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Failure during Windows Server 2008 System State Backup & System Writer Missing

Chris Adams — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:35:20 GMT

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)

Deploying Windows 7 in the Enterprise – A Blueprint for Success

Chris Adams — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:28:58 GMT

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Unable to Extend System Volume & DPM Backup Failure: Change the System State backup location

Chris Adams — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:44:51 GMT

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

Chris Adams — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:41:40 GMT

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)

Adding IIS Host Headers in DNS using Netdom utliity

Chris Adams — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:47:06 GMT

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Failover Cluster Snafu – Forcibly removing Failover Cluster Feature after Cluster Failure

Chris Adams — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:34:28 GMT

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Differencing Disks & Merging: 80070005 Error … Just one persons Lesson Learned!

Chris Adams — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:53:36 GMT

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[Info] – SCVMM R2 Documentation Live on the Web

Chris Adams — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:51:00 GMT

As you can tell, I’m pretty active in following one of my favorite HOT products released by my division here at Microsoft – System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). VMM 2008 R2 was recently released and with it comes some exciting new capabilities...(read more)

Virtualization Tip: Migrating to SAN’s “after the fact” with SCVMM using R2’s Migrate Storage

Chris Adams — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:30:00 GMT

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

Chris Adams — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:30:00 GMT

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

Chris Adams — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:54:00 GMT

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Fighting Hyper-V Physical Host Time Drift – Utilizing NTP to Synchronize Clocks

Chris Adams — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:29:44 GMT

My team at Microsoft has an engineering lab, one of which, I’ve spent a lot of time designing and building that provides our team some robustness. We run our own “mini” lab for our engineering purposes that runs very much like a large number of...(read more)

Dynamic Provisioning with VMM: Proxy, Windows Updates, and Scripts

Chris Adams — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:23:00 GMT

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)

Configuring Servers for deployment as a Configuration Manager Distribution Point (DP)

Chris Adams — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:45:49 GMT

In order to go from nothing to a finished, completed installation of a System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) client services role such as a Distribution Point (DP) requires that an administrator configures the future DP server automatically. ...(read more)

Building a “Sample” SCOM Management Pack for Dynamically Building Virtual Machines based on Performance of physical or virtual machines

Chris Adams — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:59:00 GMT

In today’s post, I will focus on how I worked with our System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) team to build the actual infrastructure and setup alerting for our infrastructure to ensure that if our Configuration Manager Distribution Points (DPs) are...(read more)