System center PXE OSD reboots immediately, logs show 80004005
I'm trying to get PXE deployments working and running into a wall. The wim will boot up and the gui will go through a few steps. When it gets to "configuring network" or something like that, it reboots. Unless I already have the
command prompt open. I know it has the right network drivers, partly because it's running in a hyper-v VM and partly because I can map shares from the server. Time is synced to at least the mine on the computers. Here's an excerpt from the
log it leaves. I'm running SCCM 2012 R2 on Windows Server 2012 R2 and deploying the same. Any suggestions?
<![LOG[Successfully read 48 policy assignments.]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.812+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="1" thread="828" file="tspolicy.cpp:990">
<![LOG[Downloading policy body SCL20001-SCL00007-6F6BCC28.]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.812+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="1" thread="828" file="tspolicy.cpp:2103">
<![LOG[Preparing Policy Body Request.]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.812+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="0" thread="828" file="tspolicy.cpp:2106">
<![LOG[ Setting transport.]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.812+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="0" thread="828" file="tspolicy.cpp:2107">
<![LOG[ Setting policy location = http://<mp>/SMS_MP/.sms_pol?SCL20001-SCL00007-6F6BCC28.1_00.]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.812+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="0" thread="828" file="tspolicy.cpp:2109">
<![LOG[Executing Policy Body Request.]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.812+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="0" thread="828" file="tspolicy.cpp:2126">
<![LOG[CLibSMSMessageWinHttpTransport::Send: URL: systemcenter2.sclab.com:80 GET /SMS_MP/.sms_pol?SCL20001-SCL00007-6F6BCC28.1_00]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.831+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="1" thread="828" file="libsmsmessaging.cpp:8604">
<![LOG[Request was successful.]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.859+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="0" thread="828" file="libsmsmessaging.cpp:8939">
<![LOG[Found a secure policy.]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.874+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="1" thread="828" file="libsmsmessaging.cpp:4561">
<![LOG[Trying to decode policy.]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.874+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="1" thread="828" file="libsmsmessaging.cpp:4565">
<![LOG[Policy decoded.]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.905+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="1" thread="828" file="libsmsmessaging.cpp:4600">
<![LOG[Hash computed from CSP: Microsoft Enhanced RSA and AES Cryptographic Provider, AlgID: 32780, HashSize: 32 ]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.905+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="0" thread="828" file="libcrypt.cpp:700">
<![LOG[Expected Hash size: 32, Computed Hash size: 32 ]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.905+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="0" thread="828" file="libcrypt.cpp:747">
<![LOG[Request location: HTTP://<MP>/SMS_MP/.SMS_POL?SCL20001-SCL00007-6F6BCC28.1_00]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.921+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="1" thread="828" file="libsmsmessaging.cpp:4813">
<![LOG[Response ID: SCL20001-SCL00007-6F6BCC28]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.921+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="1" thread="828" file="libsmsmessaging.cpp:4814">
<![LOG[cannot load XML reply]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.952+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="3" thread="828" file="libsmsmessaging.cpp:4298">
<![LOG[ParsePolicyBody(), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\framework\osdmessaging\libsmsmessaging.cpp,4821)]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.952+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="0" thread="828" file="libsmsmessaging.cpp:4821">
<![LOG[oPolicy.RequestPolicy((GetPolicyFlags() & POLICY_SECURE) != 0, (GetPolicyFlags() & POLICY_COMPRESS) != 0), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\framework\tscore\tspolicy.cpp,2130)]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.952+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="0" thread="828" file="tspolicy.cpp:2130">
<![LOG[Failed to download policy SCL20001-SCL00007-6F6BCC28 (Code 0x80004005).]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.952+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="3" thread="828" file="tspolicy.cpp:2130">
<![LOG[(*iTSPolicyAssignment)->GetObjects(pszClassName, aTSPolicyObjectArray ), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\framework\tscore\tspolicy.cpp,1223)]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.952+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="0" thread="828" file="tspolicy.cpp:1223">
<![LOG[m_pPolicyManager->GetObjects( TS::Policy::TaskSequence::GetClassNameW(), TS::Policy::TaskSequence::GetPolicyCategory(), TS::Policy::TSPolicyAssignment::POLICY_TS_FOR_CD_AND_PXE, aTSPolicyObjectArray ), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\client\tasksequence\tsmbootstrap\tsmediawizardcontrol.cpp,1246)]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.952+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="0" thread="828" file="tsmediawizardcontrol.cpp:1246">
<![LOG[Exiting TSMediaWizardControl::GetPolicy.]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.952+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="0" thread="828" file="tsmediawizardcontrol.cpp:1419">
<![LOG[GetPolicy(), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\client\tasksequence\tsmbootstrap\tsmediawizardcontrol.cpp,2492)]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.952+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="0" thread="828" file="tsmediawizardcontrol.cpp:2492">
<![LOG[RunWizardForPXE(), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\client\tasksequence\tsmbootstrap\tsmediawizardcontrol.cpp,2834)]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.952+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="0" thread="828" file="tsmediawizardcontrol.cpp:2834">
<![LOG[oTSMediaWizardControl.Run( sMediaRoot, true, sTSLaunchMode ), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\client\tasksequence\tsmbootstrap\tsmbootstrap.cpp,1078)]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.952+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="0" thread="828" file="tsmbootstrap.cpp:1078">
<![LOG[Execute( eExecutionEnv, sConfigPath, sTSXMLFile, uBootCount, &uExitCode ), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\client\tasksequence\tsmbootstrap\tsmbootstrap.cpp,1226)]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.952+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="0" thread="828" file="tsmbootstrap.cpp:1226">
<![LOG[Exiting with return code 0x80004005]LOG]!><time="12:25:30.952+420" date="04-01-2014" component="TSPxe" context="" type="1" thread="828" file="tsmbootstrap.cpp:1238">
At some point I had do add prestart command for my WinPE boot image to 'wait' a while so that the network gets up:
ping sccmserver.domain.local -n 10
Btw. is the TS deployed as Available? Is the computer in case Unknown or does it exist in the console?
I can immediately ping/map when opening the command prompt. I'll try the prestart command and see what it does.
Yes, the task sequence is listed as deployed and available to All Systems. The computer does not exist in the console (though it gets created after the first time, but OSD still dies the same way).
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If that doesn't help, boot from the install DVD again and once past the language selection screen go to the Utilities menu and choose "Reset password" ( NOT "firmware password"). Select your start up disk and then your account from the pull-down menu. Click "reset ACLs and permissions" button at the bottom.
Restart and see if you can log in now. If you still can't your user account is seriously messed up and I would suggest creating a new one and moving your files there.
If you don't have another user set up, start from the leopard install DVD again and start the "reset password" utility again. This time select System administrator (root) from the pull down menu and set a password for root. This will enable root user on your machine. Restart and at the login window select other and log in as root with the password you just set. If you can's log in as root you a looking for a system reinstall. If you can log in as root, go to account preferences in system preferences and set up a new admin user. move your stuff from the corrupt user to the new one and work from that account. -
Cannot logon to Firefox now that version 10 has been installed. I cannot even delete the program from my system. To delete it gives the same message "Your system has to be rebooted" What is going on?
Hi Cot230tage,
Usually the only reason it will ask you to reboot is if there is a file that must be modified that the updater doesn't currently have access to. You should try running the Firefox program once as Administrator:
* Right-click the icon and choose ''Run as Administrator''
If that doesn't help then do a clean reinstall.
# Download a fresh copy of Firefox from the [http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/fx/ Mozilla download page] and save the file to the desktop.
# [[Uninstalling Firefox|Uninstall]] your current version of Firefox and remove the Firefox program folder before running the new installer.
# Run installer
Remember that you don't want to remove personal data when uninstalling. That way you'll still have your personal information.
Hopefully this helps! -
PXE OSD Task Sequence fails to run on new laptop
We are trying to run a working PXE OSD task sequence on a new HP laptop. It's a Elitebook 840 G2. We've downloaded the provided driver package & created a new driver package in SCCM. We inserted the driver into the boot image &
updated the DPs. When we PXE boot the laptop it flashes the splash screen & reboots. Other laptops & desktops boot properly. This looks like a driver issue but we wanted to run it past the forum to see if anyone had any other suggestions.
The SMSTS log file is copied below.
LOGGING: Finalize process ID set to 728
TSBootShell
4/23/2015 4:20:40 PM
732 (0x02DC)
==============================[ TSBootShell.exe ]==============================
TSBootShell 4/23/2015 4:20:40 PM
732 (0x02DC)
Succeeded loading resource DLL 'X:\sms\bin\i386\1033\TSRES.DLL'
TSBootShell 4/23/2015 4:20:40 PM
732 (0x02DC)
Debug shell is enabled TSBootShell
4/23/2015 4:20:40 PM 732 (0x02DC)
Waiting for PNP initialization... TSBootShell
4/23/2015 4:20:40 PM 736 (0x02E0)
RAM Disk Boot Path: NET(0)\SMSIMAGES\ALN00001\BOOT.ALN00001.WIM
TSBootShell 4/23/2015 4:20:40 PM
736 (0x02E0)
Booted from network (PXE) TSBootShell
4/23/2015 4:20:40 PM 736 (0x02E0)
Network(PXE) path: X:\sms\data\ TSBootShell
4/23/2015 4:20:40 PM 736 (0x02E0)
Found config path X:\sms\data\ TSBootShell
4/23/2015 4:20:40 PM 736 (0x02E0)
Booting from removable media, not restoring bootloaders on hard drive
TSBootShell 4/23/2015 4:20:40 PM
736 (0x02E0)
X:\sms\data\WinPE does not exist. TSBootShell
4/23/2015 4:20:40 PM 736 (0x02E0)
X:\_SmsTsWinPE\WinPE does not exist. TSBootShell
4/23/2015 4:20:40 PM 736 (0x02E0)
Executing command line: wpeinit.exe -winpe TSBootShell
4/23/2015 4:20:40 PM 736 (0x02E0)
Executing command line: X:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /k
TSBootShell 4/23/2015 4:20:40 PM
732 (0x02DC)
The command completed successfully. TSBootShell
4/23/2015 4:20:40 PM 732 (0x02DC)
Successfully launched command shell. TSBootShell
4/23/2015 4:20:40 PM 732 (0x02DC)
Executing command line: X:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /k
TSBootShell 4/23/2015 4:20:41 PM
732 (0x02DC)
The command completed successfully. TSBootShell
4/23/2015 4:20:41 PM 732 (0x02DC)
Successfully launched command shell. TSBootShell
4/23/2015 4:20:41 PM 732 (0x02DC)
Executing command line: X:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /k
TSBootShell 4/23/2015 4:20:41 PM
732 (0x02DC)
The command completed successfully. TSBootShell
4/23/2015 4:20:41 PM 732 (0x02DC)
Successfully launched command shell. TSBootShell
4/23/2015 4:20:41 PM 732 (0x02DC)
The command completed successfully. TSBootShell
4/23/2015 4:20:43 PM 736 (0x02E0)
Starting DNS client service. TSBootShell
4/23/2015 4:20:43 PM 736 (0x02E0)
Executing command line: X:\sms\bin\i386\TsmBootstrap.exe /env:WinPE /configpath:X:\sms\data\
TSBootShell 4/23/2015 4:20:44 PM
736 (0x02E0)
The command completed successfully. TSBootShell
4/23/2015 4:20:44 PM 736 (0x02E0)
==============================[ TSMBootStrap.exe ]==============================
TSMBootstrap 4/23/2015 4:20:44 PM
1124 (0x0464)
Command line: X:\sms\bin\i386\TsmBootstrap.exe /env:WinPE /configpath:X:\sms\data\
TSMBootstrap 4/23/2015 4:20:44 PM
1124 (0x0464)
Succeeded loading resource DLL 'X:\sms\bin\i386\1033\TSRES.DLL'
TSMBootstrap 4/23/2015 4:20:44 PM
1124 (0x0464)
Succeeded loading resource DLL 'X:\sms\bin\i386\TSRESNLC.DLL'
TSMBootstrap 4/23/2015 4:20:44 PM
1124 (0x0464)
Current OS version is 6.2.9200.0 TSMBootstrap
4/23/2015 4:20:44 PM 1124 (0x0464)
Adding SMS bin folder "X:\sms\bin\i386" to the system environment PATH
TSMBootstrap 4/23/2015 4:20:44 PM
1124 (0x0464)
PXE Boot with Root = X:\ TSMBootstrap
4/23/2015 4:20:44 PM 1124 (0x0464)
Executing from PXE in WinPE TSMBootstrap
4/23/2015 4:20:44 PM 1124 (0x0464)
Loading TsPxe.dll from X:\sms\bin\i386\TsPxe.dll
TSMBootstrap 4/23/2015 4:20:44 PM
1124 (0x0464)
TsPxe.dll loaded TSPxe
4/23/2015 4:20:44 PM 1124 (0x0464)
Device has PXE booted TSPxe
4/23/2015 4:20:44 PM 1124 (0x0464)
Variable Path: \SMSTemp\2015.04.22.16.21.10.0001.{8EBA05A2-1AB7-4CBB-9DDD-497DFE8E5E07}.boot.var
TSPxe 4/23/2015 4:20:44 PM
1124 (0x0464)
Succesfully added firewall rule for Tftp TSPxe
4/23/2015 4:20:44 PM 1124 (0x0464)
Executing: X:\sms\bin\i386\smstftp.exe -i 172.20.100.51 get \SMSTemp\2015.04.22.16.21.10.0001.{8EBA05A2-1AB7-4CBB-9DDD-497DFE8E5E07}.boot.var X:\sms\data\variables.dat
TSPxe 4/23/2015 4:20:44 PM
1124 (0x0464)
Command line for extension .exe is "%1" %*
TSPxe 4/23/2015 4:20:44 PM
1124 (0x0464)
Set command line: "X:\sms\bin\i386\smstftp.exe" -i 172.20.100.51 get \SMSTemp\2015.04.22.16.21.10.0001.{8EBA05A2-1AB7-4CBB-9DDD-497DFE8E5E07}.boot.var X:\sms\data\variables.dat
TSPxe 4/23/2015 4:20:44 PM
1124 (0x0464)
Executing command line: "X:\sms\bin\i386\smstftp.exe" -i 172.20.100.51 get \SMSTemp\2015.04.22.16.21.10.0001.{8EBA05A2-1AB7-4CBB-9DDD-497DFE8E5E07}.boot.var X:\sms\data\variables.dat
TSPxe 4/23/2015 4:20:44 PM
1124 (0x0464)
Process completed with exit code 1 TSPxe
4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM 1124 (0x0464)
Succesfully removed firewall rule for Tftp TSPxe
4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM 1124 (0x0464)
uExitCode == 0, HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\server\pxe\tspxe\tspxe.cpp,185)
TSPxe 4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM
1124 (0x0464)
Failed to download pxe variable file. Code(0x00000001)
TSPxe 4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM
1124 (0x0464)
PxeGetPxeData failed with 0x80004005
TSPxe 4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM
1124 (0x0464)
HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(dwError), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\client\tasksequence\tsmbootstrap\tsmbootstraputil.cpp,1459)
TSPxe 4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM
1124 (0x0464)
TSMBootstrapUtil::PxeGetPxeData(&bPxeBooted, sVariablesFile, sPxePasswd), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\client\tasksequence\tsmbootstrap\tsmediawizardcontrol.cpp,2667)
TSPxe 4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM
1124 (0x0464)
oTSMediaWizardControl.Run( sMediaRoot, true, sTSLaunchMode ), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\client\tasksequence\tsmbootstrap\tsmbootstrap.cpp,1078)
TSPxe 4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM
1124 (0x0464)
Execute( eExecutionEnv, sConfigPath, sTSXMLFile, uBootCount, &uExitCode ), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\client\tasksequence\tsmbootstrap\tsmbootstrap.cpp,1226)
TSPxe 4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM
1124 (0x0464)
Exiting with return code 0x80004005 TSPxe
4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM 1124 (0x0464)
hMap != 0, HRESULT=80070002 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\framework\tscore\environmentscope.cpp,493)
TSPxe 4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM
1124 (0x0464)
m_pGlobalScope->open(), HRESULT=80070002 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\framework\tscore\environmentlib.cpp,335)
TSPxe 4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM
1124 (0x0464)
this->open(), HRESULT=80070002 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\framework\tscore\environmentlib.cpp,553)
TSPxe 4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM
1124 (0x0464)
Execution complete. TSBootShell
4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM 736 (0x02E0)
hMap != 0, HRESULT=80070002 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\framework\tscore\environmentscope.cpp,493)
TSBootShell 4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM
736 (0x02E0)
m_pGlobalScope->open(), HRESULT=80070002 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\framework\tscore\environmentlib.cpp,335)
TSBootShell 4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM
736 (0x02E0)
this->open(), HRESULT=80070002 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\framework\tscore\environmentlib.cpp,553)
TSBootShell 4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM
736 (0x02E0)
::RegOpenKeyExW (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, sKey.c_str(), 0, KEY_READ, &hSubKey), HRESULT=80070002 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\framework\tscore\utils.cpp,809)
TSBootShell 4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM
736 (0x02E0)
RegOpenKeyExW is unsuccessful for Software\Microsoft\SMS\Task Sequence
TSBootShell 4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM
736 (0x02E0)
GetTsRegValue() is unsuccessful. 0x80070002.
TSBootShell 4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM
736 (0x02E0)
End program: TSBootShell
4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM 736 (0x02E0)
Finalizing logging from process 728 TSBootShell
4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM 736 (0x02E0)
Finalizing logs to root of first available drive
TSBootShell 4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM
736 (0x02E0)
LOGGING: Setting log directory to "D:\SMSTSLog".
TSBootShell 4/23/2015 4:21:31 PM
736 (0x02E0)Press F8 in order to get a cmd window and see if the client got an IP address.
Torsten Meringer |
There's no IP Address when trying to the command prompt. It doesn't even show a MAC Address. -
March's TechNet Wiki System Center Guru Winners announced!!
The results for March'sTechNet
Guru competition have been posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2014/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2014.aspx <- results page!
Congratulations to all our new Gurus for March!
We will be interviewing some of the winners and highlighting their achievements, as the month unfolds.
Below is a summary of the medal winners, the last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however the full version is shown in the link above.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2014
Tomasso Groenendijk
Using BAM in the ESB Toolkit
Ed Price: "Incredibly valuable and very well written! Great article!"
Mandi Ohlinger: "A custom BAM dashboard - LOVE it! Another great ESB addition to the Wiki."
TGN: "Nice one, I really liked this one, explains how to use the ESB together with BAM, great work and well explained!"
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Windows Azure BizTalk Services: Pulling Messages from a Service Bus Queue
Ed Price: "This is amazingly well written with beautiful images and formatting. Great job!"
TGN: "Azure, Azure, Azure! Nice one Steef-Jan, people are waiting on articles like this. Good job, and thanks for the contribution!"
Mandi Ohlinger: "A very informative How To. Screen shots are very helpful."
boatseller
Detecting a Missing Message
Mandi Ohlinger: "GREAT addition to the Wiki and to any user who suspects missing messages. The BizTalk support team can use this orchestration. "
Ed Price: "I love the visuals on the orchestration implementation! Important topic!"
TGN: "Nice article, great to see a solution to detect missing files."
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2014
Eihab Isaac
FIM 2010 R2 BHOLD: Non-BHOLD Approval Process
Ed Price: "Very thorough explanations! Great formatting and colors on the tables and code snippets! And the images are also helpful!"
PG: "Nice article, we need more of these."
Micah Rowland
FIM:How To Use PowerShell to View a Metaverse Object's Connector's Attribututes
Side By Side
PG: "Nice article, nice format. well written"
Ed Price: "Good code snippet and use of code comments. Could use more explanations and maybe breaking the code into sections with more information about each section. Good job!"
Giriraj Singh
FIM:Delete Bulk Expected Rule Entries Using FIM OTB features
Ed Price: "Good procedural steps! It could benefit from more explanations, a grammar pass, and some images. Good article!"
PG: "Short but nice article."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2014
Matthew Yarlett
SharePoint: Use PowerShell to find Fields using a Managed Metadata TermSet
Jinchun Chen: "Good article."
Ed Price: "Although this is Matt's shorter article this month, this is an incredibly important topic, and the code is perfect! As Dan says in the comments: "Matthew Yarlett has done it again!! IMHO when it comes to SharePoint powershell
you are second to none." This is a great article!"
Rahul A Shinde
SharePoint 2013: Deploy and apply theme to SharePoint sites with PowerShell
Ed Price: "Fantastic explanations and use of images!"
Matthew Yarlett
SharePoint: Testing Email Alerts in UAT and DEV Environments
Jinchun Chen: "Nice! It can be used for troubleshooting SharePoint Incoming/Outgoing related issues too."
Ed Price: "Wow! This article is astonishingly thorough!"
Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2014
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Centering Text in Graphics Window
RZ: "Clearly written explanation with nice graphics to go with it."
Ed Price: "I love having the three options like this! And the images really bring it to life! The links to the shared programs (with their source code) really help if you want to dig deeper and learn more!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic Known Issue: 23589
- Controls.GetTextBoxText() Returns CR+LF as Newline from Multi-Line Text Box in Local but CR in Remote
RZ: "Bugs are always hard to track down, especially the unknown unknowns :( Good job on hunting it down!"
Ed Price: "This acts as a valuable KB article! Great addition to the troubleshooting library!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Expression
RZ: "Good introduction to expressions"
Ed Price: "Short and sweet intro to Expressions. Thanks, Nonki!"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2014
Michael Amadi
A Practical Example of How to Apply Power Query Data
Transformations on Structured and Unstructured Datasets
NN: "This is a terrific tutorial on Power Pivot with very helpful images. Great article"
Ed Price: "This is a fantastic combination of Power Query and Power Pivot... a valuable contribution!"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2014
chandra sekhar pathivada
managing database backups across all the instances without maintenance plan
Samuel Lester: "Chandra, outstanding contribution and information! Your SSIS package handles many of the shortcomings of Maintenance Plans. MPs were originally created to assist DBAs with the more common administrative
tasks, but as the scale continues to grow across enterprise environments, we're all forced to write our own enhanced versions such as this. Thanks for the addition and please do add to the Gallery if you haven't yet."
Jinchun Chen: "Nice. It is suggested to add error outputs in the package to handler unexpected errors."
NN: "Good article. The SSIS solution can use a bit more explanation. Also See Also section is missing"
DRC: "This is good article, The only this which can be corrected is : ==> This can be achieved using “maintenance Cleanup Task • Maintenance Plan has a control flow item “maintenance Cleanup Task” to delete the old backup files based
on age of the backup, but it creates the problem when it deletes the full database backups based on n no.of days leaving all the dependent intermediate differential and transaction logs which are useless. "
Shanky
Understanding Logging in Tempdb.Is Tempdb re-created or rebuilt after SQL
Server restart
NN: "Very good article with an interesting analysis"
DRC: "This article is good and provides lots of detailed information along with sample query and screenshot. The screenshot of few need few more details (files of model are missing) This article can be broken down into 2 1) understanding
tempdb recreation 2) Logging in Tempdb 1) understanding tempdb recreation:- This is not concluded properly. The article doesnt talk about the physical files which are recreated even if we delete the tempdb files "
Samuel Lester: "Shanky, very nice article on the internals of TempDB! It was tough judging this month as both articles were very informative contributions!"
System Center Technical Guru - March 2014
Mr X
How to manage VM pinning within a Hyper-V cluster by
combining the use of System Center VMM and Orchestrator
Ed Price: "Mr. X, this is another incredibly thorough article! Fantastic job!"
Idan Vexler
Create Custom XML For OSD In SCCM
Ed Price: "Love the list of requirements! Very thorough in dividing each step!"
Omar Lopez (loplim)
SCOM 2012 - Create Alert / Monitor Based on Windows event ( Administrator login
alert )
Ed Price: "Good use of images. Could use a TOC with sections and more descriptions. Good job!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2014
Jayakumaur (JK)
Understanding IDENTITY in SQL Server
Ed Price: "Wow, what a competitive month! This article is amazing, with thorough explanations in each section!"
Richard Mueller: "A good tutorial on an important feature of T-SQL."
Durval Ramos
Paging a Query with SQL Server
Ed Price: "Durval's article is fantastically thorough and easy to follow!"
Richard Mueller: "Very useful concept when populating controls from a query, which should improve performance. I like the images. Well done."
Naomi N
T-SQL: Split String with a Twist
Richard Mueller: "Very intersting problem with an original solution."
Ed Price: "A very powerful and well-articulated solution from Naomi!"
Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2014
The Thinker
Exporting and Importing Wireless Settings Using Netsh in VB.NET
SB: "Code could be formatted better, task is something I can see as potentially useful although I would prefer a bit more narrative description and comments in the code explaining why it was done a certain
way, although the code is simple enough to work through."
MR: "Great tool code!"
Ed Price: "This is a good contribution! One way to improve an article like this is to explain the parts of the code more in depth, as a way to introduce each snippet (and maybe dividing a block up more). Then you could link to the Gallery
iteam if the reader wants to access the entire snippet at once. The images are also very helpful! Great job!"
Richard Mueller: "Perhaps this code should be in the gallery. There should be more explanation in a Wiki."
Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2014
João Sousa
ASP.NET WebAPI 2 - Stream Windows Azure blobs
NN: "Very nice tutorial and also can be downloaded from the Gallery"
Ed Price: "I love to see this ASP.NET content! Each step is very clear! Great code formatting!"
Raghunathan S
C# Code Compilation at Runtime from C# Windows Forms Application
Ed Price: "Good descriptions and code formatting. It could benefit from a TOC. Great article!"
NN: "This looks like an interesting article, but too short and the code is hard to read in its present format"
Raghunathan S
Creating a Simple logging class with System.Diagnostics namespace in C#
NN: "Good article, but too short"
Ed Price: "This is a pretty good article. It could benefit from a TOC and more descriptions around what the code is doing and why. Good job!"
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2014
Matthew Yarlett
Wiki: Basic Image Formatting using Pixlr
BL: "This deserves credit as much for the idea as for the actual article - many authors contribute from computers that may not have authoring tools installed and this simple online solution has the potential to iprove
quality a lot."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent explanation of a useful tool for Wiki authors. A "See Also" section would be useful."
PG: "Nice artilce, well done, nice layout. Great!"
NN: "Good article"
Durval Ramos
VBA & VBS Portal
NN: "Very good new portal about VBA. Introduction may be improved a bit"
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of Wiki articles. Excellent use of recommended features in a Wiki article."
PG: "Nice article good start!"
BL: "Another great initial compilation of relevant resources. Would be very interested in seeing how this develop over time."
Mr X
Wiki: System Center Orchestrator Portal
NN: "Good new portal. Missing See Also section with links to other portals"
Richard Mueller: "A good collection of articles. This Portal adds a lot to the TechNet Wiki."
PG: "Nice and neat article? Suggestion to add more references to related articles and platforms on Wiki."
BL: "great initial compilation of SC Orchestrator resources. Hoping this will grow over time as the product has a few other active Wiki contributors."
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2014
Isham Mohamed
Pin Windows Phone 8 app to start screen on first launch.
Peter Laker: "A very useful and informative article! Also, Nice use of fonts and images."
Ed Price: "Good explanation, but it could benefit from a TOC and tweaked formatting. Good job!"
Ibraheem Osama Mohamed
Coming from an asp.net background, let’s build our first Windows Store Application
Ed Price: "Great job on the formatting, explanations, and code snippets!"
Peter Laker: "Excellent primer for those moving from asp.net and all beginners."
mcosmin
The Performance Analyzer Paradox
Ed Price: "This is a good philosophical article, but it would be richer with examples and visuals. "
Peter Laker: "Nice story, good reading, very worthy entry and gratefully received!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2014
Magnus (MM8)
WPF/MVVM: Handling Changes To Dependency Properties In The View
Ed Price: "Nice, thorough topic with good explanations! Could benefit from code formatting. Great article!"
Peter Laker: "A nice primer on a fundamental aspect of xaml. Great layout, images, descriptions, etc."
dev hedgehog
Trick To Use StaticResource With Path
Peter Laker: "A very useful and commonly pondered subject. Thanks for a great contribution!"
Ed Price: "This is a great solution with good code formatting and code comments!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2014
Mr X
How to manage your DC/DNS servers with dynamic IPs in Windows Azure
JM: "This is an excellent article, however you need to change all instances of the term "on-promise" to "on-premise.""
JH: "really detailed, very complete with scripts added"
Richard Mueller: "This might be the best article I have judged. Code formatting could be improved, but otherwise an outstanding contribution."
Mr X
How to assign a private Static IP to a Windows Azure VM
JH: "excellent, concise, good topic"
Richard Mueller: "Excellent documentation of the use of very new tools to manage IP addresses."
JM: "Another excellent article, thanks much for your contributions!"
Mahdi Tehrani
Customize DST time zone configuration across the forest with GPO
JM: "This is an excellent article, however you need to change all instances of the term "Daylight Time Saving" to "Daylight Savings Time.""
JH: "good info, great illustrations and writing"
Richard Mueller: "Original work for an tricky problem. I think the script should run as a Startup script instead of a Logon script on the clients. A "See Also" section and links would help."
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As mentioned above, runners up and their judge feedback were removed from this forum post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
A great big thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to last month's competition.
Read all about THIS month's competition [usually in a stickied post] at the top of this forum, otherwise there is usually a list of forum links for this month's theme/announcement at the bottom of the submission page below:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/23837.technet-guru-contributions-for-april-2014.aspx
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
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Microsoft User Groups Portal. Microsoft are trying to help promote your groups, and collating them here is the first step.Congrats to Mr X, Idan, and Omar:
System Center Technical Guru - March 2014
Mr X
How to manage VM pinning within a Hyper-V cluster by
combining the use of System Center VMM and Orchestrator
Ed Price: "Mr. X, this is another incredibly thorough article! Fantastic job!"
Idan Vexler
Create Custom XML For OSD In SCCM
Ed Price: "Love the list of requirements! Very thorough in dividing each step!"
Omar Lopez (loplim)
SCOM 2012 - Create Alert / Monitor Based on Windows event ( Administrator login
alert )
Ed Price: "Good use of images. Could use a TOC with sections and more descriptions. Good job!"
Ed Price, Power BI & SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
April's TechNet Wiki System Center Guru Winners announced!!
The results for March'sTechNet
Guru competition have been posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2014/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2014.aspx <- results page!
Congratulations to all our new Gurus for March!
We will be interviewing some of the winners and highlighting their achievements, as the month unfolds.
Below is a summary of the medal winners, the last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however the full version is shown in the link above.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2014
Tomasso Groenendijk
Using BAM in the ESB Toolkit
Ed Price: "Incredibly valuable and very well written! Great article!"
Mandi Ohlinger: "A custom BAM dashboard - LOVE it! Another great ESB addition to the Wiki."
TGN: "Nice one, I really liked this one, explains how to use the ESB together with BAM, great work and well explained!"
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Windows Azure BizTalk Services: Pulling Messages from a Service Bus Queue
Ed Price: "This is amazingly well written with beautiful images and formatting. Great job!"
TGN: "Azure, Azure, Azure! Nice one Steef-Jan, people are waiting on articles like this. Good job, and thanks for the contribution!"
Mandi Ohlinger: "A very informative How To. Screen shots are very helpful."
boatseller
Detecting a Missing Message
Mandi Ohlinger: "GREAT addition to the Wiki and to any user who suspects missing messages. The BizTalk support team can use this orchestration. "
Ed Price: "I love the visuals on the orchestration implementation! Important topic!"
TGN: "Nice article, great to see a solution to detect missing files."
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2014
Eihab Isaac
FIM 2010 R2 BHOLD: Non-BHOLD Approval Process
Ed Price: "Very thorough explanations! Great formatting and colors on the tables and code snippets! And the images are also helpful!"
PG: "Nice article, we need more of these."
Micah Rowland
FIM:How To Use PowerShell to View a Metaverse Object's Connector's Attribututes
Side By Side
PG: "Nice article, nice format. well written"
Ed Price: "Good code snippet and use of code comments. Could use more explanations and maybe breaking the code into sections with more information about each section. Good job!"
Giriraj Singh
FIM:Delete Bulk Expected Rule Entries Using FIM OTB features
Ed Price: "Good procedural steps! It could benefit from more explanations, a grammar pass, and some images. Good article!"
PG: "Short but nice article."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2014
Matthew Yarlett
SharePoint: Use PowerShell to find Fields using a Managed Metadata TermSet
Jinchun Chen: "Good article."
Ed Price: "Although this is Matt's shorter article this month, this is an incredibly important topic, and the code is perfect! As Dan says in the comments: "Matthew Yarlett has done it again!! IMHO when it comes to SharePoint powershell
you are second to none." This is a great article!"
Rahul A Shinde
SharePoint 2013: Deploy and apply theme to SharePoint sites with PowerShell
Ed Price: "Fantastic explanations and use of images!"
Matthew Yarlett
SharePoint: Testing Email Alerts in UAT and DEV Environments
Jinchun Chen: "Nice! It can be used for troubleshooting SharePoint Incoming/Outgoing related issues too."
Ed Price: "Wow! This article is astonishingly thorough!"
Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2014
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Centering Text in Graphics Window
RZ: "Clearly written explanation with nice graphics to go with it."
Ed Price: "I love having the three options like this! And the images really bring it to life! The links to the shared programs (with their source code) really help if you want to dig deeper and learn more!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic Known Issue: 23589
- Controls.GetTextBoxText() Returns CR+LF as Newline from Multi-Line Text Box in Local but CR in Remote
RZ: "Bugs are always hard to track down, especially the unknown unknowns :( Good job on hunting it down!"
Ed Price: "This acts as a valuable KB article! Great addition to the troubleshooting library!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Expression
RZ: "Good introduction to expressions"
Ed Price: "Short and sweet intro to Expressions. Thanks, Nonki!"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2014
Michael Amadi
A Practical Example of How to Apply Power Query Data
Transformations on Structured and Unstructured Datasets
NN: "This is a terrific tutorial on Power Pivot with very helpful images. Great article"
Ed Price: "This is a fantastic combination of Power Query and Power Pivot... a valuable contribution!"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2014
chandra sekhar pathivada
managing database backups across all the instances without maintenance plan
Samuel Lester: "Chandra, outstanding contribution and information! Your SSIS package handles many of the shortcomings of Maintenance Plans. MPs were originally created to assist DBAs with the more common administrative
tasks, but as the scale continues to grow across enterprise environments, we're all forced to write our own enhanced versions such as this. Thanks for the addition and please do add to the Gallery if you haven't yet."
Jinchun Chen: "Nice. It is suggested to add error outputs in the package to handler unexpected errors."
NN: "Good article. The SSIS solution can use a bit more explanation. Also See Also section is missing"
DRC: "This is good article, The only this which can be corrected is : ==> This can be achieved using “maintenance Cleanup Task • Maintenance Plan has a control flow item “maintenance Cleanup Task” to delete the old backup files based
on age of the backup, but it creates the problem when it deletes the full database backups based on n no.of days leaving all the dependent intermediate differential and transaction logs which are useless. "
Shanky
Understanding Logging in Tempdb.Is Tempdb re-created or rebuilt after SQL
Server restart
NN: "Very good article with an interesting analysis"
DRC: "This article is good and provides lots of detailed information along with sample query and screenshot. The screenshot of few need few more details (files of model are missing) This article can be broken down into 2 1) understanding
tempdb recreation 2) Logging in Tempdb 1) understanding tempdb recreation:- This is not concluded properly. The article doesnt talk about the physical files which are recreated even if we delete the tempdb files "
Samuel Lester: "Shanky, very nice article on the internals of TempDB! It was tough judging this month as both articles were very informative contributions!"
System Center Technical Guru - March 2014
Mr X
How to manage VM pinning within a Hyper-V cluster by
combining the use of System Center VMM and Orchestrator
Ed Price: "Mr. X, this is another incredibly thorough article! Fantastic job!"
Idan Vexler
Create Custom XML For OSD In SCCM
Ed Price: "Love the list of requirements! Very thorough in dividing each step!"
Omar Lopez (loplim)
SCOM 2012 - Create Alert / Monitor Based on Windows event ( Administrator login
alert )
Ed Price: "Good use of images. Could use a TOC with sections and more descriptions. Good job!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2014
Jayakumaur (JK)
Understanding IDENTITY in SQL Server
Ed Price: "Wow, what a competitive month! This article is amazing, with thorough explanations in each section!"
Richard Mueller: "A good tutorial on an important feature of T-SQL."
Durval Ramos
Paging a Query with SQL Server
Ed Price: "Durval's article is fantastically thorough and easy to follow!"
Richard Mueller: "Very useful concept when populating controls from a query, which should improve performance. I like the images. Well done."
Naomi N
T-SQL: Split String with a Twist
Richard Mueller: "Very intersting problem with an original solution."
Ed Price: "A very powerful and well-articulated solution from Naomi!"
Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2014
The Thinker
Exporting and Importing Wireless Settings Using Netsh in VB.NET
SB: "Code could be formatted better, task is something I can see as potentially useful although I would prefer a bit more narrative description and comments in the code explaining why it was done a certain
way, although the code is simple enough to work through."
MR: "Great tool code!"
Ed Price: "This is a good contribution! One way to improve an article like this is to explain the parts of the code more in depth, as a way to introduce each snippet (and maybe dividing a block up more). Then you could link to the Gallery
iteam if the reader wants to access the entire snippet at once. The images are also very helpful! Great job!"
Richard Mueller: "Perhaps this code should be in the gallery. There should be more explanation in a Wiki."
Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2014
João Sousa
ASP.NET WebAPI 2 - Stream Windows Azure blobs
NN: "Very nice tutorial and also can be downloaded from the Gallery"
Ed Price: "I love to see this ASP.NET content! Each step is very clear! Great code formatting!"
Raghunathan S
C# Code Compilation at Runtime from C# Windows Forms Application
Ed Price: "Good descriptions and code formatting. It could benefit from a TOC. Great article!"
NN: "This looks like an interesting article, but too short and the code is hard to read in its present format"
Raghunathan S
Creating a Simple logging class with System.Diagnostics namespace in C#
NN: "Good article, but too short"
Ed Price: "This is a pretty good article. It could benefit from a TOC and more descriptions around what the code is doing and why. Good job!"
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2014
Matthew Yarlett
Wiki: Basic Image Formatting using Pixlr
BL: "This deserves credit as much for the idea as for the actual article - many authors contribute from computers that may not have authoring tools installed and this simple online solution has the potential to iprove
quality a lot."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent explanation of a useful tool for Wiki authors. A "See Also" section would be useful."
PG: "Nice artilce, well done, nice layout. Great!"
NN: "Good article"
Durval Ramos
VBA & VBS Portal
NN: "Very good new portal about VBA. Introduction may be improved a bit"
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of Wiki articles. Excellent use of recommended features in a Wiki article."
PG: "Nice article good start!"
BL: "Another great initial compilation of relevant resources. Would be very interested in seeing how this develop over time."
Mr X
Wiki: System Center Orchestrator Portal
NN: "Good new portal. Missing See Also section with links to other portals"
Richard Mueller: "A good collection of articles. This Portal adds a lot to the TechNet Wiki."
PG: "Nice and neat article? Suggestion to add more references to related articles and platforms on Wiki."
BL: "great initial compilation of SC Orchestrator resources. Hoping this will grow over time as the product has a few other active Wiki contributors."
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2014
Isham Mohamed
Pin Windows Phone 8 app to start screen on first launch.
Peter Laker: "A very useful and informative article! Also, Nice use of fonts and images."
Ed Price: "Good explanation, but it could benefit from a TOC and tweaked formatting. Good job!"
Ibraheem Osama Mohamed
Coming from an asp.net background, let’s build our first Windows Store Application
Ed Price: "Great job on the formatting, explanations, and code snippets!"
Peter Laker: "Excellent primer for those moving from asp.net and all beginners."
mcosmin
The Performance Analyzer Paradox
Ed Price: "This is a good philosophical article, but it would be richer with examples and visuals. "
Peter Laker: "Nice story, good reading, very worthy entry and gratefully received!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2014
Magnus (MM8)
WPF/MVVM: Handling Changes To Dependency Properties In The View
Ed Price: "Nice, thorough topic with good explanations! Could benefit from code formatting. Great article!"
Peter Laker: "A nice primer on a fundamental aspect of xaml. Great layout, images, descriptions, etc."
dev hedgehog
Trick To Use StaticResource With Path
Peter Laker: "A very useful and commonly pondered subject. Thanks for a great contribution!"
Ed Price: "This is a great solution with good code formatting and code comments!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2014
Mr X
How to manage your DC/DNS servers with dynamic IPs in Windows Azure
JM: "This is an excellent article, however you need to change all instances of the term "on-promise" to "on-premise.""
JH: "really detailed, very complete with scripts added"
Richard Mueller: "This might be the best article I have judged. Code formatting could be improved, but otherwise an outstanding contribution."
Mr X
How to assign a private Static IP to a Windows Azure VM
JH: "excellent, concise, good topic"
Richard Mueller: "Excellent documentation of the use of very new tools to manage IP addresses."
JM: "Another excellent article, thanks much for your contributions!"
Mahdi Tehrani
Customize DST time zone configuration across the forest with GPO
JM: "This is an excellent article, however you need to change all instances of the term "Daylight Time Saving" to "Daylight Savings Time.""
JH: "good info, great illustrations and writing"
Richard Mueller: "Original work for an tricky problem. I think the script should run as a Startup script instead of a Logon script on the clients. A "See Also" section and links would help."
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As mentioned above, runners up and their judge feedback were removed from this forum post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
A great big thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to last month's competition.
Read all about THIS month's competition [usually in a stickied post] at the top of this forum, otherwise there is usually a list of forum links for this month's theme/announcement at the bottom of the submission page below:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/23837.technet-guru-contributions-for-april-2014.aspx
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
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System Center Technical Guru - March 2014
Mr X
How to manage VM pinning within a Hyper-V cluster by
combining the use of System Center VMM and Orchestrator
Ed Price: "Mr. X, this is another incredibly thorough article! Fantastic job!"
Idan Vexler
Create Custom XML For OSD In SCCM
Ed Price: "Love the list of requirements! Very thorough in dividing each step!"
Omar Lopez (loplim)
SCOM 2012 - Create Alert / Monitor Based on Windows event ( Administrator login
alert )
Ed Price: "Good use of images. Could use a TOC with sections and more descriptions. Good job!"
Ed Price, Power BI & SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
I just applied update:
Update Rollup 3 for Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 - Virtual Machine Manager (KB2965413)
and (KB2965414) but it failed to install.
After a reboot I could not login to the VMM and the service would not start
An event id 0 was reported with:
Service cannot be started. System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException: Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.
at System.Reflection.RuntimeModule.GetTypes(RuntimeModule module)
at System.Reflection.RuntimeModule.GetTypes()
at System.Reflection.Assembly.GetTypes()
at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Remoting.IndigoSerializableObject.BuildKnownAssemblyTypes(Assembly assembly)
at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Remoting.IndigoSerializableObject.InitializeKnownTypesCache(List`1 assembliesToExamine)
at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Engine.Remoting.IndigoServiceHost.InitializeKnownTypesCache()
at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Engine.VirtualManagerService.TimeStartupMethod(String description, TimedStartupMethod methodToTime)
at Microsoft.VirtualManager.Engine.VirtualManagerService.OnStart(String[] args)
at System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase.ServiceQueuedMainCallback(Object state)
After I removed the update the VMM was able to start, no reboot required.
When I have time I will try to apply both updates again successfully and see if the issue still occurs.
Vista Ultimate Dell XPS M1330FYI. I've had the same issue after I installed Update Rollup 3 (KB2965413), seeing the exact same error on event log. Tried to start the service manually, getting service unable to start error. This is a machine running
with Windows Server 2012 Standard. Solution for me is simple. I just install
KB2965414 (Update Rollup 3 for SCVMM 2012 R2), reboot the server, and the SCVMM service auto start up by itself. -
More Guru Winners for February 2015 in the System Center category and many others!
It's been a busy week that also saw the
TECHNET WIKI SUMMIT 2015
Then we had the results for
February's TechNet Guru competition ALSO posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/03/19/technet-guru-february-2015.aspx
Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however the full version is available on TechNet Wiki in the link above.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - February 2015
Steef-Jan Wiggers
BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting a custom pipeline component with ETW
Mandi Ohlinger: "Always a fan of helping our custom pipeline users. Great addition to this group."
Sandro Pereira: "Images, format, descriptions, code and topic are excellent once again good work Steef-Jan."
Vignesh Sukumar
BizTalk BAM (Business Activity Monitoring)
Sandro Pereira: "Great job on this article! Well explained and nice pictures, however the article format need to be improved and some proofreading is need"
Mandi Ohlinger: "Welcome to the 'I heart BAM' fan club. Nice job on this topic. A MUST read for new-to-BAM users. "
Steef-Jan Wiggers
BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting BAM Activity Tracking with ETW
Sandro Pereira: "Images, format, descriptions, code and topic are excellent once again good work Steef-Jan."
Mandi Ohlinger: "ETW for BAM Activities - LOVE it. Nice use of the Framework. "
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - February 2015
Wim Beck
FIM2010: Filter objects on export
PG: "Simple, targeted but nice article, nice layout. "
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice. Would be perfect with a complete code sample."
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - February 2015
saramgsilva
Azure Mobile Services: How to see the log files in server
JH: "Log files are one of the most important things in a production environment. This article shows hows you can do that for the Azure Mobile Services in a nice and easy way."
Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
Ed Price: "Very useful topic! These are a great set of articles!"
saramgsilva
Azure Mobile Services: How to see the WebConfig file published
Ed Price: "Great detail and fantastic use of images! I love all the in-line links!"
JH: "Sometimes it is hard to tell when working in a multi-environment what configuration was published to the Server. The article shows short and easy how to do that for the Azure Mobile Services."
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - February 2015
Arleta Wanat
Retrieve all site mailboxes in your Office 365 tenant
Durval Ramos: "This article has a well content, images and code that help to understand the solution. It has References and was Translated into more two languages. Good job!"
Richard Mueller: "Good links. A great tutorial."
Andy ONeill
Silverlight: No Need to BringIntoView
Durval Ramos: "A well formatted article is easier and more pleasant to read. This script is useful"
Richard Mueller: "Good demonstration of a new feature."
Chen V
PowerShell : Enable Auto Reply for Shared Mail Box
Durval Ramos: " A good solution originated of TechNet Forum. The script and images make it easy to understand and ensure you get the best interest to reader."
Richard Mueller: "Good documentation of this feature."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - February 2015
Geetanjali Arora
SharePoint Online : Performing Batch Operations using REST API
KB: "Very well explained article on a new and much awaited feature. Although Andrew Connell already explained this topic in several posts, this article still contains added value."
Ed Price: "I love the History section. The formatting is amazing. And the References and See Also sections at the bottom are great icing on the cake. This is an important topic that's done incredibly well!"
Matthew Yarlett
Using the SpellCheck Webservice with the TinyMCE Richtext Editor and
AngularJS in Office 365
KB: "I read this article with growing interest, it contains a lot of added value. Very well and in-depth explanation. "
Ed Price: "Great scenario! Good use of images, code, detail, and References! Could possibly use a greater breakdown and explanation of the code. This article just gets more and more interesting and valuable as you read it! Great job!"
Arleta Wanat
SharePoint Online: Turn on support for multiple content types
in a list or library using Powershell
KB: "Really nice, interesting and detailed article!"
Ed Price: "The Content Types section helps explain this a lot! I also love the downloads at the end. What a fantastic resource!"
Small Basic Technical Guru - February 2015
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Key Input
Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great improvement."
RZ: "Very nice explanation and examples of key input handling"
Ed Price - MSFT
Small Basic: The History of the Logo Turtle
RZ: "Turtle (Logo) was the first programming language for many, including perhaps some of the Small Basic prorammers. Nice article explaining the history."
Michiel Van Hoorn: "A nice background article and hopefull inspiration for those who want to start in robotics"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: TechNet Wiki Article List
Michiel Van Hoorn: "This is great! Perfect as a local cache of the articles. "
RZ: "A good example"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - February 2015
Sylvain PONTOREAU
PowerBI API in .Net
RB: "Great walkthrough. Looking forward for the WP8 version of the app ;)"
PT: "Sylvain, very nice job with this. This is a timely topic about an emerging product that has great potential. This is a very good example of a well-written post on an interesting subject with enough information to be valuable to a
solution developer. I will personally take time to explore the Power BI API and use your examples. "
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - February 2015
Ronen Ariely
SQL Server Books Online
AM: "Thank you for sharing this with us. It is quite informative and let us get familiar with BOL after the change from previous versins."
Ed Price: "Nice! A very helpful introduction to Books Online! It also tells my technical writer friends that their hard work is appreciated! =^)"
Durval Ramos
How to Collect Events and Errors on SQL Server
Ed Price: "Fantastic solution! A great resource that's amazingly well written with formatting, clear parameters, images, References, and a See Also section! And it even comes in Portuguese! Great article!"
AM: "Thank you for sharing this with us. A good source to learn about our SQL Server instances. "
System Center Technical Guru - February 2015
MarkusEliasson
Troubleshoot ID 32008: DPM cannot
protect this SharePoint farm...
Ed Price: "An important topic that's very clear with great formatting and a good use of an image!"
t.c.rich
Managing Priorities of Client Polices and A/V Policies in SCCM
Ed Price: "I love the descriptions, breakdown of sections, and code formatting! Great article!"
Mr X
How to copy SMSTS.log when a Task Sequence fails in SCCM
Ed Price: "A very helpful table and a good contribution to the community! Mr X again thinks of important content gaps to fill!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - February 2015
Saeid Hasani
T-SQL: How the Order of Elements in the ORDER BY Clause Implemented in the Output Result
Durval Ramos: "Very well structured and with examples that clarify how a T-SQL statement can change the data output order."
Richard Mueller: "Good use of Wiki guidelines and great examples."
Ronen Ariely
Free E-Books about SQL and Transact-SQL languages
Richard Mueller: "An excellent collection and a great idea."
Durval Ramos: "A good initiative. Very useful !!!"
Ricardo Lacerda
Declare Cursor (Transact-SQL) versus Window with Over - Running Totals
- Accumulated Earnings
Durval Ramos: "The "Window function" sample was well presented, but it was unclear how the chart was generated."
Richard Mueller: "A new idea that can be very useful. Grammar needs work"
Visual Basic Technical Guru - February 2015
Emiliano Musso
Genetic algorithm to solve 2D Mazes in Visual Basic
MR: "Great article! Love to see an application for AI in a simple game"
Durval Ramos: "This article is well documented with images and your code clarifying important details. It also has References, a very useful video and your project available for download in "MSDN Code" !"
Richard Mueller: "Incredible concept and code. Grammar needs work."
Paul Ishak
MultiHeadedTrackBar Control
Durval Ramos: "Very interesting article, with methods and properties well documented. Your project was available in "MSDN Code" which facilitates the understanding of solution."
Richard Mueller: "Amazing work. Extensive code but with lots of comments. Needs a TOC"
tommytwotrain
Using Trigonometry to draw graphic curves in VB.NET part 2.
MR: "Great continuation. Love the usage of the code for circle text"
Durval Ramos: "The article is interesting, but It's need to work better commenting about assemblies referenced on project and also structure your content into sections."
Richard Mueller: "Good tutorial and example code demonstrating basic concepts. Avoid first person."
Visual C# Technical Guru - February 2015
Magnus (MM8)
C#: Enumerating collections that change
Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has a thorough and to the point explanation of problem and the solution with code samples. Loved it!"
Carmelo La Monica: "Very useful and exhaustive about errors at runtime in these circumstances. Congratulations"
Andy ONeill
c#: Practical Poly
Carmelo La Monica: "Fantastic artcle. Very detailed and exhaustive, congratulations ."
Jaliya Udagedara: "Definitely worth reading this. Explains somewhat advance topic along with a fundamental concept of programming. "
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - February 2015
Durval Ramos
Wiki: Microsoft Short URLs Personalized by SXP
PG: "Nice idea, lots of potential to grow, really needs some more community attention."
Richard Mueller: "An excellent idea. Good use of Wiki guidelines."
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - February 2015
Carmelo La Monica
Windows Phone 8: control Nokia Maps (Part 3)
JH: "Part 3 of the series how to work with the Nokia maps control. As the previous articles this one contains a lot of code snippets and some pictures. Good work!"
Ed Price: "A great topic, a fantastic breakdown of sections with clear descriptions, and a nice mix of code formatting and helpful images! Another stellar article from Carmelo! Great job including the link back at the end to the portal
article!"
Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - February 2015
Richard Mueller
Document Your Active Directory Organization
Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article, congratulations!!! Very detailed!"
Chen V: "Excellent Article - I liked return to top as well."
Ed Price: "Wow! It's like a professional whitepaper! It's a valuable topic that's done with intricate detail! I love the images, diagrams, code blocks, and it ends very well with more resources and Wiki articles! The article just keeps
digging deeper and deeper! Awesome job on this!"
DexterPOSH
PowerShell + REST API : Invoke-RestMethod Gotcha
Chen V: "Good Article. TOC might have made this more rich! "
Ed Price: "This is a good topic with some great content. It could benefit from sections and a TOC, as well as a References and See Also sections at the end. The inline links are helpful. Could "
DexterPOSH
PowerShell Trick : Search & highlight text in MS Word
Ed Price: "This is a great solution, with some helpful Q&A in the comments!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - February 2015
Andy ONeill
Lookless Controls
KJ: "WPF can definitely be confusing when devs first encounter it. Like the way you break it down."
Ed Price: "Wow! Fantastic explanations that are very clear and deep! The images and code bring it to life!"
Andy ONeill
Only One Parent
KJ: "Same iwith this one, good 101 intro"
Ed Price: "Another great tip! I love the detail here as well! Those snippets help a lot!"
Andy ONeill
Bind to Current Item of Collection
KJ: "Feel like this topic has a lot of coverage out there, but it can't hurt to hammer on databinding yet one more time :) "
Ed Price: "Fantastic topic with great execution! Although these could benefit from References and See Also wiki sections at the end, the Inline links help a lot!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - February 2015
Mr X
Ping for Beginners
Mark Parris: "A good introduction with additional content."
JM: "Great article idea and an excellent article that will be useful to many, thanks for your contribution."
Philippe Levesque: "Good article that show a usefull utility for basic troubleshooting"
Richard Mueller
Active Directory: Get-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy Default and Extended Properties
Mark Parris: "An Interesting insight on FGPP and their extended properties."
JM: "This is a good piece of detailed information about this PowerShell cmdlet, thanks for sharing."
Philippe Levesque: "Great article ! Illustrating some cmdlet's output when a user got assigned policy versus a user with the default domain policy could be a good idea."
Richard Mueller
Active Directory: Get-ADServiceAccount Default and Extended Properties
Mark Parris: "A useful nugget of information."
JM: "More very useful information about an AD cmdlet, thanks!"
Philippe Levesque: "Good article !"
As mentioned above, runners up and comments were removed from this post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit.
You will find the complete post, comments and feedback on the
main announcement post.
Please join the discussion, add a comment, or suggest future categories.
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can write a more useful, clever, or better produced wiki article than the winners above,
THERE'S STILL TIME! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
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Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
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Have you got what it takes o become this month's
TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!Congrats to Markus, t.c.rich, and Mr X!
System Center Technical Guru - February 2015
MarkusEliasson
Troubleshoot ID 32008: DPM cannot
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Ed Price: "An important topic that's very clear with great formatting and a good use of an image!"
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MS System Center Operations Manager 2010 Download required for Upgrade from SCOM 2007 R2 (Select)
We need the download of SCOM 2012 without Service Pack1.
Upgrade from SCOM 2007 R2 (select license) fails while upgrade check with error: Logs shows "At least one of the following applications is installed on this computer. Due
to incompatibility with System Center 2012 - Operations Manager, these applications must be uninstalled."
Upgrade was started from dos elevated prompt with modified parameters like this:
setup.exe /silent /upgrade
/AcceptEndUserLicenseAgreement:1
/UseLocalSystemDASAccount
/DataReaderUser:<domain\user>
/DataReaderPassword:<password>
Research in internet and we found another person with same issue, which reports that direct upgrade from SCOM 2007 R2 to SCOM 2012 SP1 is not possible but if upgrade is done over
SCOM 2012 to SCOM 2012 SP1 it succeeds.
Unfortunately, we don't find any downloads for the first release of System Center 2012 e.g. Operations Manager.
Everything shows Service Pack 1 or the newer R2.
Who can help?Our “Recommended” rolling upgrade path looks like the following:
SCOM 2007R2 CU4+ > SCOM 2012 RTM UR2+ >
SCOM 2012 SP1 UR4+ > SCOM 2012 R2
Also you can refer below link
http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2014/01/20/do-i-need-a-specific-cumulative-update-release-ur-in-order-to-upgrade-to-scom-2012-or-2012-sp1-or-2012-r2.aspx
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