Year: 2014

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SCVMM Server 2012

Adding a Library Server in SCVMM 2012 R2 ends in no jobs

So I installed System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 to do some playing around with it on the network that I share, via an IPSEC tunnel, with my friend. I installed at his location and tried to bring up a new Library Server in my location. Ran through the wizard, added the SCVMM service account as a run as account, chose the server and the share and up pops the job frame but the only job there is the creation of run as account job. No error, nothing. Ran it a couple more times, changing permissions on the share to see if that was it and nothing. No jobs at all after finishing the wizard.

So off to Google I go, search for 20 mins and finally found this article from System Center Central. It sees that even though the library created on install uses the SCVMM service account, you can not use the same account to add additional libraries. Would have been nice for MS to have this error pop up or at least give us an easy way to know what the issues was.

Hope this helps!

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Server 2012 WIndows 8

Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 Component Store

So a few times now I’ve come across a system that had a corrupted component store, usually by trying to run SFC /ScanNow and failing, whether it be by power loss, hard drive crash or other. I’ve found some good commands on how to attempt to repair the component store and thought I would put them here so I could find them easily.

First is how to manage and clean up your component store:

Dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /AnalyzeComponentStore
Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase
Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /SPSuperseded

The first command analyzes your store and tell you if a cleanup is needed, the second command does the cleanup (/ResetBase blocks the uninstallation of all SP’s and updates), and the third command removes all updates that are superseded by the latest installed SP.

Now to scan and repair the component store:

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

CheckHealth checks to see if a corruption marker already exists in the store, ScanHealth scans the store for corruption and RestoreHealth TRIES to fix the corruption.

Eightforums has great write ups on these commands and I recommend looking at them for more information:

DISM – Fixing Component Store Corruption in Windows 8

WinSxS Folder (Component Store) – Analyze in Windows 8.1

WinSxS Folder (Component Store) – Clean Up in Windows 8.1

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Uncategorized

Java error connecting to Juniper VPN

So had a weird issue with connecting to my work’s Juniper VPN after getting a new laptop. Seems that our version of Juniper VPN head end doesn’t like IE 11 so I had to turn on compatibility view for it to work. So if you use a Juniper VPN head end and get the below error, try turning on compatibility mode and see if it works.

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Lync

Lync 2013 installs

So I’ve played around with Lync 2013 in my home lab. I previously had it installed and running internally but due to lack of resources, yes I need more hardware, I removed it from my lab. Will with logmein now not offering a free service my friend and I decided to relook at Lync and see if we can get it working externally also and leverage screen sharing. During the reinstall I found a couple of issues/shortcuts that I want to keep track off.

First, installing the pre-requisite roles and features for a Lync 2013 Standard install on Server 2012. I found this nice PowerShell command line that will install the roles and features that are needed:

Add-WindowsFeature RSAT-ADDS, Web-Server, Web-Static-Content, Web-Default-Doc, Web-Http-Errors, Web-Asp-Net, Web-Net-Ext, Web-ISAPI-Ext, Web-ISAPI-Filter, Web-Http-Logging, Web-Log-Libraries, Web-Request-Monitor, Web-Http-Tracing, Web-Basic-Auth, Web-Windows-Auth, Web-Client-Auth, Web-Filtering, Web-Stat-Compression, Web-Dyn-Compression, NET-WCF-HTTP-Activation45, Web-Asp-Net45, Web-Mgmt-Tools, Web-Scripting-Tools, Web-Mgmt-Compat, Desktop-Experience, Windows-Identity-Foundation, Telnet-Client, BITS -Source D:\sources\sxs

Next was an error when trying to publish the topology. Looks like I didn’t correctly decommission the Central Management store from the original implementation so I had to clear it out by running this PowerShell command:

Remove-CsConfigurationStoreLocation

Followed by an error on the lync share when installing the server. I had to add the following groups to the SHARE permissions with full control:

RTCHSUniversalServices
RTCComponentUniversalServices
RTCUniversalServerAdmins
RTCUniversalConfigReplicator

And then there was the certificate issue. I ran through the setup, requested and assigned the certificates but it wouldn’t let me continue stating that not all certificates usages were assigned. Well I did the old windows 3 finger salute and restarted the server and voilà, no more error message.

Now onto the Edge server which installed with no issues but it seems that I can’t use it for external connectivity without purchasing a UC SSL cert which runs over $200/yr. That’s a kick in the head right there so basically no external Lync access. 🙁