Tag: Microsoft

Remove DPM agent from the DPM agent console

I blogged about this last year, but when I moved my blog, I lost part of the post (the picture) so I just deleted the post.  Then I noticed that Google is still sending people here to find the answer, so… If you have DPM Protected Computer that goes away before you uninstall the agent,… Continue reading Remove DPM agent from the DPM agent console

Replica disk threshold exceeded, or Recovery Point Volume threshold exceeded

Great! :(  Now what? Well, if you have a new DPM server and not a lot of protection groups created, and you haven’t been protecting anything much, you can just click on the link in the warning message that says “Allocate more disk space for replica…”  That pulls up a pretty window that looks like… Continue reading Replica disk threshold exceeded, or Recovery Point Volume threshold exceeded

The stub received bad data – DPM backup of a SQL DB

My DPM Server: Server 2008 x64 DPM 2007 SP1 SQL 2005 SP3 (local to DPM) Protecting: Server 2003 SP2 x64 SQL 2005 SP3 I have about 30 databases being backed up from the one client machine.  All of them backup just fine except one.  Every time I try to do a synchronization or a full… Continue reading The stub received bad data – DPM backup of a SQL DB

Preinstall DPM Client

If you deploy servers from an image, and you would like to install DPM prior to imaging, you can’t just use the install option from the DPM server.  You CAN install the agent manually, and then configure it later.  Copy the latest agent files from C:\Program Files\Microsoft DPM\DPM\Agents\RA and put them somewhere you can get… Continue reading Preinstall DPM Client

SQL Queries

I don’t usually do a lot with SQL, but lately I have found myself having to look at, and work with SQL a good bit.  It seems that things come in waves.  Anyway, I was looking for a quick way to copy a table from one Database to another and came across this blog which… Continue reading SQL Queries

System Center Service Manager

When I first heard that Microsoft was going to release a “Service Desk” product, I was actually kind of excited.  I heard about it at MMS in 2006 (I think) and the things that they were planning for their Service Desk product sounded really useful and even a bit forward thinking.  Evidently, what they intended… Continue reading System Center Service Manager

The right way and the wrong way to disable the the firewall…

I use Server 2008 for a lot of things these days and I tend to not use the Windows firewall for most applications.  Here is an interesting note for the right and wrong way to disable the firewall and why doing things “the way we have always done them” isn’t always the right way: Although… Continue reading The right way and the wrong way to disable the the firewall…