The process by which Data Protection Manager checks for and corrects inconsistencies between a protected data source and its replica stored on the DPM server. A consistency check is performed only when normal mechanisms for recording changes to protected data, and for applying those changes to replicas, have been interrupted. Consistency checks can be scheduled or run manually depending on protection requirements.

This is the Exchange page in the Data Protection Manager 2007 section of the System Center WIKI at System Center Central.

There’s a great series on protecting Exchange 2007 with DPM 2007 at msexchange.org. The first part of the series focuses on backup and the last part on recovery.

Continuous Backup for Exchange Server with DPM 2007 (Part 1)
Continuous Backup for Exchange Server with DPM 2007 (Part 2)
Continuous Backup for Exchange Server with DPM 2007 (Part 3)
Continuous Backup for Exchange Server with DPM 2007 (Part 4)

For additional info on DPM, as well as DPM scripts, goto the DPM homepage here on the WIKI.

This is the Software Update Point Troubleshooting page in the Configuration Manager 2007 section of the System Center WIKI at System Center Central.

The following information was submitted by Dominik Heinz.

General Concepts

WSUS Infrastructure: 4

SCCM Update Deployment: 4

Update Installation Process: 4

In Detail: 5

Compliance Scan on Client 6

Possible issues. 7

Downloaded updates cannot be stored within the cache. 8

Troubleshooting steps: 8

General information about the cache: 9

Updates fail to install 10

Appendix. 12

Links. 12

Clear Cache Script: 13


General Concepts WSUS Infrastructure:


The WSUS infrastructure is ONLY used for compliance scanningThe WU Agent on the client is only used for compliance Scanning

The SCCM server manages the WSUS Server service. To accomplish this, SCCM connects to the WSUS dlls using a proprietary API called Software Update Point. In order to provide the needed WSUS dlls, yo

This is the Hyper-V Webcasts page on the System Center WIKI at System Center Central


MSN.COM Hyper-V Videos:

Hyper-V Architecture Demonstration

Getting to Know Hyper-V

Introduction to server virtualization

Hyper-V Part 1 - The Architecture 1/2

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Installation

Hypervisor is not running error: How to fix

Hyper-V R2: Building a Hyper-V R2 Cluster

Hyper-V Live Migration - Windows Server 2008 R2 Demo Screencast 1 of 4

Hyper-V and NetApp Storage Part 1: Storage Configuration

Hyper-V and NetApp Storage Part 2: Cluster Building

Hyper-V R2: Making Highly Available VMs

Hyper-V R2: Introducing Cluster Shared Volumes

Ben Armstrong on Hyper-V Snapshot Issues

Microsoft System Center Management for Virtualization

Microsoft Solution Accelerators and Virtualization Projects

Microsoft Virtualization Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 at MMS

Bing Hyper-V Videos:

Virtualization at TechEd09 2/2

Hyper-V 2008 R2 – Configuring

This is the Hyper-V Terminology page on the System Center WIKI at System Center Central. The following are some common terms and acronyms associated with Hyper-V. There is also a list of updated terminology released in early 2008 as well
APIC – Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller – A device which allows priority levels to be assigned to its interrupt outputs.
Child Partition – Partition that hosts a guest operating system - All access to physical memory and devices by a child partition is provided via the Virtual Machine Bus (VMBus) or the hypervisor.
Hypercall – Interface for communication with the hypervisor - The hypercall interface accommodates access to the optimizations provided by the hypervisor.
Hypervisor – A layer of software that sits between the hardware and one or more operating systems. Its primary job is to provide isolated execution environments called partitions. The hypervisor controls and arbitrates access to the underlying hardware.
IC – Integrat

This is the Hyper-V page in the System Center WIKI at System Center Central.


Microsoft Hyper-V, formerly known as Windows Server Virtualization, is a hypervisor-based virtualization system for x64 systems was released on June 26th, 2008.

A free stand-alone version of Hyper-V, called Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 was released on October 1, 2008, which is a variant of Windows Server 2008 Core that includes full Hyper-V functionality; other Windows 2008 Server Roles are disabled, and there are limited Windows Services. The free 64 bit Hyper-V Core version is limited to a command line interface (CLI), where configuration of the Host or Parent (Hyper-V Core Server) O/S, physical hardware and software is done using shell commands. A new menu driven CLI interface does simplify initial configuration considerably, and some freely downloadable script files extend this concept.

Administration and Configuration

Administration and configuration of the Host (Hyper-V Core Server O/S) an

This is the Authentication and Security page on the System Center WIKI at System Center Central.


Mutual Authentication takes one of two forms in Operations Manager – 1) Kerberos or 2) Certificate Authentication. This is a list of authentication failures compiled by Pete Zerger based on field experience and his MMS 2008 presentation on Gateway Scenarios in OpsMgr 2007 SP1, which can be downloaded HERE. Having helped many dozens (perhaps hundreds) of OpsMgr administrators troubleshoot mutual authentication issues, I have encountered many different scenarios. Here is a list of event IDs and potential explanations you may find helpful.


The following is a list of mutual authentication-related error messages and some general indicators of source cause. Some errors are Kerberos-related issues (like SPN problems) and some are related to certificate authentication. These errors are are also applicable to System Center Essentials 2007

Event ID

Description

Explanation


20

This is the Overrides page in Operations Manager 2007 secion in the System Center WIKI at SystemCenterCentral.com

Best Practice for overrides is coverd in depth in the following TechNet article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/943239

Create a new MP to store overrides for each version of a management pack. If you import the three SQL 2005 MP’s, create a separate a overrides MP for each MP (SQL 2000, 2005 and 2008). Any overrides you create that are targeted at SQL 2005 types, you should store them in that overrides MP you created for that version

Creating a new management pack for storing overrides has the following advantages:
It simplifies the process of exporting customizations that were created in your test and pre-production environments to your production environment. For example, instead of exporting a default management pack that contains customizations from multiple management packs, you can export just the management pack that contains customization

Information related to Audit Collection Services, part of Operations Manager 2007 on the System Center WIKI.

ACS Microsoft Knowledge Base Articles

The list below summarizes Microsoft Knowledge Base articles relevant to the Audit Collection Services at the release of SCOM R2.

List of issues that are fixed in System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971410/; relating to ACS:

o 949969 Some data partition tables that exceed the data retention period are not groomed from the Audit Collection Services database in Operations Manager 2007

o 954329 An Audit Collection Service forwarder may be unable to retrieve the distinguished name for the ObjectGUID in the collected events in System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

o 954948 The audit collection service (ACS) fails when the ACS is configured for a grooming retention policy that is greater than 256 days in System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

o 9519

Information related to Audit Collection Services, part of Operations Manager 2007 on the System Center WIKI.

ACS Events

By default the Audit Collection Forwarder and Collector services writes events to the local Operations Manager log to track changes and problems with service initialization, health and availability. In addition verbose logging can be enabled temporarily to provide more detailed information when troubleshooting installation and configuration issues.

Collector Intrinsic Events

This list represents the events generated on Collectors.

Note: Collector events are written to the Operations Manager log and also written to the ACS queue. When filtering data for queries, alerts or reports it is important to know many of the default Collector events share the same Event ID with Windows Server 2008 security events. In these cases users must also filter by the log source, _acs_src, for more accurate results.

Event ID

Description


4609

The Audit Collecto