Service manager and orchestrator to build change requests

Nice work;

http://www.systemcentersolutions.co.uk/entry/using-service-manager-and-orchestrator-to-build-change-requests-on-the-fly

If you need to create change request from service request;

http://blog.concurrency.com/infrastructure/creating-change-requests-from-service-requests-using-system-center-orchestrator/

Creating recurring Change Requests incuding change template

nice job :)

http://www.scsm.se/?p=239

I used as creating changes for monthly Windows update installations.

CLR20R3 involving mscorlib.dll; IO.FileNotFound error

It is related to corruption of .NET Framework as stated below;

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/495640/clr20r3-involving-mscorlibdll;-iofilenotfound/

SCSM 2012 SP1 Authoring Tool Setup Error - An error occured while executing a custom Action:RollbackClenaup

As mentioned below missing files interrupts installation. After installing missing components setup completes successfully.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/3833bbda-8b02-43ca-b5f4-6f172f9f3b97/scsm-2012-sp1-authoring-tool-setup-error

SQL Releases

I have thought it can be useful to track SQL releases from sites below;

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlreleaseservices/default.aspx?PostSortBy=MostRecent&PageIndex=1


a nice one;

http://sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.com/

Release Notes and known issues for VMM 2012 R2

Known issues for VMM 2012 R2 are noted in http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn303329.aspx

Analyzing and Detecting System Center 2012 SP1 component problems

The System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Analyzer is the first line of defense in troubleshooting issues with all System Center 2012 SP1 server-side components from a single interface.

First of all you have to install "Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyzer 2.0" or installed already skip this step;
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=16475

Then move to download link and install configuration analyzer;

Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36796


After successful installation filling user name and server name areas you may get error related to Win-RM

you can easily make the required change from a command prompt;

now you can start scanning.

Hyper-V failoer cluster "STATUS_CONNECTION_DISCONNECTED(c000020c)" error

First you see an error in the host machine event viewer log as;

"The Transaction (UOW=%1, Description='%3') was unable to be committed, and instead rolled back; this was due to an error message returned by CLFS while attempting to write a Prepare or Commit record for the Transaction.  The CLFS error returned was: %4." 

Event Source is "Kernel-TM" and Event ID is "1"

Couple of minutes later;

"Cluster Shared Volume 'Volume4' ('CSV04') is no longer available on this node because of 'STATUS_CONNECTION_DISCONNECTED(c000020c)'. All I/O will temporarily be queued until a path to the volume is reestablished." listed in event viewer.
As mentioned in http://deusexmachina.org.uk/evdoco/event.php?event=916
this event is observed on cluster nodes, when there is a drive mapping which uses the same drive letter as one of the cluster disks.

You have better check if you have mapped disks on Hyper-V failover cluster hosts and virtual machines. You can also be sure whether bus configuration on virtual machines DVD drives are selected as "no media" or having correct media path.

In our environment a DC lost connection with host and;

"This computer was not able to set up a secure session with a domain controller in domain... due to the following:

The remote procedure call was cancelled.

This may lead to authentication problems. Make sure that this computer is connected to the network. If the problem persists, please contact your domain administrator.

ADDITIONAL INFO

If this computer is a domain controller for the specified domain, it sets up the secure session to the primary domain controller emulator in the specified domain. Otherwise, this computer sets up the secure session to any domain controller in the specified domain." received.

HP Service Pack for ProLiant 2013.02 hotfixes

HP SPP - Hot Fixes and Advisories for Version 2013.02.0(B) can be downloaded from
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/service_packs/en/ca.2013.02.0(B).html

Hyper-V and SLAT

What is SLAT and how to check settings;

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/1401.hyper-v-list-of-slat-capable-cpus-for-hosts.aspx


You can download "Coreinfo v3.2" from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc835722 then run it on a hyper-v host to see SLAT configuration.

If you have HP DL 380 G6 server in your environment http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01925882/c01925882.pdf will be helpful configuring server BIOS settings for hyper-v on Intel and AMD processors.