How to Perform Windows Server 2008 Complete Server Backup and Restore

How to Perform Windows Server 2008 Complete Server Backup and Restore

Video Tutorials
Windows Server 2008 contains new and updated features to help you create backups and, if needed, perform a recovery of your operating system, applications, and data. You can recover your server operating system or full server by using Windows Recovery Environment and a backup that you created earlier with Windows Server Backup. Using the Windows Recovery Environment on Windows Server 2008 you can perform a bare-metal restore to recover your server operating system or the entire server itself. An operating system restore will only recover critical drive volumes that contain system components. If you would like to restore all volumes, you will need to conduct a full server recovery.
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How to Perform Step by Step Exchange 2010 Single Mailbox Item Restore with Windows Server Backup

Exchange, Video Tutorials
Exchange Server 2010 no longer has the notion of Storage Groups, which were used in Exchange 2007 and 2003 to contain logical groupings of databases. Exchange 2010 now simply lets you create databases on mailbox servers. The difference is that in Exchange 2003/2007, you created a Recover Storage Group (RSG) to restore the database into. In Exchange 2010, you simply restore the database and connect to it as a Recovery Database (RDB). While the main purpose of Exchange backup is to enable server, storage, and datacenter disaster recovery scenarios, a common and routine request of Exchange admins is to restore an individual mailbox. Microsoft does not provide a native and fully automated way to granularly restore a single mailbox from an Exchange database backup. In this video I'll demonstrate the…
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SSH Connection: Wait long after entering username – ssh password prompt delay

Linux
When I make ssh connection I get long wait just after entering username. It's most likely that ssh daemon  is set up to do a DNS reverse-lookup on the host that's connecting. So, sshd try to find reverse DNS record for a while before prompting you password. If you do not want to wait,  you can either add your client's ip and hostname information to /etc/hosts file on linux or you can disable reverse dns lookup in /etc/ssh/sshd_config 1- Open your terminal window 2- Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config 3- Add UseDNS no at the end 4- Restart your ssh daemon
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How to Install SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 for Data Protection Manager 2010

System Center, Video Tutorials
A System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 installation includes two primary tasks: installing the DPM prerequisite software and installing the DPM application. The DPM Setup Wizard guides you through the process of specifying the DPM installation settings, and automatically installs the prerequisite software as part of an integrated DPM installation process. Important Note: DPM 2010 is not supported on the Turkish language version of Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2. Supported Databases For the DPM database, DPM 2010 requires a dedicated instance of the 64-bit or 32-bit version of any of the following SQL Server versions: SQL Server 2008 with Service Pack 3 SQL Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1 When you use a remote instance of SQL Server with the DPM 2010 installation, you must install the remote instance of SQL Server before you install DPM 2010.
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How to Install VMware vCenter Server 5.1 U1 with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 on Windows Server 2012

Video Tutorials, vSphere
it’s possible to install vCenter Server on Windows Server 2012. Also a Microsoft SQL 2012 is supported as an external database. Since the vSphere 5.1, the architecture of vCenter has changed and another database is present – SSO (single sign on database). So there are three databases for vCenter: VMware vSphere 5.1 Single Sign-On VMware vSphere vCenter server VMware Update Manager All those database can be installed on a separate Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (this post) or on the same VM as vCenter server. SQL 2008R2 Express is still the database which is bundled with the VMware vSphere. VMware vCenter Server VM requirements: 64-bit system DSN to connect to its database I recommend getting the latest patches from Microsoft before going further.
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Iomega StorCenter NAS ix4-200d Server Front and Rear Panel Buttons and Status Indicators

Iomega StorCenter NAS ix4-200d Server Front and Rear Panel Buttons and Status Indicators

Storage
1. LCD: Your StorCenter ix4-200d NAS device has an integrated user-friendly LCD display. Scroll through the display screen to view the device name, free disk space, IP address, and date and time. You can initiate a QuikTransfer Copy Job from the LCD and view or dismiss any errors or warnings without having to turn on your computer. 2. CANCEL Button: Push the CANCEL button to dismiss the current message (works only on messages that have the X icon on the LCD next to the CANCEL button). 3. NEXT Button: Push the NEXT button to scroll to the next StorCenter info screen. 4. Status Indicators: System Status Indicator: Displays the current operational status of the StorCenter Server. Solid White: StorCenter is healthy. Flashing White: StorCenter is rebuilding the RAID array. Flashing…
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How to Backup and Restore Exchange 2010 Mailbox Database with DPM 2010

How to Backup and Restore Exchange 2010 Mailbox Database with DPM 2010

Exchange, System Center, Video Tutorials
DPM 2010 supports the following five types of recovery for Exchange Server 2010 mailbox databases: Recover the database to its original location: Overwrite the existing copy of the database. Recover the database to an alternate database: Restore to another database on an Exchange Server. Recover to an Exchange Recovery database: Recover to an Exchange Recovery database instead of a standard mailbox database. Recover to network location: Copy the database to a network folder. Copy to tape: Create an on-tape copy of the database.
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Do you want to go to http://SiteName? – Disable One-word Intranet Site Suggestion – Internet Explorer

Do you want to go to http://SiteName? – Disable One-word Intranet Site Suggestion – Internet Explorer

Microsoft
Internet Explorer 9 will not navigate directly to an intranet site for a one-word entry in the Address bar. When you attempt to browse to this site using Internet Explorer 9, it responds by taking you to your default search engine to look for that word. Cause: Internet Explorer 9 combines the address bar and the search box. The default behavior is to use a single word entry as search criteria. This can be changed by Users or Group Policy Settings as described in the Solution section. Solution 1  - Using Tools Menu in IE9 : 1-  Click Internet Options 2- click the Advanced tab, check the option Go to an intranet site for a single word entry in the Address bar. Solution 2 - Using Group Policy : 1- Expand User Configuration,…
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WinRM service failed to create the following SPNs: WSMAN – Event ID:10154

WinRM service failed to create the following SPNs: WSMAN – Event ID:10154

Linux, Windows Server
I was getting an error " The WinRM service failed to create the following SPNs: WSMAN/hostname; WSMAN/hostname. " at startup on Windows 2008 R2 Domain Controllers. Additional Data Log Name: System Source:  Microsoft-Windows-WinRM Event ID: 10154 Level:  Warning Solution: WinRM runs under " Network Service " account. You can eliminate this problem by giving Validated Write to Service Principal Name  permission to the NETWORK SERVICE using the ADSIEDIT.msc. This will allow WinRM to auto create the necessary SPNs on that domain controller. After granting this permission, re-sync all DCs and do a reboot to each domain controller where you did the change,  after that reboot you will see that the warning is gone and the required SPNs were created successfully. Steps: 1- Use ADSIEDIT.msc 2- Choose Default naming context and…
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