MDT 2012 failure: Drive Letter Assignment Mismatch
Running a media deployment from a USB thumbdrive. The PE is assigning the thumbdrive as C: initially, then realizing the problem and reassigning it to E:, presumably to free up C; for the local disk. But the local disk, intially assigned as V: doesn't get changed to C: after C: becomes available and the deployment fails with a VBScript error.
Seems that the best way to handle thsi would be to prevent the thumbdrive getting C: in the first place. No idea how to make that happen.
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Looking in the logs, the problem comes when LTICleanup.wsf runs. It's looking for C: as the sSystemDrive and there is no C: at this point in the deploy. There's logic here to change the drive letter, but that seems not to be happening.
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What's the vbscript error ? never had this issue with Media deployments before
David Sebban | Nelite North America | http://www.nelite.com/community/b/dsebban/default.aspx
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The USB is the source--media deployment.
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What method did you use to create your media deployment. Are you using MDT 2010 UP 1 or MDT 2012.
Here is some additional info:
If you use a USB key as the media, everything works fine. The issue only occurs with a USB hard disk and an unpartitionned internal hard disk. If the disk is already partitionned, everything works fine.In the logs, we see that initially the USB media gets drive letter C: (as it is the first partition found on any disk). LiteTouch detects this and tries to change the drive letter by running a diskpart script.
The drive letter change seems to work, the partitionning of the internal hard disk works too, but in the case of a USB hard disk media, the MININT folder, log files and _SMSTaskSequence folder are then copied to the external hard drive instead of the internal hard drive. With a USB key, it works fine.
- Edited by Massivesystem Thursday, August 2, 2012 8:10 PM
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MDT 2012. I am using a USB key. The behavior you describe is what is occuring, however.
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Bug in profile activities dates not correct showing two months ago but really 2 years
See my recent activity
Click on the first link from my profile see the date, not 2 months ago
You can blame me we knew about this bug years ago, had it on the back log to fix. It looks pretty bad, sorry
Senior Program Manager
Content Syndication
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Yea, things look really bad... The entire ranking system, the achievements, the notifications - they all seem to have become so messed up. I wonder if it's all falling apart. Someone really needs to set this all right.
IceQB
- Edited by IceQB (MCITP, MCC) Thursday, August 2, 2012 8:14 PM
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Why would you delete a comment.
Clearly Microsoft have thus far been unable, why wouldn't they be interested to know it can be done and instead of writing forums about work arounds actually do something about eliminating it?
- Changed type Allen Song Tuesday, December 15, 2009 7:46 AM comment
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If you want MS to regulate your mail or by defacto anything else you or they choose ,
It would be a cold day indeed.
Will we just give the control to who !
Are you going to ,or should I be the judge
In the end bad practices fail so will spam
Thankl You
Deldiek
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>Why would you delete my comment about Microsoft not respnding to an offer by me to put an end to spam?Clearly Microsoft have thus far been unable, why wouldn't they be interested to know it can be done and instead of writing forums about work arounds actually do something about eliminating it?
Just Microsoft? Wow. What about all the other companies and products
in the world that can't do it either?
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MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
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In 2004 William Gates advised he would rid the world of spam within 2 years.
As the Chief executive and founder of Microsoft that was setting an objective for all of Miscrosoft.
As of today that objective has not been met.
I have advised Microsoft I can tell them how to meet that objective. Would you or would you not agree, based on it solving a currently outstanding Microsoft objective (that can save the world billions per annum) that it should be viewed with some interest?
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It's founder William Gates has amassed a 60 billion personal fortune from you, me and the rest of the public. Do you or do you not agree, if he has the oportunity to both give something back to his customers, at the same time meet a long outstanding Microsoft objective and improve the market staus of having Microsoft achieve that objectve, he should be interested?
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>Microsoft is the only company to announce it will put an end to e-mail spam and has that objective outstanding.
Not many of us believed that prediction.
>It is also the largest OS software provider in the wolrd and therefore has the most impact.
Stating random facts doesn't help your case.
mething back to his customers, at the same time meet a long outstanding Microsoft objective and improve the market staus of having Microsoft achieve that objectve, he should be interested?
If your method will rid the world of spam you can become a billionaire
on your own. Why get tangled up with a partnership with MS?
If you're successful at proving your invention's worthiness then YOU
can give something back to your customers!
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Rich Matheisen
MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
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Yes, you do realise that spam comes across an internet and into an e-mail client and it all requires programming?
You don't just invent an anti-spam gadget to plug into your PC?
So there is a small flaw in your concept. Whilst I initially considered setting up a company as large as Microsoft to put my system into place I soon realised, if I could do that, I wouldn't need to try so I dropped the option and went back to reality.
If a spam solution is to be put in place it will be via re-programming e-mail clients to handle mail in a manner that prevents it. To do that it requires a major e-mail client provider to act and encourage others to follow.
The fact is in 10 minutes I could convince you I could deliver the following without some outlandish or impossible re-programming. My problem is I would sooner convince someone like Microsoft than you but they just aren't interested even though they should be:
1. The current unsolicited spam method would become non-viable
2. Users would still be able to make new contacts.
3. If attempts to breach the above were made they could be stopped before delivery.
4. Controlled, legal, spam could be sent by legitimate spammers and not via a central office and without monitoring.
5. Users would be able to receive legitimate spam, block all spam or receive only the class of spam they desire i.e. if they want only charity spam or only adult spam or no spam that's what they'd get.
6. People who breached the legitimate spam rules would be stopped within hours.
7. New e-mails such as invoices and receipts would not be blocked.
And yes it is possible and I would defy anyone to defeat my system including Microsoft.
And you are right, it's worth a considerable amount. It would also provide considerable prestige to the company introducing it.
The fact is we live in a world of conceit and arrogance filled with people who believe "If I can't do it, or if I didn't think of it, no one else can." And when they discover they were wrong they make excuses.
People fail to realise the world is at it's current technological state because people are always thinking of things no one else can. Take DOS for example.
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>Yes, you do realise that spam comes across an internet and into an e-mail client and it all requires programming?
Get outta town! Really? Spam comes from across the Internet? I shocked
to discover that.
>You don’t just invent an anti-spam gadget to plug into your PC?
Why not?
wouldn’t need to try so I dropped the option and went back to reality.
Yeah, I guess getting funding for a start-up with tens of thousands of
employees and offices across the globe might be a little diffcult.
>If a spam solution is to be put in place it will be via re-programming e-mail clients to handle mail in a manner that prevents it. To do that it requires a major e-mail client provider to act and encourage others to follow.
Hmmm . . . so eliminating spam means replacing every email client? And
you expect that Microsoft is the company to do that? At what cost to
the end-user?
>The fact is in 10 minutes I could convince you I could deliver the following without some outlandish or impossible re-programming.
I seriously doubt that.
>My problem is I would sooner convince someone like Microsoft than you but they just aren’t interested even though they should be:
>1. The current unsolicited spam method would become non-viable
very email
receives a fingerprint? That senders be validated (please refer to
SenderID, SPF, DomainKeys, etc.)? That IP addresses of spammers be
recorded (see the various DNSBLs that fail to block spam, but do an
admirable job of blocking connections regardless of content). That you
charge money to send email (see Bonded Sender)? That every sender must
verify to every recipient that they're a real person?
>2. Users would still be able to make new contacts.
Well, let's hope so!
>3. If attempts to breach the above were made they could be stopped before delivery.
And just who is it that determines that there's been a "breach"? And a
brach of what, exactly?
>4. Controlled, legal, spam could be sent by legitimate spammers and not via a central office and without monitoring.
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>5. Users would be able to receive legitimate spam, block all spam or receive only the class of spam they desire i.e. if they want only charity spam or only adult spam or no spam that’s what they’d get.
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ple who breached the legitimate spam rules would be stopped within hours.
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>7. New e-mails such as invoices and receipts would not be blocked.
>And yes it is possible and I would defy anyone to defeat my system including Microsoft.
So we can all look forward to your presenting your research and
demonstrating your prototype?
http://projects.csail.mit.edu/spamconf/
>And you are right, it’s worth a considerable amount. It would also provide considerable prestige to the company introducing it.The fact is we live in a world of conceit and arrogance filled with people who believe "If I can't do it, or if I didn’t think of it, no one else can." And when they discover they were wrong they make excuses.
I'm not making excuses, I'm asking you to present some facts and
research methodologies and results in support of your claim of
infallibility.
If you can only claim success if every email client in the world is
standardized, and there's only a single arbiter of what's spam and
then you're not going to have any success.
>People fail to realise the world is at it’s current technological state because people are always thinking of things no one else can. Take DOS for example.
Yes, please do take DOS -- far away.
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MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
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Back from overseas.
Yes you seem to have 0% logic and 0% familiarity with computers.
Your previous comments indicated you didn't realise spam was internet based.
How many gadgets for spam have you seen? Why. Because the internet works via programming not gadgets.
Yes I seem to recall Microsoft is quite willing to upgrade its products and even does it via a product update system e.g. SP1, SP2 etc..
When Bill Gates said he was going to put an end to spam on the internet do you really think his plan was to do it without making changes to the way his e-mail client worked?
Doubt I could convince you all you like, however I could. Your doubt is based on what specific knowledge you have regarding me or is it just a theory out of the air that no one else has done it yet so no one else can?
1. Yes. Your concepts at point 1. wouldn't work however mine does not incorporate those concepts.
2. A breach of the law. Who decides? Legal precedent against fraud.
3. As in 2.
No apparently you can't look forward to it as the people who should be interested are so arrogant they think "If we can't do it no one else can" (your comments indicate you are familiare with the concept).
Uh, I think you'll discover if you do some research all the key aspects of e-mail clients is standardised, without standardisation you wouldn't be able to send e-mails from one e-mail client to another so that's not really a limit to success is it if you actuially think about it. There doesn't need to be an arbiter under my method. If I say I'm only sending charity spam and I send adult spam there's no need for arbitration, I'm not doing what I've said.
And naturally, as it is a valuable concept, I'm not about to announce how it can work here.
My only question in this forum is: I assume Microsoft aren't getting 100's of e-mails every day saying "I can put an end to e-mail spam" thereofe, given they announced they would solve the problem, you would expect some sign of interest when someone tells them they can.
That question remains, do you or do you not think that Microsoft should be interested when someone offers to solve a failed corporate objective?
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>Back from overseas.Yes you seem to have 0% logic and 0% familiarity with computers.
You're right. I've seen one of them newfangled thangs, but I never
acshully used any.
>Your previous comments indicated you didn't realise spam was internet based.
Of course not. It's processed meat. It comes in a can! Geeze.
>How many gadgets for spam have you seen? Why. Because the internet works via programming not gadgets.
Golly! And here I was, thinkin' the Internet was all them pipes with
1's and 0's slidin' around in 'em. Thanks for lettin' me know it's all
them TV programmin' fellas that make it work! I got a few gadgets out
in the barn and you're right -- I caint get none of them to work with
that Internet thang.
>Yes I seem to recall Microsoft is quite willing to upgrade its products and even does it via a product update system e.g. SP1, SP2 etc.. When Bill Gates said he was going to put an end to spam on the internet do you really think his plan was to do it without making changes to the way his e-mail client worked?Doubt I could convince you all you like, however I could. Your doubt is based on what specific knowledge you have regarding me or is it just a theory out of the air that no one else has done it yet so no one else can?1. Yes. Your concepts at point 1. wouldn't work however mine does not incorporate those concepts.2. A breach of the law. Who decides? Legal precedent against fraud.3. As in 2.No apparently you can't look forward to it as the people who should be interested are so arrogant they think "If we can't do it no one else can" (your comments indicate you are familiare with the concept).Uh, I think you'll discover if you do some research all the key aspects of e-mail clients
>is standardised, without standardisation you wouldn't be able to send e-mails from one e-mail client to another so that's not really a limit to success is it if you actuially think about it. There doesn't need to be an arbiter under my method. If I say I'm only sending charity spam and I send adult spam there's no need for arbitration, I'm not doing what I've said. And naturally, as it is a valuable concept, I'm not about to announce how it can work here.My only question in this forum is: I assume Microsoft aren't getting 100's of e-mails every day saying "I can put an end to e-mail spam" thereofe, given they announced they would solve the problem, you would expect some sign of interest when someone tells them they can. That question remains, do you or do you not think that Microsoft should be interested when someone offers to solve a failed corporate objective?
I don't know why them Microsoft fellas would be interested in keepin'
us from getting processed meat products from a good ole 'merican
company like Hormel.
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MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
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PLEASE delete this comment ;)for why?
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SSAS Authentication
Hello.
I have an SSAS database with multiple cubes. Each cube has ADS Groups assigned to them through role assignments; with users assigned to each group.
However, my users cannot connect to the SSAS database; the server actively refuses the connection. I spoke with colleagues and they assured me that the company does not allow members of staff to log into the servers directly (obviously for security reasons). So now I have no idea how to tackle this problem. I would like my users to browse the cube but they cannot have permissions to the server for logging in.
Can someone offer some suggestion as to my options for this predicament?
:(
Most of our users have Excel 2007 so powerpivot is not an option. The SSAS DB is SSAS 2008 R2.
Thanks, Nick.
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that the company does not allow members of staff to log into the servers directly
Hello Nick,
It doesn't matter if the users can logon to the server e.g. using RDP client. You have to manage the logons and security in you SSAS project, means you have to add the Windows account to the permissions settings in you SSAS project / SSAS database.
Olaf Helper
* cogito ergo sum * errare humanum est * quote erat demonstrandum *
Wenn ich denke, ist das ein Fehler und das beweise ich täglich
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Snapshot of Merge publication with dynamic row filtering
Convert DTS to SSIS | Document SSIS | 30+ SSIS Tasks | Real-time SSIS Monitoring | Quick Starts | BI Blitz
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I think I may have found my answer.
When I did not have a dynamic snapshot available, it went through the enumeration process as it would do during a normal synchronization as I see this in the MSmerge_history for that session_id which tells me there was no data in the snapshot
| Enumerating inserts and updates in article 'Client' |
| Downloaded 164 change(s) in 'Client' (164 inserts): 264 total |
As a second test I create a dynamic snapshot for that partition before setting up the subscription and now I see messages like this below
Bulk copying data into table 'Client' as it is reading form the dynamic snapshot files.
Summary, when using dynamic row filtering and overriding HOST_NAME(), make sure you set up dynamic snapshots ahead of time to have just that partition's data ready in bcp files to be propogated to the subscriber
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Weird MAK activation problem
I have an unattend.xml script that uses slmgr.vbs /ipk XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX and slmgr.vbs /ato to automatically activate Windows 7 Enterprise x64 with a MAK key. Now when I use the same unattend script on my Windows 7 Enterprise x64 SP1 image, the slmgr.vbs scripts do not successfully activate windows but if I type the same key from Computer -> Properties -> Windows Activation in the GUI it works correctly. I am thinking that something isn't right with the Key but it is the key that I got off of the VLSC web site and Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 both have the same key listed. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Jim.
jmallory@mcesa.k12.mi.us
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Have you troubleshoot KNS accorsing to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee939272.aspx ?
Rgds
Milos
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How to get a list of applications discovered out of MAP
Disclaimer:
Option 1:
select * from Get_UI_ProductResults ()
Note: If you copy/paste the query and get an error, try manually typing it. Sometimes hidden characters or alternate versions of characters get substituted by the browser and can't be read by SQL Server.
Option 2:
- Create a view in SQL Server Management Studio:
- Find the database with the info you want
- Find the 'Views' folder and right-click
- Select 'New View…'
- In the 'Add Table' dialogue box, go to the 'Functions' tab
- Select 'Get_UI_ProductsResults'
- Click Add
- Click Close
- In the function box, choose Computer Name, Name, ProductVersion, ProductVendor
- Go to File » Save and choose a name for the view
Once you have created this view, you can open Excel on the machine with MAP installed and use the data connection from other sources to import that view into Excel and manipulate the data any way you want. - Connect Excel 2010 to the SQL Server database:
- Click on the 'Data' tab
- In the 'Get External Data' area, choose 'From Other Sources'
- Choose 'From SQL Server'
- Enter the server name with instance, i.e. YourComputerName\MAPS
- From the drop down list, select the database that you created the view in
- Find and Select the view you created above
- Click Finish
- Choose how you want to view the data
Note: I prefer to import the data as a table so I can see the data in a "raw" format before I create a pivot table.
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- Edited by Michael Switzer01 Friday, February 24, 2012 7:09 PM Added note for possible query error
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Thanks for the guide! I have been looking for a way to do this for a long time!
Kinds regards
Karl Jørgen Weme
MCP
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Thanks, this was a hack I came up with to address a common request from people, and we're still looking for a way to present this info in a way that won't exceed the Excel limits when reporting data from large environments. That said, we did add a custom SQL View to 7.0 that is targeted at presenting this information in a more comprehensive way so you can use Pivot Tables to see the data in all kinds of interesting ways. Since MAP 7.0 introduces the use of LocalDB if you don't already have your own "MAPS" instance of SQL Server running, there are some additional considerations when trying to export the data from Excel.
We have a full set of directions for exporting the new view into Excel in this blog post: http://blogs.technet.com/b/mapblog/archive/2012/07/09/planning-for-desktop-virtualization-with-the-map-toolkit-7-0-4-of-4.aspx
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Windows 7 Will not accept an Immediate task through GPO
Problem is related to KB# 977353
Hotfix for 977353 is supposed to be already patched in SP1 (according to MS concierge support)
The problem is that when we set up a group policy preference to schedule a task, or to make an immediate task, to install a program the task does not run.
We have tried to set the trigger of the application at logon and/or during idle time. We have tried enabling/disabling run at highest privleges. We have tried enabling run if user is logged on or not. We have made sure the bottom "Configure for" is set to Windows 7.
The program we are trying to run is an MSI.
The System Specs: x64 Windows 7 SP1 (Failure on multiple systems, 0% success, chat support had the same failure on their system)
Ideas...?
- Changed type Cloud_TS Monday, August 6, 2012 1:38 AM redirect
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Hi,
This type issue is more related to the configuration on Server site. Please post this problem on Server Forum.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/category/windowsserver/
In addition, please refer to this. It may be helpful.
Configure an Immediate Task Item (Windows Vista and later versions)
Kim Zhou
TechNet Community Support
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Thanks for the reply - I have reposted this to the Server specific forum.
The link you provided unfortunately did not help resolve the issue. Windows still will not accept the Task that is scheduled through the GPO. This is apparently a known issue that has not been fixed successfully.
Best Regards - Daniel
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Windows Server 2012 does not create cluster successfully, Windows 2008 R2 SP1 does
I have 3 2012 VMs, a DC and two windows servers. I use the domain admin account to create a windows cluster between the two windows servers and the cluster never configures DNS and it complains the network name is offline once created. subsequent configuration of the cluster does not go well.
I do the exact same thing in windows 2008 R2 SP1 and it goes perfectly smoothly. There is clearly some kind of difference between granted permissions or something.
Please mark my response as an answer if appropriate.
Learn.SharePoint.com
- Changed type Vincent Hu Thursday, August 9, 2012 9:31 AM
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Hi,
In order to perform the further research, please help me to collect the following information:
1. Where did you run the 3 virtual machines? Did you run them on Hyper-V?
2. Did you run cluster validation before you create the cluster?
3. What's the network configuration on the cluster nodes?
By the way, please check the following guides to see whether there is any misconfiguration.
Hyper-V Guest Clustering Step-by-Step Guide
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mghazai/archive/2009/12/12/hyper-v-guest-clustering-step-by-step-guide.aspx
Hyper-V Guest Clustering
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sainfrateam/archive/2011/05/09/hyper-v-guest-clustering.aspx
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HyperV 2008 R2 SP1
Yes, the cluster validation passed
Both DHCP and static IP were tried
The problem I am encountering with the 2012 RC is the clusters ability to register DNS entries, even though I created the cluster as a domain admin. The end goal is to configure SQL alwayson in the 2012 RC. If other people have done this than nevermind this post, but if other people are having problems...
Please mark my response as an answer if appropriate.
Learn.SharePoint.com
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Hi,
Please provide details of the error, thanks for your understanding.
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Don Geddes - SR Support Escalation Engineer - Remote Desktop Services - Printing and Imaging
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Move Favourites Bar in IE9 to Avoid Confusion with Tabs
I find in IE9 that I repeatedly confuse the favourites bar with the tabs of pages that I have open. Therefore, I keep opening my favourites over the top of pages I want to keep open rather than (my wanted action of) navigating to a tab containing my (already opened) favourite.
Is there any way to dock the favourites bar at the bottom of the screen instead? I find the appearance of tabs to be so minor in the interface that they blend too easily with the favourites bar.
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Hi,
Based on my research, this is by design. You can not dock the favorutes bar at the bottom of the screen.
But you can choose display the Link Toolbar in the Task Bar.
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Migrating Exchange 2010 rollup 4 The Microsoft Exchange Address Book service doesnt start
Outlook clients couldnt connect to users mailboxes on CAS role.
Making use of Exchange 2007 CAS mailboxes do resolve in outlook but users cant open shared calendars and resources
With help of Microsoft support we were able to find that the service Microsoft Exchange Address Book uses same port 6004 as outlook anywhere. Now with catch 22 if i change OWA port 6004 the Microsoft Exchange Address Book service starts great but have problems with OWA and RPC. We are still working on it, just hoping somebody has a fix for this already
Has anyone came accross this problem and fixed it
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Have you hard-coded the ports? I have never heard of this issue.
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It is a new install with default settings. We found the port conflict with PortQry.
Thank you for the reply.
Ok we have found it
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\NTDS\Parameters\NSPI interface protocol sequences] with port bind 6004.
You should not delete this if the server is a Global Catalog server!!!!!!!!!
In my case it was not. I deleted it and restarted server. Now it is working
If it is a BDC adding the global catalog role also worked with out deleting the Regedit.
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Dont mess with the outlook nspi port leave that as default 6004. Just change the address book service to use another static port. Go to the bottom of the article for instructions.
James Chong MCITP | EA | EMA; MCSE | M+, S+ Security+, Project+, ITIL msexchangetips.blogspot.com
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Working with SQL Aliases - Unable to protect Sharepoint Farm
Hi Guys,
I'm working on SharePoint 2007 migration and my customer is using SQl Aliases.
SharePoint Farm will be protected with DPM 2010.
All prerequisites for DPM (QFE1&2) and Sharepoint (SP2 + Fix) is done.
I followed this article to configure SQl Aliases for both 32bits & 64Bits:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2543859
Running "ConfigureSharepoint.exe -enableSharepointProtection" is ok
Running "ConfigureSharepoint.exe -enableSPSearchProtection" is ok
Running "ConfigureSharepoint.exe -ResolveAllSQLAliases" is also ok, this gave me all SLQ aliases for all the DB:
Database Name: DB01, Alias Name: OldSQLServer\OldSQLInstance, Logical Path: NewSQlServer\NewSQLInstance.
Database Name: DB02, Alias Name: OldSQLServer\OldSQLInstance, Logical Path: NewSQlServer\NewSQLInstance.
Database Name: DB03, Alias Name: OldSQLServer\OldSQLInstance, Logical Path: NewSQlServer\NewSQLInstance.
Database Name: DBxx, Alias Name: OldSQLServer\OldSQLInstance, Logical Path: NewSQlServer\NewSQLInstance.
But when I try to create my Protection Group to protect Sharepoint Farm this give me this error :
DPM cannot protect your Windows SharePoint Services farm until you install agents on the following servers : OldSQLServer.FQDN (ID: 956)
Edit: DiskShadow gave me this output:
Diskshadow list writers
+ Component "SharePoint Services Writer:\OldSQLServer\OldInstance\SharePoint_Config"
- Name: SharePoint_Config
- Logical path: OldSQLServer\OldInstance
- Full path: \OldSQLServer\OldInstance\SharePoint_Config
- Caption: Configuration Database SharePoint_Config
- Type: VSS_CT_DATABASE [1]
- Is selectable: TRUE
- Is top level: TRUE
- Notify on backup complete: FALSE
- Paths affected by this component:
- Volumes affected by this component:
Same thing for all of others DB. It's seem that SQL Aliases are not resolved ?
Stephane
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- Edited by Stephane LADUNE Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:38 AM
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Hi Stephane,
Check out this post: http://www.ms4u.info/2011/07/dpm-cannot-protect-your-windows.html. It has the same error as yours.
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Hi Buchatech,
I set SQL aliases (for 32bits/64bits) through Cliconfg and Sql Server Configuration Manager.
All my settings seem's to be fine but it's still not working.
Any other idea ? :)
Stephane.
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When I try to set Sharepoint protection, in "WssCmdletsWrapperCurr" file, I found :
wsscmdletswrapperfactory.cpp(235) ACTIVITY Principal name HOST/xxxx@xxxx
WSSCmdlets.cs(1183) NORMAL Sql Instance Name = OldSQLServer\OldSQlInstance
WssSqlAliasHelper.cs(442) NORMAL SqlAliasResolutionDisabled = False
WssSqlAliasHelper.cs(319) NORMAL connecting to [wmiNamespace root\Microsoft\SqlServer\ComputerManagement]
WssSqlAliasHelper.cs(487) NORMAL adding [aliasName:OldSQLServer\OldSQLInstance], [serverName:NewSQLSERVER] to SqlAliasAndServerNameMappings
WssSqlAliasHelper.cs(319) NORMAL connecting to [wmiNamespace root\Microsoft\SqlServer\ComputerManagement10]
WssSqlAliasHelper.cs(344) NORMAL WMI namespace not found
WssSqlAliasHelper.cs(495) NORMAL count of the list of all aliases: 1
WssSqlAliasHelper.cs(179) NORMAL Unable to get the server name for the [SqlAlias: NewSQlServer\NewSQLInstance]
I don't know if it's relevant ?
Stephane
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Hi,
After a couple of tests, I found some new informations in "WssCmdletsWrapperCurr" file :
- When running ConfigureSharepoint.exe -ResolveAllSQLAliases -
wsscmdletswrapperfactory.cpp(235) ACTIVITY Principal name HOST/xxxx@xxxx
WssSqlAliasHelper.cs(442) NORMAL SqlAliasResolutionDisabled = False
WssSqlAliasHelper.cs(319) NORMAL connecting to [wmiNamespace root\Microsoft\SqlServer\ComputerManagement]
WssSqlAliasHelper.cs(487) NORMAL adding [aliasName:OldSqlServer\OldInstance], [serverName:NewSqlServer] to SqlAliasAndServerNameMappings
WssSqlAliasHelper.cs(319) NORMAL connecting to [wmiNamespace root\Microsoft\SqlServer\ComputerManagement10]
WssSqlAliasHelper.cs(344) NORMAL WMI namespace not found
WssSqlAliasHelper.cs(495) NORMAL count of the list of all aliases: 1
WssSqlAliasHelper.cs(375) NORMAL Getting SPDatabase for [databaseName: SharePoint_Config], [instanceName: OldSqlServer\OldInstance]
WssSqlAliasHelper.cs(406) NORMAL Found corresponding SPDatabase object
WssDatabaseHelper.cs(255) NORMAL Getting the logical path for [fullInstanceName NewSqlServer\NewSQLInstance],[SpDatabase.Name SharePoint_Config]
WssDatabaseHelper.cs(308) NORMAL Database does not exist or is not mirrored
WssDatabaseHelper.cs(272) NORMAL returning [sqlLogicalPath NewSqlServer\NewSqlInstance]
WssSqlAliasHelper.cs(375) NORMAL Getting SPDatabase for [databaseName: WSS_Content_xxxx], [instanceName: OldSqlServer\OldInstance]
WssSqlAliasHelper.cs(406) NORMAL Found corresponding SPDatabase object
WssDatabaseHelper.cs(255) NORMAL Getting the logical path for [fullInstanceName NewSqlServer\NewSqlInstance],[SpDatabase.Name WSS_Content_xxxx]
WssDatabaseHelper.cs(308) NORMAL Database does not exist or is not mirrored
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I have WssDatabaseHelper.cs(308) NORMAL Database does not exist or is not mirrored for all my database ?
Does someone have an idea of what it's mean ?
I check on SQL server for any "Access denied" on instance/db but all seem's to be ok...
Stephane.
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Change Data Capture With SSIS 2008
Hi All,
I would like to share an documnet which helps you to achieve CDC step by step process if there any mistakes or thoughts would be added please let me know.
Here is the Link for the doucment https://skydrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=6AEBF8592FF08FE9!110&app=Word
I thought this would be helpful for SSIS Beginners.
Sri.Tummala
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Sri.Tummala
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Hi All,
I would like to share an documnet which helps you to achieve CDC step by step process if there any mistakes or thoughts would be added please let me know.
Here is the Link for the doucment https://skydrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=6AEBF8592FF08FE9!110&app=Word
I thought this would be helpful for SSIS Beginners.
Sri.Tummala
Hi All,
I extended this doucmnet with an real time example hope you guys feel easy to build a pacakge using change data capture
https://skydrive.live.com/view.aspx?cid=6AEBF8592FF08FE9&resid=6AEBF8592FF08FE9%21105
Sri.Tummala
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Any way to rename a folder containing in-place records?
Hello. I am using in-place records management. A situation has arison in which I need to rename a set of folders. Unfortunately most of these fodlers contain decalred records, and so Sharepoint refuses to allow me to do this, saying:
Folder cannot be deleted because it contains items which are either on hold or declared as records.
I could write a program that steps through the document library, and undeclares the record - renames folder - then re-declares record, but that would take time that I'm short of at the moment.
Does anybody know of any other way to do this, or any third party software that could do the job for me?
- Edited by collydog9 Thursday, January 26, 2012 3:02 PM
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Unfortunately you're going to be stuck, since the whole point of declaring a record is to lock it down. But I'm wondering if most of the files are locked in your document library if it's possible with your senario to be able to
- Copy the files down to your PC, make folder changes there.
- create a secondary document libary and under library settings->record declaration settings make sure the automatically declare iteams as records when added to the list is checked.
- copy the files into it.
- Lock down the first doc library so nobody has access to it.
It's going to play havok with docIDs and shortcut URLs, but at least the UI portion will look clean to the users.
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>>Unfortunately you're going to be stuck, since the whole point of declaring a record is to lock it down
I know :( I was just hoping that as it is the folder name changing (and not the document) I might be able to do something, since in reality the folder is just another content typed item in the list. However the more I think about it, the more issues I see, for example changing the folder name in reality means changing part of the document item's schema data such as the FileRef and FileRefLeaf meta data etc.
Although you have a good idea, it's not going to work in this case as the documents are all in a custom content type with custom meta-data that is absolutely essential to keep.
I might be able to do a list backup, and then mess with the xml file it produces to change the folder names and FileRef etc, but that sounds like a recipe for disaster :) I wonder if anyone has ever tried this?
- Edited by collydog9 Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:25 PM
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I solved this writing some code and using the SP object model. the SPFolder.CopyTo method seems to do eveything I need (copying all properties including record declaration status). The only thing that doesn't seem to come across is the "checked out to System account" check-out status you get with in place declared records, but the record declaration flag is set. I can manually remove the old folder structure after copying the content.
If it helps anybody in the future, here is what I did (formPath & toPath are strings pointing to the "from" and "to" folders):
Uri transFromPath = new Uri(fromPath); Uri transToPath = new Uri(toPath); if (sourceWeb.GetFolder(transFromPath.AbsoluteUri).Exists && !sourceWeb.GetFolder(transToPath.AbsoluteUri).Exists) { SPFolder oFolderSrc = sourceWeb.GetFolder(transFromPath.AbsoluteUri); oFolderSrc.CopyTo(transToPath.AbsoluteUri); oFolderSrc.Update(); } - Edited by collydog9 Thursday, August 2, 2012 10:54 AM
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win 8 public product keys dont work
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Carey Frisch
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Did you install the latest version Windows 8 Release Preview.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/download
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Did you install the latest version Windows 8 Release Preview.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/download
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What if I've got an enterprise image by accident. It is a waste of my time forcing me to reinstall it. Fix your USER EXPERIENCE!!!
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Did you install the latest version Windows 8 Release Preview.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/download
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What if I've got an enterprise image by accident. It is a waste of my time forcing me to reinstall it. Fix your USER EXPERIENCE!!!
Thanks for letting us know of your error.
Carey Frisch
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Is Online Education Apps are on High Demand ?
- Edited by Tutor Earth Wednesday, August 1, 2012 11:02 PM
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Yes, I think so.
Ghost,
Call me ghost for short, Thanks
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Multi Content Collection with Multi Pipeline and FAST specific connectors - FS4SP
Hi Experts,
This is an idea. What do you think?
- Created a new pipeline in the pipelineconfig.xml (copied pasted the office14 pipeline and just changed the name). Restarted the procserver and configserver and made sure the new pipeline was created.
- Created a new content collection (New-FASTSearchContentCollection -Name test -Description 'testing to map a new pipeline' -Pipeline 'custompipeline (webcluster)')
- docpushed an item to the new 'test' collection (docpush -c test -u file:/// F:\Others\WhoHasTheDisease.txt) - Noticed that the 'custompipeline (webcluster)' was used to process the pushed item.
- Test the same with JDBC connector and notice the same.
Now that we can create multi pipeline and mulit content collection and make it work, can we conclude that Fast Search for SP supports multi-pipeline just like the legacy ESP?
The idea may sound stupid at first but for someone who is trying to migrate an ESP instance to FS4SP, this is a big deal. To give a glimps, we have around 15 custom pipelines in our ESP and normalizing and boiling them down to one single office14 pipeline is a nightmare.
Do you guys find any potholes in this idea?
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And if only we can create multi Content SSA in one SP farm and have only one common Query SSA then one can very well use seperate pipelines for each of the ContentSource irrespective of the connectors.
What you folks feel?
Much Thanks!!
Freddie Maize ..A story with Glory is History. Doesn't matter whether Glory rest in the world of Demon or God. Lets create History..
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H Freddie,
AFAIK, changing pipelineconfig.xml is basically not supported by Microsoft.
Amir
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Hi Amir,
Pipelineconfig is a very basic config file and we should be able to change it without any trouble, as long as we know what we are doing. Hope this helps!!
Freddie Maize ..A story with Glory is History. Doesn't matter whether Glory rest in the world of Demon or God. Lets create History..
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Hi,
I agree that multi-pipeline is supported function wise, even though it's not a "supported support scenario by Microsoft". Basically you can do in FS4SP like you do in ESP (more or less) as the config files are similar.
Again it comes down to maintainability vs. production gain :)
Thanks,
Mikael Svenson
Search Enthusiast - SharePoint MVP/MCT/MCPD
http://techmikael.blogspot.com/
Author of Working with FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint
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>> Again it comes down to maintainability vs. production gain
Precisely this!! along with Performance ofcourse.
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problems with network share with Windows 7 and Windows XP Embedded
Hi, my case is this:
Pc01 with Windows 7 64 bit in Domain with static Ip Address
Pc02 with Windows xp pro sp3 in Domain with static Ip Address
Pc03 with Windows xp embedded out od Domain with a Shared Folder (ex: Documents) with static Ip Address and with same DNS of the other Pc's
My problems:
From Pc02 i can access trought a shared name \\pc03\Documents without problem, only the request of Id and Password (in my case the local administrator).
otherwise if I try to access from Pc01 to same share (\\pc03\documents), i have the request of the id and password but don't work the access.
if i try to diagnosticate from Windows 7 tools, it tell to me that the system can't access to admin share IPC$.
Any idea for solve my problem?
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Hi,
We may test the issue via the steps below in PC1.
1. Click Start, type in Secpol.msc and press Enter.
2. Expand "Local Policies" and select "Security Options"
3. Locate "Network Security: LAN Manager Authentication Level" in the list and double-click it.
4. Change the setting from "Send NTMLv2 response only" to "Send LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 session if negotiated"
5. Network Security: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP Based (including secure RPC) Clients
6. Change the setting from "require 128 bit" to unchecked (No Minimum)
7. Click OK, and exit.
Kim Zhou
TechNet Community Support
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Hotmail to Outlook
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William Zhou
TechNet Community Support
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Cheers,
Drew
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is the 1000 limit for a cutover Exchange migration a "hard" limit
thanks
what would happen to the 1001 mailbox?
- Edited by Hodgymac Tuesday, July 17, 2012 4:18 PM
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Hi Hodgy,
The 1000 limit is for a "batch". So, if you have 5000 users to migrate, you need to have atleast 5 batches of mailboxes to move. You can have less than 1000 mailboxes in a batch, it is all upto you.
The 1000 limit doesn't mean that you can't migrate more than 1000 mailboxes into Exchange Online.
Rajith Enchiparambil | http://www.howexchangeworks.com |
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okay, there seems to be conflicting answers in the two above posts
which one is correct
- Edited by Hodgymac Wednesday, August 1, 2012 11:48 AM
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Hodgy,
You can create a number of "batches" of migration jobs. You dont really have to have 1000 in first batch. You can have just one mailbox in first, then maybe a 500 in second etc. I think you get the point.
Rajith Enchiparambil | http://www.howexchangeworks.com |
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Hi Hodgy,
I missed the title of the thread. Yes, there is a limit of 1000 mailboxes that you can migrate using cutover method.
A company can migrate a maximum of 1,000 Exchange 2003, 2007 or 2010 mailboxes to the cloud using a cutover Exchange migration. To migrate more than 1,000 Exchange 2003 or 2007 mailboxes, you can perform a staged Exchange migration.
If you have more than 1000 mailboxes and the source is Exchange 2010, a hybrid migration is needed. 2010 source does not support staged migration.
Rajith Enchiparambil | http://www.howexchangeworks.com |
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