again, thanks for the very kind words. I will do my best to continue to improve on this and other offerings!

-Charles

re: Deployment–Introducing PowerShell Deployment Toolkit

Davey Rance — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:50:40 GMT

Hi Sky

Microsoft updated the windows MP a couple of weeks ago. As a result you will need to change the size in the workflow xml document.

you will need to update it to be this.

<File>Microsoft.Windows.Server.Library.mp</File>

Davey

re: Deployment–Introducing PowerShell Deployment Toolkit

Sky — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:17:05 GMT

I'm trying to get the Installer to run, I'm getting one error around System Center 2012 SP1 Management Packs - incorrect size for Microsoft.Windows.Server.Library.mp. I've attempted the one that was downloaded, also grabbed a copy from two different versions of System Center ISO's that I have (2012, 2012SP1), same issue.

Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue?

re: Deployment–PDT 2.4 is now available on the TechNet Gallery

Davey Rance — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:32:49 GMT

Hi Rob

For DPM we need to be able to install the VMM console so we can enable VM Mobility that came in with CU2. So this may be something that should possibly be added in as an integration step.

blogs.technet.com/.../sc-2012-sp1-dpm-windows-2012-vm-mobility-uninterrupted-data-protection.aspx

Davey