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Sharepoint 2010 protection in DPM 2010: Part 3

Hey All, This is part 3 of our Sharepoint protection in DPM 2010 serie and also the last part. You can find the other two parts here: http://scug.be/blogs/scdpm/archive/2010/03/11/sharepoint-2010-protection...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by MikeResseler on 03-16-2010

Filed under: dpm 2010, System Center Data Protection Manager, Sharepoint, SCDPM2010

System Center Service Manager Update

The last weeks there were some major updates on the release of System Center Service Manager. A little overview: The Service Manager announce the availability of the EN-US version of Service Manager Release...

Posted to System Center Service Manager by KurtVH on 03-15-2010

Sharepoint 2010 protection in DPM 2010: Part 2

Hey All, This is the second part of the 3-part sharepoint 2010 protection series In the first part we looked at the things that were necessary as prerequiste to protect a sharepoint farm. We also...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by MikeResseler on 03-12-2010

Filed under: System Center Data Protection Manager, Sharepoint, SCDPM2010

Sharepoint 2010 protection in DPM 2010: Part 1

Hey All, This post will the first of three about sharepoint protection. Part 1 will be about the preparation to protect a sharepoint farm and some background information what DPM can do with your sharepoint...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by MikeResseler on 03-11-2010

Filed under: dpm 2010, System Center Data Protection Manager, Sharepoint

How to manually install an agent and attach it to the DPM server

Hey All, I’m receiving sometimes the question about manual installation of DPM agents. Sometimes this is because off using deployment tools, other times it is because of firewall restrictions on...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by MikeResseler on 03-10-2010

Filed under: dpm 2010, System Center Data Protection Manager, agent

Infront TrendMicro Management Pack

The Infront TrendMicro Management Pack allows customers to proactively monitor their TrendMicro environment. This Management Pack allows for the monitoring of the end-to-end security and spam protection...

Posted to System Center Operations Manager by alkin on 03-08-2010

Filed under: Management Pack, TrendMicro, Infront Consulting, IMSS, Scanmail, office Scan

The Quest QMX VMware extension is now free via vCenter and vSphere

Quest has announced that the QMX VMware extension is now free via vCenter and vSphere. The Quest Management Extensions (QMX) - Operations Manager 2007 Edition VMware solution supports all versions of VMware...

Posted to System Center Operations Manager by alkin on 03-05-2010

Filed under: Management Pack, opsmgr, opsmgr R2, Opmsgr 2007 R2, esx, vSphere, vCenter, vmware

Unique OpsMgr 2007 R2 Bootcamp training event (Belgium) :

Hi all, I am very proud to be able to announce that we will be able to host a Unique OpsMgr 2007 R2 training event in Belgium. Is the average training not meeting the depth of technical content you need...

Posted to System Center Operations Manager by alkin on 03-04-2010

Filed under: opsmgr, opsmgr R2, MVP, realdolmen, Infront Consulting, training

MMS 2010 is only 6 weeks away and SCUG will be there…

Yes, MMS 2010 is coming soon and it will be an exciting week. The complete SCUG team from Belgium will be there! MMS info : Microsoft Management Summit 2010 The entire session schedule is available on...

Posted to System Center Service Manager by KurtVH on 03-03-2010

MOF 4.0 Foundation Course

Microsoft just announced the beta release of the MOF 4.0 Foundation Course. This training course is intended primarily for those who deliver service management-focused training. It’s also designed to supplement...

Posted to System Center Operations Manager by alkin on 03-03-2010

DPM Upgrade Advisor

Hey All, Microsoft just released an excel document called the SCDPM Upgrade Advisor http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/archive/2010/02/26/upgrade-advisor-for-dpm-2010-now-available.aspx This document will give...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by MikeResseler on 02-26-2010

Filed under: System Center Data Protection Manager, SCDPM2010, Upgrade Advisor

Client-protection: create a protection group and initial synchronization

Hey All, Last post , I’ve installed remotely a client agent to a workstation in another domain and over VPN. Now it is time to create a protection group with a policy and do the first synchronization...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by MikeResseler on 02-22-2010

Filed under: dpm 2010, System Center Data Protection Manager, SCDPM2010, Client Protection

Getting the Client-protection working

Hey All, One of the exiting features of DPM 2010 is the improved client protection of workstations. In this post, I’ll give some more information about it. To make it a bit tricky, I decided...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by MikeResseler on 02-22-2010

Filed under: System Center Data Protection Manager, SCDPM2010, Installation, Client Protection

MMS 2010

MMS 2010 will be in Las Vegas April 19-23, and registration is now open. The list of planned sessions is available at http://www.mms-2010.com/public/sessions.aspx . There are 28 breakout sessions specific...

Posted to System Center Operations Manager by alkin on 02-18-2010

Filed under: MVP, mms

Do you want to know how Microsoft IT does Virtualization?

Come to the TechDays 2010 and attend the following session: Virtualization in Microsoft IT Lessons learned in 5 years of implementing Microsoft’s virtualization platform and System Center Virtual Machine Manager, driving from 5 pilot Virtual Server 2005...

Posted to System Center Virtual Machine Manager by [MSFT-BE] Arlindo's Blog - IT Pro Evangelist : SCVMM on 02-18-2010

Filed under: System Center, SCVMM, Virtualization, Hyper-V

Hotfix: Dynamic Disk Hotfix

Hey All, Microsoft released a hotfix for potential problems with Windows Server 2008 systems. Could be an important one if you are experiencing issues with dynamic disks, which is what DPM uses. Hotfix...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by MikeResseler on 02-18-2010

Filed under: windows server 2008, System Center Data Protection Manager, Troubleshooting

Preparing for the MVP summit 2010

Hi All, Just getting myself ready for the MVP summit in Seattle next week, as our other 2 SCUG MVP’s ( Kim Oppalfens & Alexandre Verkinderen ) . For me it is going to be an exciting event for me ,...

Posted to SCCM - System Center Configuration Manager by Kenny Buntinx on 02-13-2010

SCUG invites you to “What's new in DPM 2010” (Mar 03, 2010)

What's new in DPM 2010 Microsoft released the public beta for Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010. Attend this webcast to learn about Data Protection Manager 2010 and the product...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by alkin on 02-11-2010

Filed under: session, system center, dpm 2010, beta, System Center Data Protection Manager, event

DPM 2010 RC: After the Upgrade

Hey All, Just to let you know… Since I did an upgrade yesterday from the beta to RC, I now have two instances of SQL MSDPMV3BETA1EVAL and MSDPM2010RCEVAL After searching through the newsgroups, it got...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by MikeResseler on 02-11-2010

Filed under: dpm 2010, System Center Data Protection Manager, Tips and Trics, SCDPM2010

DPM 2010: Upgrade from beta to RC

Hey All, Download of the DPM 2010 RC is finished, uploaded to my test server so here goes: Documentation? First thing noticed, there is no documentation with it so I will have to do it with the older documentation...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by MikeResseler on 02-10-2010

Filed under: dpm 2010, System Center Data Protection Manager, SCDPM2010

DPM interesting day

Hey All, A very interesting day today and yesterday as I have seen many interesting information passing by. Instead of creating a post for each of them, I will put them all together here....

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by MikeResseler on 02-10-2010

Filed under: dpm

SCDPM 2010 RC is available!!!!

Hey all, It is finally there, check out the post from Jason Buffington… Time to download :-) http://blogs.technet.com/jbuff/archive/2010/02/09/data-protection-manager-2010-release-candidate-now...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by MikeResseler on 02-09-2010

Filed under: dpm 2010

HP ProLiant Hardware Inventory Tool for Configuration Manager 2007 (howto)

Yesterday , I ran into a customer who wanted me to extend there Hardware inventory with there Compaq and HP Server equipment such as ILO Serial number , physical Memory slots , etc. Instead of making...

Posted to SCCM - System Center Configuration Manager by Kenny Buntinx on 02-09-2010

Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, SCCM 2007, sccm, ConfigMgr, ConfigMgr 2007 R2, SCCM 2007 R2, configmgr2007, sccm2007, ConfigMgr SP2, SCCM 2007 SP2

App-V : Sequencing the SCCM 2007 Console ( howto )

More and more customers are demanding a swift and easy install of the SCCM console , especially when it comes to upgrade your consoles when a new service pack comes along. As my customers also have App...

Posted to SCCM - System Center Configuration Manager by Kenny Buntinx on 02-08-2010

Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, SCCM 2007, Virtual machine, AdminUi, sccm, ConfigMgr, AppV, MMC updates, ConfigMgr 2007 R2, SCCM 2007 R2, configmgr2007, sccm2007, Installation, ConfigMgr SP2, SCCM 2007 SP2

Troubleshoot Sharepoint Recoveries

Hey All, Just saw a nice video about troubleshooting Sharepoint Recoveries with system center data protection manager 2007. The video is created by Shane Brasher who is a Senior DPM Support Escalation...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by MikeResseler on 02-04-2010

Filed under: SCDPM 2007, Sharepoint, Troubleshooting

SCCM Hotfix available: KB977203 - User state migration fails on a SCCM 2007 SP1 or SP2 client after you install security update 974571

The actually workaround before this hotfix came out, was is to uninstall the 974571 hotfix on computers before running USMT task sequence. This workaround works fine but was not sufficient for many customers...

Posted to SCCM - System Center Configuration Manager by Kenny Buntinx on 02-03-2010

SCCM : Deploying Windows 7 on a VMware ESX environment ( howto )

Hi , Did you ever wanted to build a reference image of your physical workstations onto your VMware ESX environment ( yes , some customers have a firm grip on vmware …) so that people could play around...

Posted to SCCM - System Center Configuration Manager by Kenny Buntinx on 02-03-2010

Filed under: SCCM 2007, script, sccm, ConfigMgr, OSD, Drivers, Vmware, ConfigMgr 2007 R2, SCCM 2007 R2, configmgr2007, sccm2007, Installation, ConfigMgr SP2, SCCM 2007 SP2, Windows 7

Sharepoint 2010 and SystemCenter

Hey All, Just attended a live meeting on System Center and Sharepoint 2010 and as usual, it was looking very promising again. Although this is the blog about Data Protection Manager I will briefly tell...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by MikeResseler on 02-02-2010

SCCM : Windows 7 deployments & unattended.xml

How can I customize my Windows 7 deployment , such as the regional settings, Firewall , internet explorer , keyboard settings? Even if you are using SCCM & task sequences you still want to customize...

Posted to SCCM - System Center Configuration Manager by Kenny Buntinx on 02-02-2010

Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, SCCM 2007, sccm, ConfigMgr, OSD, SCCM 2007 R2, configmgr2007, sccm2007, ConfigMgr SP2, SCCM 2007 SP2

Application Compatibility Toolkit Connector Update for Windows 7 deployments

To help you accelerate their testing and deployment of applications on Windows 7 , Microsoft has the Application Compatibility Toolkit Connector (ACT Connector) that assists administrators with collecting...

Posted to SCCM - System Center Configuration Manager by Kenny Buntinx on 01-30-2010

SCCM OSD : HP Quicklaunch application installation integrated in a task sequence

My issue today was again a fight to integrate the HP Quick Launch Drivers into my OSD task sequence. I am installing it as part of my Windows XP SP3 build ( I know it should be Windows 7 , but at...

Posted to SCCM - System Center Configuration Manager by Kenny Buntinx on 01-28-2010

SCUG session with Nigel Cain: System Center Service Manager Integration

Hello, Last week we had the pleasure to attend to the Microsoft partner session with Nigel Cain and in the evening there was the SCUG session where Nigel talked about the integration possibilities of System...

Posted to System Center Service Manager by KurtVH on 01-26-2010

Windows Embedded Standard 2009 support statement for SCCM 2007 updated

Hi All, If any of you happen to be playing around with WES 2009 and System Center Configuration Manager 2007, you might want to have a look at the new blogpost at the ConfigMgr’s product team blog...

Posted to SCCM - System Center Configuration Manager by Kimoppalfens on 01-26-2010

Filed under: SCCM 2007, sccm, OSD, embedded

System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 Beta Webcast

Hey All, Last Thursday was an exiting day for all the DPM fans out there. Jason Buffington was presenting a webcast about the new features and improvements in DPM 2010, that will go RC in a couple...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by MikeResseler on 01-18-2010

Filed under: SCDPM V3, SCDPM2010

Packaging tools to Create MSI’s

Hi All, Since my sccmautodoc program is getting close to completion I set out to try and see whether I could create an install for it. Most of the bug reports I received back was from people that...

Posted to SCCM - System Center Configuration Manager by Kimoppalfens on 01-18-2010

OpsMgr 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 1

Our first cumulative update has released for OpsMgr 2007 R2! Cumulative Update 1 contains a number of fixes for the Operations Manager 2007 R2 release. More information about what has been fixed can be...

Posted to System Center Operations Manager by alkin on 01-18-2010

Filed under: Issue, opsmgr, opsmgr R2, hotfix, Cumulative Update

OpsMgr survey about Management Pack Authoring

Microsoft is conducting a survey about Management Pack Authoring. If you ever wanted to give feedback about the management pack authoring process now is the time! You can find the survey here http://www...

Posted to System Center Operations Manager by alkin on 01-18-2010

Filed under: Management Pack, opsmgr, opsmgr R2, Opmsgr 2007 R2, survey, authoring

What’s new in System Center Operations Manager R2 LiveMeeting SlideDeck

Description Join us for this informative session on the new features of OpsMgr 2007 R2., where you will learn about the differences between OpsMgr 2007 and OpsMgr 2007 R2 like support for cross-platform...

Posted to System Center Operations Manager by alkin on 01-13-2010

Filed under: opsmgr, opsmgr R2, Opmsgr 2007 R2, live Meeting, Technet

SCCM SP2 Hotfix KB978021 :The Distribution Manager that is in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 does not honor the "Number of retries" and "Delay before retrying (minutes)" retry settings

The distribution manager (distmgr, the component that is there for distributing the packages to a distribution point) seems not working as we would expect with SP2. Consider the following scenario: The...

Posted to SCCM - System Center Configuration Manager by Kenny Buntinx on 01-09-2010

Server Management Suite Licenses getting more expensive!

Today the System Center Team announced the new capabilities and price changes of the Server Management Suite Enterprise (SMSE) and Server Management Suite Datacenter (SMSD) licenses. You can read the whole...

Posted to System Center Operations Manager by alkin on 01-09-2010

Filed under: opsmgr, opsmgr R2, Opmsgr 2007 R2, Service Manager, SMSD, Licensing, SMSE, Opalis

App-V : Updated OS VALUE XML Tag References and Supported Client Versions

I was trying to test applications that were sequenced for windows XP on Windows 7 . The problem was that I needed to update the OS VALUE XML in the config file . I came across an article from Steve Thomas...

Posted to SCCM - System Center Configuration Manager by Kenny Buntinx on 01-09-2010

Filed under: AppV, ConfigMgr 2007 R2, SCCM 2007 R2, ConfigMgr SP2, SCCM 2007 SP2, Windows 7

SCCM Vnext : TAP Nominations are open !

Finally , the bullet is thru the church… TAP nominations to the SCCM Vnext are open and a lot of people expect great features and improvement made to the product . Certainly now SCCM Vnext is going to...

Posted to SCCM - System Center Configuration Manager by Kenny Buntinx on 01-09-2010

DPM 2010 Powershell Script – Hyper-V Auto-Protection

Hey All, Microsoft has released a sample powershell script for enabling DPM 2010 auto-protection of Hyper-V http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=46d51b5a-5827-43f6-84f5-ce33f4a8e6c3&displaylang...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by MikeResseler on 01-08-2010

Filed under: powershell, dpm 2010

Configure SCSM email incident support

We know that we can create incidents via the console; support people can handle a phone request and create an incident in the SCSM console. This blog provides some info about the email incident support...

Posted to System Center Service Manager by KurtVH on 01-07-2010

Techdays 2010 Here we (The Scug team) come

Hi All, Just received confirmation that I will have a speaker slot again, for the 4th year in a row at the Belgian Techdays. So me, and the rest of the Belgian SCUG team will be present to talk to you...

Posted to SCCM - System Center Configuration Manager by Kimoppalfens on 01-06-2010

Filed under: SMS, ConfigMgr 2007, SCCM 2007, sccm, ConfigMgr, ConfigMgr 2007 R2, SCCM 2007 R2, configmgr2007, sccm2007, SccmAutoDoc

MVP RENEWAL and Happy New year

First of all I wish you all a happy new year! And second, I just received THE email saying that my MVP award got renewed this year :-) Thanks, Alexandre Verkinderen

Posted to System Center Operations Manager by alkin on 01-02-2010

Filed under: MVP

System Center Data Protection Manager 2007: TCP Chimney and Bandwidth throttling

Hey All, I’ve seen a number of cases where the backup of hyper-v guests is failing and also where the backup is extremely slow. Almost every time, some small adjustments need to be made to fix them...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by MikeResseler on 12-22-2009

Filed under: Data Protection Manager 2007, Tips and Trics

System Center Data Protection Manager: Cool script

Hey All, One of my colleagues is managing a rather large environment on a daily base. He has to manage two backup solutions (HP Data Protector and SCDPM) that share one tape library. From time...

Posted to System Center Data Protection Manager by MikeResseler on 12-21-2009

Filed under: powershell, SCDPM2007, scripts

SCCM : How to create a collection to list Windows Embedded Devices

Hi , For a customer , I had the requirement for creating a collection that was filled with Windows Embedded Devices using the WMI property as selection criterion. This can be done by creating a new collection...

Posted to SCCM - System Center Configuration Manager by Kenny Buntinx on 12-18-2009

Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, SCCM 2007, sccm, ConfigMgr, ConfigMgr 2007 R2, SCCM 2007 R2, configmgr2007, sccm2007, ConfigMgr SP2, SCCM 2007 SP2, XPe

How to find Windows Embedded devices in SCCM.

I am implementing at one of my customers a situation where 3000 Windows embedded devices will be installed. In this environments I want to be sure that any Windows Embedded devices connected to the network...

Posted to SCCM - System Center Configuration Manager by Kenny Buntinx on 12-18-2009

Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, SCCM 2007, ConfigMgr, ConfigMgr 2007 R2, SCCM 2007 R2, configmgr2007, sccm2007, ConfigMgr SP2, SCCM 2007 SP2

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