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DPM 2010: Bare Metal Recovery–Network Connectivity
I was doing some test with Bare Metal Recovery. Most parts of the recover procedure are explained great in blogpost like this one from CTRL+P:...
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Upgrading DPM 2007 to DPM 2010
A customer is running DPM 2007 SP1 on a Windows Server 2003 with a Remote SQL 2005 database. The customer want’s to upgrade to DPM 2010. In this post I will explain my upgrade plan and the issues I ran...
View ArticleDPM 2010 agent installation stuck at 5%
After upgrading from DPM 2007 to DPM 2010 all agents need to be updated. This went fine on all servers but one, a Windows Server 2003 SP2 x86 server. Agent installation started but was stuck at 5%....
View ArticleNew rollup package for DPM 2010 (March 2011)
Microsoft released the second hotfix rollup package for DPM 2010 (KB2465832) This hotfix rollup resolves the following issues: When you change the ports that are used by the Data Protection Manager...
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Force Hyper-V VM backup to use System VSS
I was preparing a hyper-v backup on a demo environment. I only needed to backup one VM, so configuring the HP Lefthand VSS writer was not really needed. But when performing a backup in DPM, I received...
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DPM 2010: Use unauthenticated SMTP server
One of our Belgian ISP providers, Telenet, allows us to send mails using an unauthenticated SMTP server (when connected to the Telenet network). The steps below explain how you can use an...
View ArticleSCSM 2012: Auto Close resolved incidents after x days
Service Manager 2012 now has a lot of built in cmdlets. I used the built-in CMDlets to create a workflow which will disable all resolved incidents after a specified time. There are several posts...
View ArticleSCSM 2012: Notify Analyst on Incident Reassignment
The guys of the System Center Service Manager blog on TechNet already made a great post to send out an email notification to the analyst when he gets assigned to an incident....
View ArticleSCSM 2012: Time worked can be added only for imported or created users in...
As a consultant a temporary account was created for me in a separate OU. I used this account for installation and configuration of System Center Service Manager 2012. I also wanted to use this account...
View ArticleEnable verbose logging on Self-Service Portal
A couple of days ago, Travis Wright wrote a blog post on troubleshooting Self-Service Portal Issues in SCSM 2012. In this post Travis explains where you can find the SMPortalTrace.log file...
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