Steps: Reboot servers to clear any updates that have applied. Prepare Schema and Active Directory. Place server in Maintenance Mode. Run the Exchange Setup. Take server out of maintenance mode. Active Directory Preparation: From an elevated prompt you can run the following commands: Setup.exe /PrepareSchema /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms Setup.exe /PrepareAD /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms Start Maintenance Read more…
Steps: Install Windows Features. Configure SNMP Services. Configure SCOM. Install Windows Features Open up server manager. Once the Server Manager has initialized click on “Add roles and features” Leave Role-based or feature-based installation as default and click Next. Leave the default and then click Next. Click Next on the roles Read more…
Brief Description: Journaling can help your organization respond to legal, regulatory, and organizational compliance requirements by recording inbound and outbound email communications. When planning for messaging retention and compliance, it’s important to understand journaling, how it fits in your organization’s compliance policies, and how Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 helps you secure Read more…
Brief Description: Management packs typically contain monitoring settings for applications and services. After a management pack is imported into an Operations Manager management group, Operations Manager immediately begins monitoring objects based on default configurations and thresholds that are set by the management pack. Steps for importing the management pack: Open Read more…
Brief Description: A protection group is a collection of data sources that share the same protection configuration. Data sources within a protection group are referred to as protection group members. Steps to create a new protection group: Double click the DPM icon to launch DPM. The console will open Read more…
A System Center 2012 Configuration Manager application contains the files and information that are required to deploy software to a device. An application contains one or more deployment types that comprise the installation files and information that are required to install software. A deployment type also contains rules that specify when and how Read more…
Brief Description of Hyper-V: Hyper-V enables you to create a virtualized server computing environment. You can use a virtualized computing environment to improve the efficiency of your computing resources by utilizing more of your hardware resources. This is possible because you use Hyper-V to create and manage virtual machines and Read more…
This document lists the steps to install Windows Server 2012. Attach the media (if its a virtual machine) or insert the DVD into the DVD drive and then boot the Virtual/Physical Machine. A screen will show loading. When it completes you will get the screen below. Select your language, time Read more…
Open up System Center Operations Manager. Wait for the system to initialize and connect to the DB. Once initialized you will be shown this screen. Step 1 -> Click on Administration. Once the menus refresh then Step 2 -> Right click on Administration. Step 3 -> Click on “Discovery Wizard”. Read more…
System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012 R2 adds a feature that enables software updates to be automatically approved and deployed to selected machines in your organization. Icon Descriptions and Explanations: The icon with the green arrow represents a normal software update. Description: Normal software updates have been synchronized and are Read more…