Migrating agents between DPM servers

To migrate your DPM protected servers from one DPM parent server to another, follow the procedure below...

On the client machine (agent) to re-targeted.

1) Open a CMD promt, and CD to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\DPM\bin"

2) Type "SetDpmServer.exe -dpmservername yourdpmservername"

On the new DPM server you wish to use

1) Open a powershell prompt, and run "attach-productionserver.ps1"

2) Answer the prompts!

See the screenies below!

Managing Outlook Anywhere Access On Exchange 2007

The business wanted to enable Outlook Anywhere access onto our Exchange 2007 server, but wanted to be selective about who could use it.

Here's how i acheived it with a bit of powershell...

get-user | set-casmailbox -mapiblockoutlookrpchttp:$true

This filters out "ALL" users, and disables "outlookrpchttp" < (Outlook Anywhere) You can then re-enable RPC over HTTP for selected users using the following command set-casmailbox –identity -mapiblockoutlookrpchttp:$false

Hyper-V Machine Creation Error (0×80070037)

On an existing Hyper-V server that was previously working fine, i stumbled across the error below while trying to create a new guest machine.

An error occurred while attempting to change the state of virtual machine SERVER.

‘SERVER’ failed to start.

Microsoft Synthetic Ethernet Port (Instance ID {E4BAFA29-EB7E-4CD9-98A5-59546CEA6AE5}): Failed to power on with Error ‘The specified network resource or device is no longer available.’

‘SERVER’ failed to start. (Virtual machine 2A23B1CF-0758-4AF5-84B1-221BA2A8A90D)

‘SERVER’ Microsoft Synthetic Ethernet Port (Instance ID {E4BAFA29-EB7E-4CD9-98A5-59546CEA6AE5}): Failed to power on with Error ‘The specified network resource or device is no longer available.’ (0×80070037). (Virtual machine 2A23B1CF-0758-4AF5-84B1-221BA2A8A90D)

I narrowed this down to be a combination of a few things.

• I had added a new location for hyper-v vhd/xml files and hadn't excluded that new location from realtime AV scanning
• Secondly, the version of MS Forefront AV client i was running on the server required an update to version 1.5.1958.0
• Thirdly, i excluded .vhd files from realtime scanning.

And don't forget to bounce the server, or at the very least the services for hyper-v afterwards!

Official Microsoft info here... http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;961804

My First Blog!

Not really much more to say after the title! The first blog!