Operations Manager 2012 R2 Management Pack Dependencies

I am not proficient at managing Ops Manager.  I am at best a competent tinkerer.  I have been needing to do some clean up on our Ops Manager installation, and clear some management packs that are not used, or just used to generate noise that we subsequently ignore.  That is a bit of an annoying… Continue reading Operations Manager 2012 R2 Management Pack Dependencies

Error after upgrading Orchestrator to 2012 R2

After upgrading from System Center Orchestrator 2012 sp1 to 2012 R2, my Runbooks weren’t running via my scheduled tasks.  After some digging, I figured out that I couldn’t open the Orchestration Console, because I kept getting this error: Error executing the current operation. [HttpWebRequest_WebException_RemoteServer] Arguments: NotFound Debugging resource strings are unavailable. Often the key and… Continue reading Error after upgrading Orchestrator to 2012 R2

Error (415) adding a host to SCVMM 2012 sp1

I kept having errors adding hosts to a VMM server, even though all of the prereqs were met.   I received the following errors every time I tried to add the hosts: Error (415) Agent installation failed copying C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012\Virtual Machine Manager\agents\I386\3.1.6011.0\msiInstaller.exe to \\<hostname>\ADMIN$\msiInstaller.exe. The specified network name is no longer available Recommended… Continue reading Error (415) adding a host to SCVMM 2012 sp1

Using SCOJobRunner

We have started using System Center Orchestrator (2012 SP1) to do some automation.  Most of what we have done so far could be done outside of Orchestrator pretty easily.  Having it in Orchestrator makes it easier to keep track of all the automated tasks that we have.  ( A central repository in theory.) I have… Continue reading Using SCOJobRunner

SCVMM and P2V Adventures

Where I work, we have been using Microsoft Virtualization since Virtual Server was in Beta.  Of course, we don’t necessarily use all of the functions and features of all the software we have, but one feature that I have used a good bit is the “Convert physical server” action in System Center Virtual Machine Manager. … Continue reading SCVMM and P2V Adventures

Error installing DPM 2010 Beta

I was installing the DPM 2010 Beta (finally) and had an issue trying to get the SQL 2008 to install.  Finally figured out that I had the install files stored too deeply in a network share.  I figure this out by running the SQL install directly and when it when to check prereq’s it had… Continue reading Error installing DPM 2010 Beta

Follow up to the DPM recovery point expiration issues

Previously, I blogged about issues I was having where old recovery points were not being expired/removed from my DPM servers.  I had to open a ticket with Microsoft, and worked with them to determine the cause, and since then, they have released a fix. The fix that Microsoft developed is here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=aee949aa-d3e7-4b0f-b718-00b7c20f1257&displayLang=en A few people… Continue reading Follow up to the DPM recovery point expiration issues

DPM v 3

I just watched a webcast on DPM v3 and thought I would share some of what I got from that. In the last 18 months, DPM 2007 (v2) delivered application protection for Exchange ,SQL Server, SharePoint and virtualization environments running Virtual Server and Hyper-V.  Disaster recovery with Iron Mountain, Local Datasource Protection and Client backups… Continue reading DPM v 3