Today I moved my DC System State backups to DPM 2012. After running the first initial sync the status goes to a green OK and then immediately to a red…

Prerequisites List Admin access to be able to manage Mailbox Databases in Exchange. EMC or Exchange Management Shell. If you running an Exchange DAG and the copy status is sitting…

Today while installing a new Exchange Server to create a DAG (Database Availability Group) I ran into the following error below: First thing that I checked was that the domainExchange…

Today after a power failure at my other site (yes power drops a lot) I noticed that after the main DC came back online that Exchange was complaining it could…

Having multiple sites I look after and having Exchange 2010 running in each site the last thing you want to do is backup a corrupted Exchange 2010 Database. The nice…

Today I downloaded DPM 2012 SP1. I ran the installation only to find out that DPM 2012 installed was the BETA version, you can check the version number here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4058.list-of-build-numbers-for-system-center-data-protection-manager-dpm-en-us.aspx…

The UPS at my remote site went down taking down all servers. After bringing up the DC first and then Exchange, Exchange was giving event id 2601, 2604, 2501 every…

I installed updates and rebooted my DC in a remote site only to find out that terminal services was ended but the actual server did not reboot. I ran shutdown…

As part of my cleanup and decommission of Small Business Server 2003 I installed RRAS on my Windows Server 2012 DC. First thing I did was to give the server…

Today I installed a new Anti-Virus product on my Exchange Servers, ESET. The nice thing with ESET is that it automatically sets exclusions as it detects what is installed, so…