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Failure during Windows Server 2008 System State Backup & System Writer Missing
For some of those new to DPM 2007, you might find yourself in a situation where a Windows Server 2008 (and R2) is failing during backups consistently. The consistency part is the ironic is that it is always failing and might lead you to review a bit more Read More...
Unable to Extend System Volume & DPM Backup Failure: Change the System State backup location
I recently had a couple of servers where they had rather small system partitions, one was Windows 2003 while the other was Windows 2008 RTM and DPM continued to fail with replica is inconsistent errors.  The DPM documentation and event errors were Read More...
Data Protection Manager 2007: Replica is inconsistent on Windows Server 2008
I recently took some time to learn more about Microsoft’s System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 since it was again a product in my division that I knew very little about. Beyond that, I had quite a bit of incentive to get our engineering lab which Read More...
Virtualization Tip: Migrating to SAN’s “after the fact” with SCVMM using R2’s Migrate Storage
In today’s post, I thought I would share some insight into how to effectively migrate to Storage Area Network’s (SAN) after you’ve already got an SCVMM environment up and running.  You found yourself with several Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V hosts Read More...
Real World Example of Troubleshooting R2 Live Migration using CSV’s
As I’ve mentioned several times, we run our engineering lab on much of the latest & greatest.  There are many who would argue that this is a luxury (one afforded to those who work at a Software company such as Microsoft) and I wouldn’t have a Read More...
Dynamic Provisioning for ConfigMgr hits the Shelf – TechNet Magazine Sept 2009
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Dynamic Provisioning with VMM: Proxy, Windows Updates, and Scripts
In our environment, there are two things that are critical to success of an environment that is dynamically built from scratch – Updates & Internet connectivity. This might seem odd since most would believe that we would utilize WSUS & the Software Read More...
Using Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2’s Compatibility Mode
If you are like us, we are always on the cutting edge (what do you expect – we work for Microsoft <g>) and because of this we have to often find unusual methods to work around the fact that OEM’s are not always “up to speed” and releasing installers Read More...
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