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SCVMM 2012 SP1 Migration Error
I have a host grouping of several nearly-identical host machines running WS08R2 SP1. They are all running direct-attached storage of different sizes/raid types. They were running VMM08R2, but I've ...
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Creating a Windows VPS solution [closed]
I got the assignment of putting up a VPS solution for my boss. I would have prefered KVM and libvrt. But he is adamant about using Hyper-V unless i can come up with some really good arguments. The ...
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Can I run SCVMM 2012 and SCDPM 2012 on the same server?
We have a small environment where a dedicated System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 server is used to back up everything; the server has no performance problems and plenty of hardware resources ...
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System Center 2012 Protection Agent remote install failed
I have two servers I want to protect with System Center 2012. There might be some hardware differences but they are otherwise equal:
Same domain as the DPM server
Fresh Windows Server 2012 ...
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How do I find the HKLM Registry Key of a Server Role for use in SCOM
I am learning to use SCOM in order to develop a SCOM pack. The only usable tool I have found (yet) to develop a pack is Visio (with the management pack designer).
I managed to create a pack that ...
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SQL Server Collation settings for System Center Service Manager 2012
There is a lot of conflicting or confusing information surrounding the required collation settings for SQL Server, as it pertains to hosting the SCSM 2012 database and associated data warehouse ...
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ConfigMgr 2012 - How to automatically make updates available to computers without forcing them to be installed?
I'm using System Center Configuration Manager 2012 with the Software Update Point feature; however, in this environment patching has to be strictly manual, because server reboots need to be approved ...
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Tool to monitor for success or failure within a given amount of time
My team is trying to solve a monitor challenge when it comes to backups.
The backup is running fine. Our current challenge is to monitor these backups so that they actualy do happen.
We can send a ...
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Systems Center service template including AD
I'm trying to design an SCVMM (2012 SP1) service template that contains several machines joined in a domain, but the trick is that the very domain controller is also in the template. Ie. the template ...
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Why is Configuration Manager 2012 creating a SMSPKG folder on my C: drive?
I'm testing System Center Configuration Manager 2012, and I installed it on a server with two disks (using a SQL Server instance on a second server). Before installing, I created a file called ...
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System Center Configuration Manger 2012 SP1 PXE boot
I am trying to set up my System Center Configuration manager server to be a PXE server for client deployments but I am having no luck in getting it to work. It seems to bypass SCCM and boot right ...
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Cloud Monitoring Software for Windows Server 2008 R2
I am using a group of Windows 2008 R2 servers to host a web application. I want a monitoring system which notifies me when certain problems occur. In particular, I have an immediate need for ...
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SCCM 2007 + FEP 2010 deployment - when can I upgrade sql server?
I am in the process of migrating our forefront client security installation on the domain over to a forefront endpoint protection based on system center configuration manager 2007 platform.
I have ...
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SCOM 2007 Active Directory attribute discovery
I am trying to create a group in SCOM 2007 R2 based on the AD attribute DS_managedBy from a WMI query. I currently have a discovery that returns a list of all computer objects and the "managed by" ...
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How to query SCCM for all collections that a user is a member of?
We will shortly be moving all our user accounts to a new domain, as part of this the user accounts will pick up new SMS ResourceIDs in SCCM.
What I need to do is to query SCCM for all collections ...
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System Center Cubes are processing too often
I am a DBA, and my network admin just introduced me to a new SQL database server that we use for System Center implementation.. I believe that we use Operations Manager, SMS.. we use a handful of ...
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System Center 2012 VMM UI is very slow
I've recently setup system center 2012 a new server 2008 r2 server which I'm using for virtual machines. Everything seems to be working fine, and the virtual machines are nice and fast.
But the ...
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PXE-T04 System Center Configuration Manager 2012 PXE Boot Error
I am trying to configure SCCM to provide PXE boot on our network, but when I boot up a machine and attempt to boot via network I get the following series of errors:
PXE-T04 Access Violation
PXE-E36 ...
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Syntax for file and process exclusions in Forefront Endpoint Protection?
I can't seem to find an official and up-to-date documentation on how to set up file and process exclusions in Forefront Endpoint Protection 2012.
For file types, which of these will work? Are they ...
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VMM 2012 Adding Hosts in Trusted Forest
I have two forests with a two way trust between them. VMM 2012 sits in ForestA and I can discover hosts in ForestA with no issue. When I try to discover hosts in ForestB I hit one of two issues:
If ...
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System Center VMM 2012 network config
Since we have upgrade System Center Virtual Machine Manager from 2008 to 2012, we are having sporadic network outages. During such an outage, redirected access to our Cluster Shared Volumes isn't ...
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SCOM vs. Windows System Center vs. HP Operations Manager
(I asked this question over on Stack Overflow and they sent me here. Sorry for the very basic question, but I have purely coding experience - no server management stuff at all - and this is ...
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SCCM cannot connect to SQL
I'm trying to install SCCM on my machine, but for some reason, I get this error:
I think I've tried everything listed in the tutorials...
I restarted my SQL-service
My account is a sysadmin
I'm ...
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Are there complete System Center Configuration Manager alternatives?
I have been researching System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 SP2 and struggling to swallow the SCCM pill. The tool seems outdated and not well equipped for managing an environment with the ...
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Change source address on discovery of network devices in System Center Operations Manager 2012
My SCOM server has two network cards. One is normal network while the other is connected to the "switch" VLAN. If I try discovering network devices in SCOM I get "No Response Ping", no matter which ...
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Why does co-locating data use so much storage space?
I'm currently evaluating Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2010.
When creating a new protection group, I can select to co-locate the client data in the storage pool.
Now, the ...
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case-insensitive SCOM Rule expression
I have a Rule watching the Application Log for Event 17137 (database starting up). A minor annoyance is that, whenever an instance is failed over, we see alerts fire from both the node and the ...
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Microsoft Data Protection Manager and Hyper-V on Server Core?
I'm trying to determine if Microsoft Data Protection Manager will function on a Hyper-V host running Windows 2008 R2 Server Core. I've found this document in the documentation, but it still unclear ...
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Run Microsoft SCCM Remote Control Viewer on Client Machines?
I've install SCCM 2012 on a server and have successfully used the Remote Control option to take control of a system I've setup to be managed by SCCM. Now, I don't want to have to log in to a server ...
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Two-state script monitor not auto-resolving in SCOM
This script runs, and if it returns 'erro' an alert is generated in SCOM. The alert is set to resolve when the monitor returns to healthy state. I have tested the script with cscript and it returns ...
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Cannot get SCVMM Admin Console to Connect to Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
I cannot get SCVMM Admin console to connect to Hyper-V Server 2008. I have changed all firewall settings on the server to allow for a connection, I have even tried turning the firewall off completely. ...
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System Center Configuration Manager clients SMS_R_System.Client = 0
I have a query in system center configuration manager to list all the machines in my network which SCCM client is installed.
I use SMS_R_System.Client = 1 as the criteria.
I recently noticed that my ...
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system center operations manager (SCOM) role combinations
We are evaluating system center operations manager 2007 R2 product, and would like to know what all roles can be combined onto single server.
Like root management server and reporting servers can be ...
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Minimizing downtime when migrating a Hyper-V host without purchasing SCVMM
We have a small organization, with two Hyper-V R2 hosts. We're adding a third host, and will need to migrate some VMs from one of the existing hosts onto the new host. The idea is to replace the ...
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migrating from SCE to SCCM+SCOM
I'm planning to migrate from System Center Essentials 2010 to Configuration Manager and Operations Manager. I know a lot about the first, little about the latter two, so before I start digging into ...
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SCVMM Installation Requirements for a Hyper-V Environment
I have 3 hosts (+1 for management with windows 7) and I would like to implement virtualisation on the Hyper-V platform. I downloaded Hyper-V Server 2008 R2.
Can the SCVMM be installed on windows 7 ...
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Why are these migrated user profiles being left in a subfolder?
When performing a user state migration from a Windows XP computer to a Windows 7 computer, destination profiles are not properly restored. As far as I can tell from log files the operation was ...
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System Center + ForeFront Endpoint Protection for medium-sized organization
My organization is unhappy with our current antivirus/antimalware solution and are looking to make a change. The organization consists of two sites, one with about 80 clients and one with about 30. ...
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What's are some good tools for managing Hyper-V vms?
It's really lame that the default Hyper-V manager doesn't include an automated clone process. So I got all excited when I found that System Center Virtual Machine Manager does and it's free through my ...
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System Center Deployment
I've been looking for a way to update third-party software on my client computers for a while. I want to do some monitoring, push Windows updates for my client computers and push updates for things ...
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Can the same Hyper-V hosts be added to multiple servers running System Center Virtual Machine Manager?
I have 2 Hyper-V host servers. One of the hosts is running a guest that runs the current existing System Center Virtual Machine Manager instance for my virtualization setup.
I now have an external ...
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How to execute a dos command on multiple active directory computers?
I need to uninstall the system center agent applications from all the computers in an active directory. Unfortunately I do not have the system center install/machine to do this, so I am hoping I can ...
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System Center Essentials server running out of disk space due to stored old updates
We have a System Center Essentials (SCE) server to filter updates to our laptops. We've configured it to download the update, and then the laptops get the update from this server; this of course ...
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Can you automatically join a guest machine to AD using System Center Virtual Machine Manager?
We're building an automated QA enviroment for our dev team using SCVMM and I was wondering if there's an easy way to add guest machines to AD from withing SCVMM.
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Uninstalling system center 2007 result on clients
Will the installed software (Office etc.) be removed from client computers when I uninstall System Center Server 2007 (which deployed the software to them)?
I don't want all of the deployed software ...
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SCCM for mobile device management returns 404 on /devicemgmt/server.resource
We have a new Windows Server 2008 R2 machine onto which we have installed SCCM SP2 followed by the R2 package.
We have enabled a mobile device management point and enabled distribution points to ...
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system center configuration manager
I have a colleague that is looking for help with the following situation. If anyone can be of assistance, it would be appreciated. Thanks.
From his email:
A couple of months ago, the admin spent ...
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SCCM: Add one machine explicitly
I have just started implementing SCCM 2007, and would like to test it out on only one machine. I believe I have set the boundaries correctly, but am having trouble with the Discovery methods to ...
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Can Windows Server intercept SNMP and write to the event log?
We have a software package that can speak SNMP when things go awry. Currently, we're using Tivoli to monitor SNMP and send out alerts as needed. We've been informed that our Tivoli installation is ...
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Resources for the accidental DBA
Within the Microsoft platform, most of the enterprise level programs (SharePoint, any of the System Center apps, any of the Dyamics apps, etc) all run on top of SQL Server. For administrators of ...
