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SCCM 2012 Client Updates – Waiting to Install
Today I prepared a new notebook and after joining it to the domain the SCCM client automatically installed as it should. However after the install and reboot all updates that were needed and available pulled correctly to the client however the updates were stuck in...
Windows 7 & Outlook 2007/2010 Password Prompts
Since the upgrade of Exchange 2010 from SP2 to SP3 and running office 2010 x64 on Windows 7 x64 I notice that outlook keeps prompting a handfull of users for their username and passwords. Some of the culprits I have picked up are as follows: Windows 7 Credential...
SCCM 2012 SP1 Upgrade SQL Error
Today I ran the SP1 upgrade for SCCM 2012. The first thing you come across is that you need ADK installed for SP1. The download is around 4GB, the first error I came across was when ADK was about 61% done, it failed with an error, user not currently allocated. I...
DPM 2012 Error ID 53
Today I installed a new DPM 2012 server. The installation went through fine and all backups were running well until the upgrade to SP1. Seems like a small bug as all my replica's were inconsistent after applying the upgrade. I uninstalled the DPM Agent, rebooted the...
SCCM 2012 Client stuck at 0% when downloading updates
Today I came across all servers and clients in my organization not downloading windows updates from SCCM 2012. There was about 17 updates and all stuck on 0%. I changed the boundary settings on the SCCM server from AD to IP subnet, removed all the updates that were...
One or more prerequisites for protecting this data source is missing – Windows 2003 & DPM System State Backups
If you want to protect a Server running Windows 2003 SP2 or SBS you need to ensure that the correct KB is applied as you will get the following error when trying to select a source. One or more prerequisites for protecting this data source is missing. Ensure that the...
DPM Replica is inconsistent on Windows Server 2012 DC backup
Today I moved my DC System State backups to DPM 2012. After running the first initial sync the status goes to a green OK and then immediately to a red "replica is inconsistent". Made sure that space was not an issue as this can cause problems but the servers had ample...
DPM 2012 & ESEUTIL for Exchange 2010
Having multiple sites I look after and having Exchange 2010 running in each site the last thing you want to do is backup a corrupted Exchange 2010 Database. The nice thing with DPM is that you can run ESEUTIL and this ensures that everything on the Database is in a...
Upgrading DPM 2012 Beta to DPM 2012 RTM
Today I downloaded DPM 2012 SP1. I ran the installation only to find out that DPM 2012 installed was the BETA version, you can check the version number here:...
Exchange 2010 SP2 and Anti-Virus
Today I installed a new Anti-Virus product on my Exchange Servers, ESET. The nice thing with ESET is that it automatically sets exclusions as it detects what is installed, so on my servers Exchange, IIS and Windows Server exclusions were set. However, Microsoft...