SCOM 2007 R2: Twitter you alerts with SCOM 2007 R2
Today I read a very interesting article on the weblog of Walter Eikenboom. Walter is a dutch Guru on SCOM 2007 R2. All credits go to him of course. Posting to be found here
Windows 2008 Server-Core: Install Windows Updates
This evening I installed my Windows 2008 r2 Server Core Active directory server. After the installation I was looking for a simple script to search, download and install Windows Updates. I found the following script on the MSDN website of Microsoft. You can view the script here. I tested it on my brand new domain controller and it works...
SCVMM 2008 R2: Error adding Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V Server
Yesterday I installed my System Center Virtual Machine Manager. The installation was no problem. The first thing to do was to add my Hyper-V host, running on Windows 2008 R2, to the SCVMM server. Unfortunately there came an error. I got the following error:
Error (2916)
VMM is unable to complete the request. The connection to the agent server.contoso.com was lost.
(Unknown error (0x80338012))Recommended Action
Ensure that the WS-Management service and the agent are installed and running and that a firewall is not blocking HTTP traffic. If the error persists, reboot server.contoso.com and then try the operation again.
After googling the error I found many possible solutions but none of them worked. My last hit before I went to sleep was the good one. The solution for my problem was the following bug: The "Win32_Service" WMI class leaks memory in Windows Server 2008 R2 and in Windows 7. I installed the hotfix from the KB article and the problem was solved
Installing App-V Dashboard
Today I found a interesting article about the App-V Dashboard. With the dashboard you can show some interesting App-V Usage information through a graphical website. The following picture shows how users can use the Dashboard:
System Center Roadmap
At TechEd this week, Microsoft presented the Roadmap for the System Center products. The coming years will be the years of vNext versions... Very interesting. Currently SCCM vNext is in the phase of Beta 1. I am planning to install the beta in the next weeks.
Installing App-V 4.5 SP2 on 4.6 Management Server
This week Microsoft released App-V 4.5 SP2. The release notes introduced the following new functions:
- Support for Office 2010: App-V 4.5 SP2 now supports the virtualization of Microsoft Office 2010.
- Support for Database Mirroring: App-V 4.5 SP2 now supports Microsoft SQL Server Database Mirroring.
- Customer Feedback and Hotfix Rollup: App-V 4.5 SP2 also includes a rollup of fixes to address issues found after the App-V 4.5 SP1 release.
The support for database mirroring is a very interested new function. But how about database mirroring on my App-V 4.6 infrastructure. I looked at the version of my App-V 4.6 server, the version was 4.5.2.17140. So technically it's also possible to install the servicepack on my 4.6 infrastructure. I give it a try:
Error Installing KB974417 (.Net 2.0)
If you get the following error while installing KB974417 through WSUS:
Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x80070643: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 Security Update for Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP (KB974417).
I posted the solution which I found on the microsoft blogs and tested:
1. Remove KB976569
2. Install KB974417
3. Reinstall other .Net Updates
Servers not showing up in WSUS
Today I had some servers which weren't visible in WSUS. So I searched on the internet and found that the following steps will solve these problems:
1 . Delete the corresponding Reg Key's:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\AccountDomainSid HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\PingID HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\SusClientId
2. Restart the WSUS Client service:
net stop wuauserv net start wuauserv
3. Finally reset the WSUS settings and detect new updates:
wuauclt.exe /resetauthorization /detectnow
Migration WSUS database SQL2005 -> SQL2008
Today I installed my first Microsoft SQL 2008 server. I used Windows 2008 R2 as the underlaying OS. The installation was no problem so I decided to start with the migration of one of my SQL2005 Databases, the WSUS Database.
How System Center Helps Reduce IT Costs
Today I found this very interesting video on the micrsoft website:
In this video, Jeff Wettlaufer begins to ramp up what will be happening at the Microsoft Management Summit this year in a chat with Brad Anderson, GM of the Management Services Division. They talk about System Center's role in reducing IT infrastructure costs and touch on desktop and server optimization, referring to some key documents that can be found on the Microsoft Core Infrastructure Optimization Web site (check it out!).
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