Archives
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KB: VM backups in Data Protection Manager fail with "change tracking information is corrupt" error
Just a quick FYI on a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where protection of virtual machines on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster host fails with error ID 30156 “The system cannot find the path specified (0x80070003).” -
KB: Restoring a SharePoint default.aspx file in Data Protection Manager fails with Invalid Pointer (0x80004003) error
Just a quick FYI on a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where attempts to restore a SharePoint default.aspx file using DPM Item Level Recovery (ILR) fails with internal error code: 0x80990E14. This is a fairly unique situation that normally only comes up in testing but we thought it would be good to let you know about it just in case you happened to come across it. You can get all of the details here: -
Uploading a custom operating system to Azure Virtual Machines
Azure virtual machines comes with a massive gallery of virtual machine images, so you can pick your OS from a variety of options, from Ubuntu to Windows Server 2008 R2. In some situations, you might want to upload your own virtual machine into Azure. For example, if you have a pre-existing server that has a complex configuration in place, it might be easier to just upload the VHD as-is rather than re-create everything on a new VM. For such a situation, Azure allows you to upload your own VHD file, and use it as the basis for a virtual machine. Here’s a guide for doing this.
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How to setup DPM 2012 to protect SharePoint 2010
Microsoft’s own Chris Butcher posted a couple great videos that walk you through how to protect SharePoint 2010 using System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager. It’s a two part series which run about a half an hour each and you can check them out below. -
Updates: Accesschk v5.11, Procdump v6.0, RAMMap v1.22, Strings v2.51
AccessChk v5.11: AccessChk, a command line utility for
dumping the effective permissions and security descriptors for files, registry
keys, processes, tokens, object manager objects, now prefixes Windows 8
application container SIDs with the word “Package”, and includes several minor
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DPM and System State Backup Explained
Chris Butcher | Senior Support Escalation Engineer
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MVP Speaker Series Presentation on “Backup That Really Works”
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Servant…here to serve YOU!
Jonas Hovgaard, a developer from Denmark has released a terrific piece of software called Servant. Servant is a web-based administration tool for IIS, which can be used instead of the Internet Information Services management tool (InetMgr) to manage and administer most of the daily operations of IIS. This is how it looks (screenshots courtesy of Jonas Hovgaard):
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Meet my co-presenter for TechEd US - Ahmed ElSayed!
I got some great news! Joining me for the presentation on IIS in TechEd New Orleans will be my dear colleague Ahmed ElSayed! Ahmed is a Software Developer who graduated from The American University in Cairo, Egypt, and is now a member of the QA team for IIS.
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SC 2012 SP1 – DPM: Leveraging DPM ScaleOut feature to protect VMs deployed on a big cluster