In addition to this great post by MigrationMark about Automating VM Migration and uninstalling VMware Tools I decided to write a little powershell script that finds the GUID of the VMware Tools Registry Key and use it to uninstall VMware Tools with this key. This powershell script will uninstall VMware Tools and force shutdown the […]
DFS Replication service stopped replication
Received the following error when trying to figure out why my policy’s were not working. C:\Windows\system32>gpupdate /force Updating policy… Computer policy could not be updated successfully. The following errors were enc ountered: The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows attempted to read the file \\domain.local\SysVol\domain.local\Policies\{3B6204CA-6706-4077-B296-B657A495661 5}\gpt.ini from a domain controller and was not […]
Set custom property’s on VM creation
It seems like you cant set custom property’s on VM creation, you will encounter these problems if you use a powershell function to deploy a VM like below and you want to set a custom property in the same function. Function CreateVM { #Create unique Guid as JobGroupID $JobGroupID = [Guid]::NewGuid().ToString() $VMTemplate = Get-SCVMTemplate | […]
Force Remove VMM Cloud
I had some problems today with a Cloud that I could’t delete. If I clicked Right mouse > Delete in VMM, nothing happend. *Please backup your database before any changes, I’m not responsible for the outcome.* I successfully removed this cloud trough changing the “Physical Object’s” in the SQL database that were still connected somehow. […]
VMM Crash – Error 802
Encountered some strange behaviour within VMM. Situation: I created a VM Template “VMTemplate – Windows Server 2012 Datacenter” from a server called “VM – Windows Server 2012 Datacenter”. The VM Template disk is stored in a folder on the library share. When I delete the folder (or safely move to a folder outside the library) […]
Force Remove Virtual Machine Manager library
There is no Remove-SCLibraryServer -Force command but you can still delete a non-existent VMM Library Server. First open up the SQL Management studio and execute the following query to find out your VMM Library server ID: use VirtualManagerDB go select LibraryID, ComputerName from dbo.tbl_ADHC_Library You’ll see an ID similar to the one below. Next, remove […]
Anonymous SMTP for DPM 2012
Anonymous SMTP for DPM 2012 Setting up anonymous SMTP in DPM has been an issue for some time. It seems like you need to fill in the username and password field. You can work arround this “Bug”.Fill in the right details on the SMTP Server options tab. Under “Authenticated STMP server” fill in a fake user and […]
SetDpmServer failed with errorcode =0x80004005, error says: Unspecified error
SetDpmServer failed with errorcode =0x80004005, error says: Unspecified error This is caused because you don’t have all the default rules in advanced firewall. When you stop the firewall service (MpsSvc) , and then execute the setdpmserver command, it works. Please be aware that stopping the firewall service could prevent your connection with the server. I […]
DPM Backup Exchange after database move
I moved an Exchange database last night from Local Disk N:\ to Local Disk R:\ and came to the discovery that DPM doesn’t notice that change automatically. I got the following error: DPM is unable to continue protection for Second Storage group x because the change tracking information is corrupt (ID 30156 Details: Do not Attach the filter […]
