October 2010 - Posts

Configure the Forefront TMG 2010 to allow DPM 2010 communication

Published Wed, Oct 20 2010 14:55 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

The DPM agent uses various ports and protocols to connect with the DPM server. The Forefront TMG needs to be configured to allow the DPM server to communicate through those ports. The complete list of ports that are used by DPM are documented at the Microsoft...

Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Hyper-V, SharePoint, System Center, Disaster Recovery, Backup, TMG, ISA Server, Data Protection Manager, Forefront, Virtualization, File Services, Security

Apply missing Exchange 2010 RBAC Management Roles and Policies

Published Thu, Oct 14 2010 14:35 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

If you encounter after installation of Exchange Server 2010 SP1, there are some RBAC Management Roles and Policies missing and you even can’t not access the Exchange Management Console or Exchange Management Shell, you need to follow this steps, when...

Filed under: General, Exchange, Active Directory

Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controller on iSCSI boot server not supported

Published Fri, Oct 8 2010 19:24 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

When you installed Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller and used iSCSI mounted drives for your SYSVOL and Active Direcotry Database, you recognized that this doesn’t work because the iSCSI LUNs are not mounted when Active Directory Services expect it...

Filed under: General, Windows Server, Hyper-V, Backup, Active Directory, Virtualization, NetApp, Dynamic Computing

Windows Server 2008 R2 refuse to resolve external FQDN

Published Fri, Oct 8 2010 19:07 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

No, it is not the dot in the hierachy on DNS Server which makes him a Root DNS. So looking for this is obvious. And what if you find, that DNS Root Servers are listed and forwarders are able to ping, but recursive name resolution still doesn’t work. When...

Filed under: General, Windows Server, Active Directory, Network Services, DNS, Windows Client, Security

Windows Live Essentials 2011 Worldwide Language Downloads

Published Thu, Oct 7 2010 22:16 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

… you find it for any language here .  

Filed under: General, Tools, Cloud Computing, Windows Live Essentials, Dynamic Computing

Exchange Team released Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1

Published Thu, Oct 7 2010 21:23 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

It includes several fixes for nearly all server roles. More details and download option here . Next scheduled Update Rollup for December 2010  

Filed under: General, Exchange, Forefront

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP2 Upgrade Advisor

Published Thu, Oct 7 2010 13:47 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

Download the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor. Upgrade Advisor analyzes instances of SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 to help you prepare for upgrades to SQL Server 2008. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bdd888fa-779f...

Filed under: General, SQL, Tools

Roundtable Forefront and System Center on Tech-Ed Europe

Published Mon, Oct 4 2010 9:12 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

Reservation will be made for Tuesday November 9 at 1900 at following location for Forefront and System Center Roundtable: http://www.ypsilonberlin.de YPSILON Haupstrasse 163 10827 Berlin Phone +49 30 7824539 U-Bhf Kleistpark, U 7 Bus M48, 106, 187, 204...

Filed under: General, System Center, SCVMM, TMG, UAG, Data Protection Manager, Forefront, Security, App-V, SCOM, SCCM, MED-V, SCMDM, Opalis