System Center 2012R2 Storage Pool Deduplication?

I am trying to find out if it is possible to deduplicate data on a System Center 2012R2 Storage Pool on Server 2012R2. I am aware that DPM will back up deduplicated data in a deduplicated state, but this is about deduplicating data backed
up from multiple sources. Searching shows me that deduplicating System Center 2012 Storage Pools on Server 2012 was not supported, but the threads I found that showed this either had screenshots or quotes of the information instead of links to the documentation.
Is it possible/supported to deduplicate data within a System Center 2012R2 Storage Pool on Server 2012R2?

Hi,
Yes, if you virtualize your DPM server, it is possible to enable deduplication of DPM storage pool disks.
Please see the following white paper:
Deduplicating DPM storage
We are working on a better solution long term.
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System Center 2012R2 Tapeless Storage Pool Backup

I'm not sure exactly what to search for here, but I tried "Disk to Disk to Disk" and "Private Cloud" without much luck. I want to back up to disk and then back up the storage pool to a private off site location (but for all practical
purposes, I could be backing up the storage pool to another storage pool on-site as far as the servers know, depending on how I configure the networking). Since the location is actually off-site, I don't want to do full backups of the storage pool, I
want to do differencing backups so that the amount of data transferred off-site is minimal. Old revisions of the off-site storage only need to last weeks or months, not years, so tapes (virtual or otherwise) would ideally not be involved.
The only things my searches turned up seemed to advise using virtual tapes and the like, but I'm concerned about that meeting my needs. Specifically, if I'm using virtual tapes, I would expect a full backup to be required any time I wanted to purge
incremental backups. In other words, with virtual tapes, I believe (perhaps mistakenly?) that my options are to have my storage needs grow infinitely or my data transfer needs skyrocket occasionally, and neither of those are good options.
Is backing up one storage pool to another supported? If not, is there something I'm missing with in regards to how a virtual tape option would work? If not, is there some other way to achieve this goal (for instance, effectively be creating
my own local Azure storage destination or something)?

Hi,
The two best options are using a Secondary DPM server or enabling online backups to Azure. Both will perform true incremental backups for DPM protected data sources and provide DR solutions off premise.
Back up DPM using a secondary server
Back up DPM workloads with Azure Backup
How to register a DPM 2012 SP1 or later server to backup to Microsoft Azure
Explaining the new Azure Backup pricing for DPM and EA customers
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System center 2012R2 licensing suggestion.

Hello,
I am reading about system center licensing but getting more and more confused, so any help is greatly appreciated.
I want to implement SCOM to monitor following servers:
win server (90% Virtual machines) - 80 (apprx)
unix /linux server (50% Virtual machines) - 25
6 Vmware ESX host (3 with 16 and 3 with 24 processor each)
Networking switches and firewall from Dell (looks like scom monitoring is free for them)
and SCCM 2012 R2 with FEP for apprx 1200 WIN 8 client machines
also maintain inventory + FEP for above win servers.
most of my servers have single core CPU, but some of have them 4 and 2-3 have 8 virtual cores.
Now that I understand no license is needed for actual products like SCCM and SCOM, how many and which user cal's do I need in all for my clients together?
My doubts are:
- Do I need standard or datacenter approach or can it be mix
- does the sml's or client machine license covers FEP or is it separate license
- If I manage a server with both SCCM and SCOM, then 1 need just 1 SMLs not 2.
- also are they just paper license or do I need to add them in the products.
Thanks in Advance

hello,
Sytem Center 2012/2012 R2 is not complexe to understand the licensing model.
for your Servers: you nedd System Center Standard for each physical Server with 2 CPUs to manage 2 VMs.
for example: if you have one Server with 4 CPUs and 6 VMs than you Need 3 System Center Standard or 1 System Center datacenter.
if you have one Server with 2 CPUs and 8 VMs than you Needs: 4 std or 1 datacenter.
2. for Clients: you Needs 1200 Systen Center Configuration Manager Client mangement License(CML) + 1200 System Center Endpoint Protection as a subscription in open value for example.
3. if you manage for example one Server with 2 CPUs and 2 VMs with SCCM and SCOM than you Need only 1 System Center Standard while the compenents of System Center 2012 are all included on the std or datacent suites. standalone compenents will no longer
be sold separately.
4. you Need to add System Center products on your Server products.
I hope that my Suggestion clear to understand it(my english is not very good!)
thanks
diramoh

System Center Cloud Process pack for 2012R2 Service Manger

Hi Team,
I am setting infra for System center 2012R2. I am trying to install cloud service pack on Service Manger server build on 2012R2 Components.Server is already running Service Manger 2012R2.
during installation od Cloud Proccess pack error appear under prereq stage that Service Manger 2012 Is not installed.
Please let me know if Cloud Process pack for Service Manager 2012R2 is differ from Service Manger 2012Sp1.
Thanks
Ravi
Ravi

CSPP is discontinued. Use Windows Azure Pack.
Shahid Roofi

SQL Cluster - Unable to obtain IP Address from System Center IP Pool

Hi everyone,
we are trying to deploy a SQL cluster into a windows azure pack tenant cloud.
Our azure pack environment contains:
- 4X Hyper-V server in a failover cluster
- 1X SCVMM server
- multiple WAP server
Steps we have done:
-   Windows failover cluster is installed and configured successfully
-   Quorum disk was configured successfully
-   SQL server 2014 installation (via static IP) is successfully. But routing between the VMs is not possible.
-   SQL server 2014 installation (via DHCP) fails at the end of the installation with following error:
       -> We used DHCP to obtain an IP from the scvmm IP pool.
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:11 Slp: Running Action: cluster_ip_address_cluster_config_Cpu64
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:11 Slp: Action Data:
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:11 Slp:   Feature = SQL_Engine_Core_Inst_sql_engine_core_inst_Cpu64
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:11 Slp:   Scenario = install
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:11 Slp:   Timing = ConfigNonRC
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:11 Slp:   ConfigObjectType = Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.ClusterConfiguration.ClusterIPAddressPrivateConfigObject
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:11 Slp:   FeatureName = SQL_Engine_Core_Inst
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:11 Slp:   FeatureCpuType = Cpu64
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:11 Slp:   FeaturePackageId = sql_engine_core_inst
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:11 Slp:   FeatureClusterState = CompleteFailoverCluster
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:11 Slp: Creating IPv4 address 'SQL IP Address 1 (SQLADFS)'.
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:11 Slp: Creating cluster resource 'SQL IP Address 1 (SQLADFS)' of type 'IP Address' in group 'SQL Server (ADFS)'
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:11 Slp: Bringing IP address resource 'Type='IP Address' NetworkName='Cluster Network 1' Group='SQL Server (ADFS)' Resource='SQL IP Address 1 (SQLADFS)'' online
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:11 Slp: Bringing cluster resource 'SQL IP Address 1 (SQLADFS)' online
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp: Prompting user if they want to retry this action due to the following failure:
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp: ----------------------------------------
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp: The following is an exception stack listing the exceptions in outermost to innermost order
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp: Inner exceptions are being indented
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp: Exception type: Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster.ResourceOnlineException
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:     Message:
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:         The cluster resource 'SQL IP Address 1 (SQLADFS)' could not be brought online. Error: There was a failure to call cluster code from a provider. Exception message: Generic failure
. Status code: 5023. Description: The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation.
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:         .
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:     HResult : 0x86d8003a
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:         FacilityCode : 1752 (6d8)
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:         ErrorCode : 58 (003a)
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:     Data:
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:       resourceName = SQL IP Address 1 (SQLADFS)
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:       errorMessage = There was a failure to call cluster code from a provider. Exception message: Generic failure . Status code: 5023. Description: The group or resource is not in the correct state
to perform the requested operation.
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:       WatsonData = Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster.ResourceOnlineException@58
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:       DisableRetry = true
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:     Inner exception type: Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster.ClusterProviderDetailedException
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:         Message:
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:                 There was a failure to call cluster code from a provider. Exception message: Generic failure . Status code: 5023. Description: The
group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation.
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:                 .
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:         HResult : 0x86d70002
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:                 FacilityCode : 1751 (6d7)
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:                 ErrorCode : 2 (0002)
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:         Data:
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:           ExceptionMessage = Generic failure
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:           StatusCode = 5023
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:           Description = The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation.
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:           WatsonData = Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster.ClusterProviderDetailedException@2
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:         Stack:
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:                 at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster.WmiClusterResource.Online(Int32 timeout)
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:                 at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster.ClusterResource.Online(Int32 timeout)
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:         Inner exception type: System.Management.ManagementException
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:             Message:
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:                         Generic failure
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:             HResult : 0x80131501
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:             Data:
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:               WmiErrorCode = Failed
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:               WatsonData = Failed@5023
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:               Description = The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation.
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:               ErrorType = 1
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:               Operation = ExecMethod
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:               ParameterInfo = MSCluster_Resource.Name="SQL IP Address 1 (SQLADFS)"
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:               ProviderName = WinMgmt
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:               StatusCode = 5023
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:             Stack:
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:                         at System.Management.ManagementException.ThrowWithExtendedInfo(ManagementStatus errorCode)
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:                         at System.Management.ManagementObject.InvokeMethod(String methodName, ManagementBaseObject
inParameters, InvokeMethodOptions options)
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:                         at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.WMIInterop.Resource.BringOnline(UInt32 TimeOut)
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp:                         at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster.WmiClusterResource.Online(Int32 timeout)
(01) 2015-04-22 15:29:12 Slp: ----------------------------------------
We have tried to reinstall the servers multiple times, without result.
Can anyone assist us in this case?
Thanks
Kind Regards
Julian

Hi Darryl,
thanks for your supply.
We don't have an DHCP in the Cloud. System Center DHCP is used for assigning IP addresses and routing inforamtion to the vms.
This works fine for assigning IP addresses to the vms.
At my current point of understanding network virtualisation with system Center, we do not have an alternative to this way of assigning IP addresses.
Kind Regards
Julian

How to enable microsoft system center virtual machine manager Management Pack IP Pool monitoring

How to I enable how to enable IP Pool monitoring in the Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Management? The IP Pools show up in the IP Address Pool Health dashboard, but the state is "Not Monitored". How to I get these to light up
as monitored?

Hi,
Have you integrated VMM and SCOM?
Hope the links below could be helpful:
Operations Manager Integration and PRO Improvements in SCVMM 2012
http://blogs.technet.com/b/scvmm/archive/2011/04/14/operations-manager-integration-and-pro-improvements-in-scvmm-2012.aspx
Integrating VMM 2012 and OpsMgr 2012
http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2012/08/21/integrating-vmm-2012-and-opsmgr-2012.aspx
And please also search for "IP address Pool" under monitors or rules, hope you may find something related there.
Regards,
Yan Li
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DPM Storage Pool on Windows Server 2012R2 iSCSI target Storage Spaces - supported?

Hi,
for migration purpose we need more space for one of our DPM 2012R2 Servers.
And we cannot buy more space for our NetAPPs..
So our idea was to use an Windows Server 2012R2 as an iSCSI target and use Storage Spaces.
I remember something that using an iSCSI target on Windows 2008 was not supported.
Is this configuration supported when usinf DPM 2012R2 on Win 2012R2 and the target is Win2012R2 aswell?
Thanks in advance
regards
/bkpfast
My postings are provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confer no rights

Hi,
This talks about
Virtual DPM servers, but the same is true for Physical DPM servers when it comes to using .VHD(x) files for DPM storage pool.
Virtual DPM installations do not support the following:
Windows 2012 Storage Spaces.
Virtual hard drives built on top of storage spaces.
Local or remote hosting of VHDX files on Windows 2012 storage spaces.
Enabling Disk Dedupe on volumes hosting virtual hard drives.
Using synthetic FC to connect to tape drives.
Windows 2012 iSCSI targets (which use virtual hard drives) as a DPM storage pool.
NTFS compression for volumes hosting VHD files used in the DPM storage pool.
Bitlocker on volumes hosting VHD files used for the storage pool.
A native 4K sector size of physical disks for VHDX files in the DPM storage pool.
Virtual hard drives hosted on Windows 2008 servers.
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Can ZFS storage pools share a physical drive w/ the root (UFS) file system?

I wonder if I'm missing something here, because I was under the impression ZFS offered ultimate flexability until I encountered the following fine print 50 pages into the ZFS Administration Guide:
"Before creating a storage pool, you must determine which devices will store your data. These devices must be disks of at least 128 Mbytes in size, and _they must not be in use by other parts of the operating system_. The devices can be individual slices on a preformatted disk, or they can be entire disks that ZFS formats as a single large slice."
I thought it was frustrating that ZFS couldn't be used as a boot disk, but the fact that I can't even use the rest of the space on the boot drive for ZFS is aggrivating. Or am I missing something? The following text appears elsewhere in the guide, and suggests that I can use the 7th slice:
"A storage device can be a whole disk (c0t0d0) or _an individual slice_ (c0t0d0s7). The recommended mode of operation is to use an entire disk, in which case the disk does not need to be specially formatted."
Currently, I've just installed Solaris 10 (6/11) on an Ultra 10. I removed the slice for /export/users (c0t0d0s7) from the default layout during the installation. So there's approx 6 GB in UFS space, and 1/2 GB in swap space. I want to make the 70GB of unused HDD space a ZFS pool.
Suggestions? I read somewhere that the other slices must be unmounted before creating a pool. How do I unmount the root partition, then use the ZFS tools that reside in that unmounted space to create a pool?
Edited by: MindFuq on Oct 20, 2007 8:12 PM

It's not convenient for me to post that right now, because my ultra 10 is offline (for some reason the DNS never got set up properly, and creating an /etc/resolv.conf file isn't enough to get it going).
Anyway, you're correct, I can see that there is overlap with the cylinders.
During installation, I removed slice 7 from the table. However, under the covers the installer created a 'backup' partition (slice 2), which used the rest of the space (~74.5GB), so the installer didn't leave the space unused as I had expected. Strangely, the backup partition overlapped; it started at zero as the swap partition did, and it ended ~3000 cylinders beyond the root partition. I trusted the installer to be correct about things, and simply figured it was acceptible for multiple partitions to share a cylinder. So I deleted slice 2, and created slice 7 using the same boundaries as slice 2.
So next I'll have to remove the zfs pool, and shrink slice 7 so it goes from cylinder 258 to ~35425.
[UPDATE] It worked. Thanks Alex! When I ran zpool create tank c0t0d0s7, there was no error.
Edited by: MindFuq on Oct 22, 2007 8:15 PM

System Center TechNet Guru Announced for June 2014

The Results are in! And the winners of the TechNet Guru Competition June 2014 have been posted on the
Wiki Ninjas Blog.
Below is a summary, heavily trimmed to fit the size restrictions of forum posting.
BizTalk Technical Guru - June 2014
Steef-Jan Wiggers
BizTalk Server: Custom Archiving
TGN: "This one was my favorite this month. Archiving is a topic that is brought up often. Well done explaining it simply and how to do it according to best practice"
Sandro Pereira: "Love the topic, well explain and with everything you need, my favorite."
Mandi Ohlinger: "Another great addition to the Wiki. "
boatseller
BizTalk: Reducing and Consolidating WCF Serialization Schema Types
TGN: "Very good, keeping the code clean, and only referencing what you need and consolidate it is important!"
Mandi Ohlinger: "Great solution to somewhat-annoying behavior. Nice addition to the Wiki!"
Sandro Pereira: "Great article."
Murugesan Mari Chettiar
How to Implement Concurrent FIFO Solution in BizTalk Server
Ed Price: "Incredibly thorough in your explanations! Great formatting. Good job!"
TGN: "First in, first out. Great article Murugesan!"
Sandro Pereira: "Good additional to the TechNet Wiki, good work."
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - June 2014
Remi Vandemir
Custom Reports in FIM2010R2
AM: "Great step-by-step guide for generating custom reports. Thanks for taking the time to put this together."
PG: "Nice article, in an area that is less known!"
Søren Granfeldt: "Very comprehensive."
Ed Price: "Great job on the intro, and a lot of images really help clarify all the steps!"
GO: "Thank you "
Eihab Isaac
FIM 2010 R2: Review pending export changes to Active Directory using XSLT
Ed Price: "Great introduction, great steps, and great job on the image and code formatting!"
GO: "An introduction, a sample code, images, a TOC and a conclusion. Nothing here to preserve the GOLD medal!"
PG: "Nice article!"
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice and precise"
Scott Eastin
A Practical Alternative to the PeopleSoft
AM: "Thank you for sharing. Great (and probably superior) alternative for those using PeopleSoft as import-only data source."
GO: "Amazing article, love it so much"
PG: "Would like to see more elaborated details in this article."
Søren Granfeldt: "A little more technical stuff would be nice"
Ed Price: "Some good community collaboration in removing blog-like personalization. This is a great topic with some good holistic thinking!"
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - June 2014
Mr X
Configuration of WATM (Windows Azure Traffic Manager) for Web Portals hosted
on Azure VMs
JH: "Two simple words: Love it! The detailed explanation on how Traffic Manager works is awesome."
Ed Price: "Wow! Incredibly well written, with beautiful diagrams and a great use of images and tables! Great topic!"
GO: "This is a great article! Thanks Mr.X"
Mr X
How to use Windows Azure as Traffic Manager for Web portals
hosted in multiple on-premise datacenters
JH: "Very detailed! Great explanation at the beginning followed by a good step-by-step guide."
Ed Price: "A much needed article! Great job on the formatting and images!"
GO: "Thanks again, MR.X"
Mr X
How to connect Orchestrator to Windows Azure
GO: "I really enjoyed reading this article, clever and well written. Lovely done!"
JH: "Great article! I especially love the amount of pictures provided in the article."
Ed Price: "Good procedural article! Great use of images!"
Microsoft Visio Technical Guru - June 2014
Mr X
How to open Visio files without Visio
AH: "This Article is pretty basic and lacks details. Visio Viewer doesn't just open in IE but also in Outlook and File explorer. The writer should include the link to http://blogs.office.com/2012/11/28/download-the-free-microsoft-visio-viewer/
this blog which has lot more details "
Ed Price: "Good. I think the SEO on the title will drive more awareness of the Visio Viewer."
GO: "Thanks you Mr.X! Again a great article!"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - June 2014
Ed Price - MSFT
Yammer: Announcements Feature
TGN: "Wow, not only is this a good way on how to write annoncments on Yammer, but in generel. Really, really great write-up Ed! T"
GO: "Tord says on the comment section: "Very nice article, Ed. I really enjoyed reading it and you had a great set of tips. Thanks for sharing!".. I only can respond AMEN! Thanks Ed!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Good discussion of announcements feature."
Anthony Caragol
Backing Up and Restoring Lync 2013 Contacts
Margriet Bruggeman: "Short & Sweet"
GO: "Great article, but I'm missing, examples, images, definitions etc for a huge section like "backup and restore""
TGN: "Very good, Lync has eaten up the market and is a key product in most companies, articles like this is very valuable. Great work Anthony!"
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - June 2014
Geetanjali Arora
SharePoint Online : Working with People Search and User Profiles
Benoît Jester: "A very good article, a must-read for those interested by SharePoint Online and the use of search and user profile API."
Jinchun Chen: "Excellent. Just a tip, if you would like to improve the performance, please use the Search Service to search user profiles"
Craig Lussier: "Good walkthrough and code example for getting started with People Search!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Good starter for working with search and profiles"
Jaydeep Mungalpara
Creating Bookmarks in Wiki Pages - SharePoint Rich Text Editor Extension
Margriet Bruggeman: "Really cool! In the past, I was actually looking for this and its a nice implementation of this functionality. This article gets my vote!"
Craig Lussier: "Great solution for extending out of the box functionality. I like the synergy between the TechNet Wiki and TechNet Gallery!"
GO: "Simple but powerfull. We should all take an example about how this article has been written. This article has a TOC, headings and even a code! Well done!"
Jinchun Chen: "Nice. "
Benoît Jester: "A simple button which can save a lot of time!"
Dan Christian
PowerShell to copy or update list items across SharePoint sites and farms
GO: "The best artice for June! Thanks Dan, you deserve the GOLD medal!"
Benoît Jester: "A good article with useful scripts, as they can be used fior many scenarios (data refresh, migration tests, ...)"
Jinchun Chen: "Good and low-cost solution. To be automatic, we can use EventHandle instead. "
Craig Lussier: "Nice PowerShell script solution and explanation of the scenario. Consider using functions with parameters for easier reuse so input parameters are not hard coded."
Margriet Bruggeman: "This script can be useful, although typically migration scenarios are more complex than this. Having said that, I probably end up using this script some time in in the future"
Small Basic Technical Guru - June 2014
litdev
Small Basic: Sprite Arrays
Ed Price: "An important topic that's well described with fantastic examples! Great article!"
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great starter for Sprite Fundamentals and how to handle them. Briljant start point for greating you 2D shooter"
Jibba Jabba
Small Basic - Monthly Challenge Statistics
Ed Price: "Jibba Jabba brings us astonishing insights and data about LitDev's Small Basic Monthly Challenges!"
RZ: "This is very nicely done and showed all the statistics visually"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Challenge of the Month
RZ: "This is very nicely done and organized all challenges of the month in one place"
Ed Price: "Although this is very basic, it's incredibly helpful to get all these in one list and to access all the great challenges!"
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Good explainer on fundamental structures."
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - June 2014
Anil Maharjan
Using Power Query to tell your story form your Facebook Data
Jinchun Chen: "Interesting. I liked this best"
PT: "Plenty to like here"
Ed Price: "Great! I love to see Power Query articles like this! Great formatting and use of images!"
Tim Pacl
SSRS Expressions: Part 1 - Program Flow
PT: "A very comprehensive article about program flow expressions. Nice job. I'm sure many will benefit from this article. Just a little feedback about some terminology that could be more clear: The entire statement that
is typically used to set a property value for an object in an SSRS report is an "expression". Each of the three programming constructs you've mentioned (e.g. IIF, SWITCH & CHOOSE) are "functions" and not expressions or statements."
Jinchun Chen: "Perfect! Good article for SSRS newbie."
Ed Price: "The table and images help bring it more value. Great job!"
Anil Maharjan
How to Schedule and Automate backups of all the SSAS catalogs within the
Server Instance
PT: "This is a very useful article about automating multiple Analysis Services database backups using an SSIS package and the SQL Server Agent. Nice job."
Jinchun Chen: "Good."
Ed Price: "Good use of images. Could be improved with better code formatting. Good job!"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - June 2014
Shanky
SQL Server: What does Column Compressed Page Count Value Signify
in DMV Sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats ?
DB: "Interesting and detailed"
DRC: "• This is a good article and provides details of each and every step and the output with explanation. Very well formed and great information. • We can modify the create table query with “DEFAULT VALUES". CREATE TABLE [dbo].[INDEXCOMPRESSION](
[C1] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [C2] [char](50) NULL DEFAULT 'DEFAULT TEST DATA' ) ON [PRIMARY]"
GO: "Very informative and well formed article as Said says.. Thanks for that great ressource. "
Durval Ramos
How to get row counts for all Tables
GO: "As usual Durva has one of the best articles about SQL Server General and Database Engine articles! Thanks, buddy!" "
Jinchun Chen: "Another great tip!"
PT: "Nice tip"
Ed Price: "Good topic, formatting, and use of images. This would be far better if the examples didn't require the black bars in the images. So it would be better to scrub the data before taking the screenshots. Still a good article. Thank
you!"
System Center Technical Guru - June 2014
Prajwal Desai
Deploying SCCM 2012 R2 Clients Using Group Policy
Ed Price: "Great depth on this article! Valuable topic. Good use of images."
Mr X
How to introduce monitoring and automatic recovery of IIS application
pools using Orchestrator
MA: "Good job Mr X, However I would like to see this runbook integrated as a recovery task with Operations Manager IISapppools Monitors in order to maintain a standard way of notifications and availability reporting."
Ed Price: "Good formatting on the images, and great scenario!"
Prajwal Desai
How to deploy lync 2010 using SCCM 2012 R2
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Transact-SQL Technical Guru - June 2014
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: How to Generate Random Passwords
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T-SQL : Average Interval Length
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T-SQL: Retrieve Connectionstring Details from SSIS Package
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The Thinker
Better to Ask for forgiveness then permission
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Jaliya Udagedara
Entity Framework Code First - Defining Foreign Keys using Data Annotations
and Fluent API
Ed Price: "Wow. Good descriptions, great code snippets, and great job highlighting sections on your images!"
GO: "Thank you."
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XAML guy
History and Technology Behind the TechNet Wiki Ninja Belt Calculator
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Richard Mueller: "Great documentation. Good links to explain everything."
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Durval Ramos
HTML5 Portal
Ed Price: "This is great to see this HTML5 resource!"
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João Sousa
ASP.NET Portal
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Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - June 2014
Dave Smits
Theming of your application
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saramgsilva
Creating Windows Phone and Window 8.1 applications using Microsoft App Studio
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Carmelo La Monica
Create Universal Application with Windows Phone App Studio (en-US).
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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - June 2014
Magnus (MM8)
WPF: How To Tab Between Items In a ListBox
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Sugumar Pannerselvam
Lets forget about limitations and temprorary fix... Think about 4.5 features
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Windows Server Technical Guru - June 2014
Mr X
DHCP on Windows Servers – Why are the expired IP addresses not getting re-assigned?
JM: "This is an excellent article, thanks for your contribution."
Richard Mueller: "Important information with good explanation. Needs a See Also section."
Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I like how it's explained versus Windows Server. An image with the DHCP's process could be a good addition for reference. (DHCP OFFER, DHCP ACK, etc..)"
Mr X
How to force a DHCP database cleanup for expired leases in a specific scope
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Windows Server Core 2012 R2 - Initial configuration
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System Center Technical Guru - June 2014
Prajwal Desai
Deploying SCCM 2012 R2 Clients Using Group Policy
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Mr X
How to introduce monitoring and automatic recovery of IIS application
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How to deploy lync 2010 using SCCM 2012 R2
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Installing a legacy boot image in SCCM to support XP migrations by
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How to move a virtual disk's physical allocation within a Storage Pool

I have a pool of 3x500GB where one the physical drives is having intermittent issues. Currently, there is only one parity Virtual Disk of 300GB Fixed across 3 columns. I want to replace the bad drive with a good one. The old way (pre-2012) was replace the
disk, repair the RAID 5, resync and done. These basic steps are not working.
So far I have added a 4th 500GB drive to the pool. After searching and failing to find a way to move the data non-destructively, I decided to just pull the data cable on the disk I wanted to replace. After refresh/rescan, the disconnected drive shows "lost
communication" and the virtual disk (after trying to repair) shows "unknown" (but the volume on that disk is accessible in Explorer). When I try to remove the physical disk in Server Manager, I get "The selected physical disk cannot
be removed". Reading the error message, I see that the replacement disk cannot contain any part of a virtual disk. The replacement disk that I just added appears to have some space allocated (possibly because I have tried this same procedure a couple
of times already?). When I look at the parity disk properties/health, it shows all four physical disks under "physical disks in use".
I have deleted and recreated a lot of storage pools lately while trying to understand how they work but I would like to avoid that this time. The data on the virtual disk in question is highly deduplicated and it took quite a while to get it that way. Since
I can't find a way to copy/mirror the disk while keeping it fully deduplicated, I would need 3x the space to copy it all off, or a lot of time to load up and deduplicate a new virtual disk.
I have several questions:
1. How can a 3 column parity disk use parts of four physical disks? And can that be fixed without recreating the virtual disk?
2. When creating a virtual disk (for example a 3 column disk in a pool that has four or more physical drives), is there a way to specify which physical disks to use?
3. I understand that after a physical disk failure, the recovery process will move a virtual disk's allocation to a replacement disk, but can a virtual disk's allocation be moved manually among physical disks within the same storage pool
using a PS script?
4. Can a deduplicated virtual disk be moved/mirrored/backed up without expanding the data?
Any help is appreciated.

Im still fighting with storage pools and need more tests to be done and have a lot of questions my self but ther goes what I understood so far.
You may define physical disks used for virtual disk by Powershell ,
for list of all commands follow this:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848705(v=wps.620).aspx ,
specific command defining physical disks to be used on already existing virtual disk:
Example 4: Manually assigning physical disks to a virtual disk
This example gets two physical disks that have already been added to the storage pool and designated as ManualSelect disks,
PhysicalDisk3 and PhysicalDisk4, and assigns them to the virtual disk
UserData.
PS C:\> Add-PhysicalDisk –VirtualDiskFriendlyName UserData –PhysicalDisks (Get-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName PhysicalDisk3, PhysicalDisk4)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848702(v=wps.620).aspx
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How to create a local, non-clustered storage pool

Hello,
I have setup a two-node Failover Cluster, with a shared SAS DAS. So far so good.
One of the nodes also has internal disks that I wish to use for system backups.
This storage pool should not be clustered, as the disks cannot be seen from the other node. The trouble is that as soon as I create the pool it gets added to the cluster (in failed state).
In fact, the "Storage Pools" window in the server manager will only show me the "clustered storage spaces", with my internal disks in the Primordial pool.
Get-StorageSubSystem will show me both subsystems (Clustered Storage Space on ... + Storage Spaces on node-1) but fails to create a storage pool on the "local" subsystem.
How can I create a local, non clustered storage pool on internal disks ?
Cheers
alex

Hi,
SpackTime_ is right, the DA storage usually for the localdata backup, but if you want to use for remote computer backup, you can share a floder then you can storage your backup, but also that backup won't work the shared computer crash.
The simlar thread:
Schedule Backup to Remote Shared Folder
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/726d3765-5f82-4590-b970-d45e17412281/schedule-backup-to-remote-shared-folder?forum=winserverfiles
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Tape Consumption/Utilization on System Center Data Protection Manager 2012

Hi Guys,
I have setup System Center DPM 2012 for Exchange 2010 Backup, the tape library that i am using is Dell TL4000 with 45 Slots and two LTO 5 Drives. The total size of Exchange backup is 33 TB but the no. of tapes used to backup are 16 LTO5 tapes.
The native capacity of LTO5 tape is 1.5 TB and the compressed capacity is 3 TB.
The total no. of tapes used for exchange backup are 16 therefore 16 Tapes x 3 TB = 48 TB where as the total backup size of exchange is 33 TB which means there is a complete wastage of 15 TB tape storage.
Does any one know if its a known issue on DPM? Is there a way where i can tweak the tape utilization? Any help will be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Sajeel

Hi,
The LTO5 compression ratio is usually an average of 2:1 depending on the data being written. Some data is not compressible like .jpg .bmp etc. so it's not predictable ahead of time how much data will fill a tape. The fact
that you are achieving greater than native capacity shows that compression is enabled and working.
Besides the data not compressing as much as you like, the only other explanation for not getting more data on a tape is it may not be filling before we either get an EOM from the drive, or we get an IO error that DPM is going to convert to an EOM.
To see if it is the latter check the DPMRA Errlogs for the error code 0x8007045D.
Open an Administrative command prompt.
CD C:\Program file\Microsoft System Center 2012\DPM\DPM\Temp
Find /I "0x8007045D" DPMRA*.Errlog >C:\temp\DPMRA0x8007045D.TXT
Notepad C:\temp\DPMRA0x8007045D.TXT
If you find any, add the registry settings for BufferQueueSize and BusyRetryCount using the following
BLOG.
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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager

Hi,
I have two DPM (2012r2)servers, one is member of the domain, second is workgroup configuration.
I installed Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager, I have no problem connecting to DPM domain member.
Can I connect to the workgroup DPM server with System Center Data Protection Manager?
Thanks,
Lior

Hi
The DPM server itself must be a member of a domain. DPM will not work if the server is in a workgroup configuration.
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DPM 2010 reinstall secondary, format storage pool

I have 2 DPM servers, both 2010, a primary and secondary. The secondary is at a separate site and backs up the primary. The OS disk on the secondary died. Single disk. I did not have a backup of the system state nor the DPM db/configuration. The storage
pool data is still in tact. I have managed to reinstall DPM and configure a protection group for the primary DPM server and attempt backups.
The issue is that all of the DPM data in the storage pool from before the crash is still there. The storage pool is 7tb and was about 40% used. Since I've run new replication from the primary with the new jobs, it's about 80% used. This is my secondary server,
so I think I can afford to wipe the entire storage pool on the secondary DPM and start over.
But how do I completely format the storage pool? Is there a better way to accomplish what I'm doing? I do not need to keep the old recovery points/storage pool data, it's months old.

I have another question for this configuration. I'm trying to understand whether the secondary DPM server "touches" or directly backs up the "protected servers" in the PG's on the primary? What I mean - does the secondary only pull data
and backup the data from the storage pool on the primary or does it actually pull data and backup directly from the protected server, ie - Exchange or file server?
I'm trying to best setup recovery points and sync on the secondary. I have a full PG setup on the primary with proper sync's and recovery points for my servers, but what is best for the secondary? It's simply replication of the primary, so a 1-time copy of
the data, probably nightly would suffice for my business needs. Do I need to schedule any synchronization at all for the replication?
On the secondary PG, do I need to choose each "protected server" and it's volumes and db's and applications, etc.?
I know this question is all over the place. Sorry.

Setting Up Storage Pool - Invalid Parameter

Hey all,
I've run in to an issue when trying to create a Storage Pool in Windows Server 2012 R2. I have two 4TB drives and I'm trying to create a pool out of them (intent is to Mirror), but when I've gone through the pool creation wizard I simply get the following
error:
"Could not create storage pool. Invalid Parameter"
Does anyone have any hints on where to start diagnosing this? Both drives are wiped, both drives can be pooled, and both have different uniqueIDs.
Thanks in advance!

Hi,
Which type of the physical disks are added to the Storage Pool? Are the virtual hard drives (VHDs) created by Windows Azure? If so, the physical disk size advertised by Azure VHDs is not compatible with Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Spaces.
For more detailed information, you could refer to the thread below:
Error creating new Storage Pool in 2012R2 "invalid parameter"
If the Windws Server 2012 R2 is a virtual machine on Windows Azure, please also check if there is any error message in the Event Log.
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Mandy
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Thanks for the reply,
The Windows Server 2012 R2 is on my own physical server and isn't virtualized. I'm simply trying to create a new storage pool from two physical HDD:s, the disks are Seagate 4TB disks. Both the disks are listed in the storage pool creation wizard. I checked
the Event Log also but there's nothing, the lack of proper error information is making this a bit challenging to figure out.
I've also tried using PowerShell to do the work:
New-StoragePool -FriendlyName POOL1 -StorageSubSystemFriendlyName (Get-StorageSubSystem).FriendlyName -PhysicalDisks (Get-PhysicalDisk -CanPool $true)
The same error results:
New-StoragePool : Invalid Parameter
At line:1 char:1
+ New-StoragePool -FriendlyName POOL1 -StorageSubSystemFriendlyName (Get-StorageSu ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (StorageWMI:ROOT/Microsoft/...torageSubSystem) [New-StoragePool], CimException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : StorageWMI 5,New-StoragePool

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