sbuchanan Here is the problem on DPM one of the agents for a protected server stops communicating with DPM. You see the error “DPM failed to communicate with the protection agent on protectedservername.domainname.com because access is denied. (ID 42 Details: Access is denied (0x80070005))” In my scenario the protected server was in a non-trusted domain. I … Read more
CloudShare is offering a SharePoint 2013 sandbox to try out the new SharePoint. The environment has: A SharePoint 2013 web front end A server with SQL Server 2012 A server with Active Directory Visit: http://go.cloudshare.com/StoneShare-SharePoint-2013-beta to sign up.
There is another book for the System Center stack coming from Packt. This book is a cookbook on Service Manager 2012. This book will cover the various methods and best practices administrating and using Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2012. How to correctly solve specific problems and scenarios that arise while using System Center Service … Read more
Today I received an email that made my year! I was awarded System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP by Microsoft. Here is the email I received: Dear Steve Buchanan, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2012 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share … Read more
Problem: You want to change or have already changed the DPM SQL Reporting Services account password DPMR$<DPMSERVERNAME> after initial install of DPM. Now when you try to access DPM reports you get this error: An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Cannot impersonate user for data source ‘DLS’. (rsErrorImpersonatingUser) Log on failed. Ensure the … Read more
There is a new book on Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager coming soon. This book will cover the following: Install SQL before considering System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Set up security so administrators can’t see or touch each other’s machines Use the new System Center 2012 Configuration Manager features to set up monthly patching … Read more
While working with the Service Manager 2012 Self Service Portal I was receiving an error when clicking on KB articles. Here is the error: This deployment was using a self signed certificate. I had already installed the self signed certificate in the trusted root store. To fix this I went to C:\inetpub\wwwroot\System Center Service Manager … Read more
All new System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager Survival Guide! The survival guide is a wiki page that is a pointer to the best information on the web. Use the guide to learn the fundamentals; increase your current knowledge; or stay current on Data Protection Manager. The cool thing about this being a wiki is … Read more
My good friend Robert Hedblom just announced on his blog that with DPM Service Pack 1 Beta DPM will be able to backup to the cloud using Azure technology! This is exciting news as many people in the DPM community have been asking about DPM backup to cloud options for some time. You can learn … Read more
Recently I had to deploy System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP). SCEP was not installing on clients. I knew I would run into problems because Symantec Endpoint Protection was on these clients and there was a password required to uninstall it. Sure enough the require uninstall password was causing the issue. Here are the details: From … Read more