During my daily work I encounter a lot of confusion about this topic. Let’s first discuss couple of basic things about the backup of Active Directory and why it is so important to use a Microsoft supported solution. When we are in a Disaster Recovery scenario and we need to restore our Active Directory...
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2019 Update Rollup 1 available
The first update rollup for SCVMM 2019 has been release by Microsoft on February 4th. This fixes several issues: Unable to add Windows Server 2019 hosts in untrusted domain to SCVMM. Changes to VM network adapter or VM network overwrites associated ACL. Unable to pull LLDP information on pNICs bount to a vSwitch. Long running service template deployments time out after 3 hours. Timeout parameter can now...
System Center Virtual Machine Manager ports and protocols.
Port and protocol exceptions Connect Port/protocol Details Configure VMM server to VMM agent on Windows Server-based hosts/remote library server 80: WinRM; 135: RPC; 139: NetBIOS; 445: SMB (over TCP) Used by the VMM agent Inbound rule on hosts Can’t modify VMM server to VMM agent on Windows Server-based hosts/remote library server 443:HTTPS BITS data...
“Watch” command in Windows
These days I needed to be able to check on the execution of a repetitive task. If I would use linux I could use the watch command but I am a Windows guy. So I came up with an alternative – I created a bat file with the below content: To change the duration...