Product Category for System Center in WSUS

New product family to your WSUS server today – System Center. The System Center product family will contain updates for versions 2012 and higher of System Center products, which include System Center 2012, a product that combines components such as:

• Operations Manager
• Configuration Manager
• Data Protection Manager
• Service Manager
• Virtual Machine Manager
• Endpoint Protection
• Orchestrator
• App Controller

The System Center product family will allow a variety of update types, e.g. service packs, optional updates, critical updates, and security updates. System Center updates will also be available in the Microsoft Update Catalog at http://catalog.update.microsoft.com.

You will see new product categories appear under the System Center product family as new updates are available for each product or product component. The first product category to be added will be System Center Advisor. For additional information about System Center Advisor, see http://www.SystemCenterAdvisor.com/.

We encourage you to synchronize the System Center product family if you are planning to deploy System Center 2012, either through upgrades or new licenses, or if you already have System Center 2012 products in your managed environment. For additional information about System Center 2012, see http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/system-center/default.aspx.

Error installing SCCM MP Point in domain controller...

 

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.

2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\IISADMIN

3. In the right pane, right-click DependOnService, and then click Modify.

4. In the Edit Multi-String dialog box, type Netlogon in the Value data box, and then press ENTER.

5. In the Value data box, type DNS, and then press ENTER. The contents of the Value data box appear as follows:

RPCSS
SamSS
Netlogon
DNS

6. Click OK, and then exit Registry Editor.

Active Directory Health Checks for Domain Controllers

 

The Event Viewer is always a must to checked.

Dcdiag.exe /v >> c:\temp\pre_dcdiag.txt
Will tell you if there is trouble with your DCs and/or services associated with it .

Netdiag.exe /v >> c:\temp\pre_Netdiag.txt
This will let me know if there are issues with the networking components on the DC. 

Netsh dhcp show server >> c:\temp\pre_dhcp.txt
This allows to verify the server count and names.

Repadmin /showreps >> c:\temp\pre_rep_partners.txt
This shows all replication and if it was successful or not. 

repadmin /replsum /errorsonly >> c:\temp\pre_repadmin_err.txt
This is the one that always takes forever but will let you know who you are having issues replicating with.

SCCM Task Sequence fails

 

The execution of the group (Capture Files and Settings) has failed and the execution has been aborted. An action failed.

Remove KB974571 and advertise the task Sequence again..

Hyper-V: Using Hyper-V and Failover Clustering

 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732181(WS.10).aspx

Restoring Single Mail in Exchange 2007 using Microsoft DPM 2010 Beta

 

Restoring Single Mail in Exchange 2007 using Microsoft DPM 2010 Beta

v Create Recovery Storage Group

Open the Exchange MMC go to toolbox, Database Recovery management & enter the Label ,Exchange name & domain.

Select Create a recovery Storage Group.

Then Link it with the Existing Group.

Name the recovery storage group and verify the location of the exchange data and logs.

Click Create the RSG…

Go to the DPM 2010 Server open the DPM 2010 MMC & to the Recovery Tab, then select the early a back up ( not the Latest).

Then select the Mail box you want to Restore Rite click then select Restore will get the below Review Window. & Click next..

Select the Recovery Type.

You need to Specify the Destination the Exchange sever name, Storage, & the DB name.

Then you get the Recovery Option u can modify or level it …

And the Summary page will appear then click recover it will start to recover the mailbox.

If it is Successful u will get a status message like below

The recovery storage group will not show up in the exchange MMC , then only way to see it via the Shell with the

command( get-storageGroup -server exchange)

Mount the Recovered Database

You will find it already mounted

Then merge the database

Then Click Gather Information .

In this step we need to Specify the single mail that we need to Restore ( in this case i have put my subject of the mail Hi to you)

Then the restore will start & finish

Then log in to the mail and check you will see your lost mail restored.

After restoring you need to remove the RSG.

Select the Database and dismount it

Then click Remove RSG

And delete the folder that is created by the RSG.

Enjoy Dpm2010

Using Ntdsutil.exe to transfer or seize FSMO roles to a domain controller

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255504

http://www.petri.co.il/seizing_fsmo_roles.htm

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5081138.html