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Domain Controller Metadata Cleanup

Domain Controller Metadata Cleanup after Domain Controller Failure

Metadata Cleanup - After the failure of a Domain Controller, and the subsequent rebuild of a new domain controller, you may be left with some orphaned entries in Active Directory. The metadata cleanup removes any information about the dead Domain Controller. It also removes FRS and DFSR entries, and will also seize any operation master roles as well if they were on the dead domain controller.

Prerequisites:

Domain Admin Account is needed to perform these actions.
This only worked for me on a Domain Controller (documentation that I have read has said that it can be run via a workstation using RSAT (ADUC) but this didn't work for me it resulted in the below error.
Make sure that accidental deletion is turned off for the object.
I have done these steps on Windows Server 2012 environment at a 2012 Functional Level.

To start, go to an active Domain Controller and then open up Active Directory Users and Computers. Navigate to the Domain Controllers folder and right click on the dead domain controller and then select delete.

Select Yes

Tick the checkbox confirming that the Domain Controller is actually dead. Then select Delete.

Make sure that you have another Global Catalog server in your domain and then select Yes.

Once this is done, wait for replication to occur within your Active Directory so that the changes propagate out to the other DC's and the metadata cleanup is complete.

You can then verify everything has gone well with the metadata cleanup by running the following checks at an elevated command line on an Active Domain Controller.

Dcdiag /a /c /v /f:C:\logfile.log

Repadmin /showrepl * /verbose /all /intersite > C:\repllog.log

For further reading, check out the links below.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc816907(WS.10).aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc736378(v=ws.10).aspx

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216498

Hyper-V Error – An Authentication error.

By craig | May 1, 2013 - 10:02 am | Hyper-V

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Hyper-V Error – An Authentication error has occurred. The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted.

Today I was trying to connect to a Hyper-V Virtual Machine when I started to get this error on all of the VM's on that particular host. I was connecting to the Hyper-V host via a Windows 8 Workstation via the Hyper-V Manager.

At first I thought it was an issue with my account, but it wasn't. After hunting around for ages and running out of ideas, I stumbled across the obvious. The Hyper-V host didn't have the correct DNS servers set.

So I changed the DNS Servers to the correct ones that were being used in my Domain and bob was my uncle!

Hope this helps!

App-V - Installing the App-V 5.0 Sequencer

By craig | April 28, 2013 - 6:27 am | App-V, SCCM

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Before you get started on installing the App-V 5.0 Sequencer, there are a few things that you may have to do to get your environment ready.

Create a Windows 7 Virtual Desktop machine with 2 partitions eg. C:\ and Q:\. This will be used to create the App-V packages. It is recommended that the Sequencing Workstation be on the OS that is the lowest that is used in your environment. (In this case, in my test environment, I don't really have anything older than Windows 7, Windows 2008 R2.)
Download the Desktop Optimization Pack 2012.
Make sure .NET 4.0 is installed. (If Windows 7)
Powershell 3.0 (If Windows 7)
Make sure KB2533623 is installed. (If Windows 7)

Guide - Step by Step

	On the Windows 7 workstation, mount the Desktop Optimization Pack DVD, and then select Application Virtualization for Desktops.
	Select the App-V 5.0 Sequencer.
	Click Yes.
	Make sure .NET 4.0 is installed.
	Make sure Powershell 3.0 is installed.
	Make sure KB2533623 is installed.
	Click Install.
	Click Next.
	Join the CEIP.
	Click Close.

More info can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj713463.aspx

Hyper-V Virtual Machine Error 0x80070569

By wolffhaven | April 28, 2013 - 4:58 am | Hyper-V

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If you find you are getting a similar error 0x80070569 on Hyper-V 2012, you might be experiencing something similar to this.

So I jumped on to one of my Hyper-V hosts the other day to bang out a fresh Virtual Machine. I clicked on Create New Virtual Machine and BAM!, I get this error.

Try restarting the Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management Service.

I wasn't sure if I could restart this service while I had Virtual Machines running, but since it was on my home lab environment, I thought I'd give it a shot. The service restarted with no issues on any of my virtual machines. What's more, when I tried to create a virtual machine, it worked, no error. I'm not sure why this happens or why restarting the service fixes it as it seems by the error to be a permissions issue but as a work around it seems to do the trick.

Uninstalling & Reinstalling SQL Server Reporting Services 2012

By craig | April 27, 2013 - 11:14 am | SCCM, SQL, SSRS

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I had some issues with uninstalling and reinstalling Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services in my SCCM Lab environment. It turns out there are a few steps not mentioned in the microsoft documentation that you need to do in order to do a fresh install, without carrying any configuration settings over from the previous install. Here are a few dot points on what I had to do.

Remove the Reporting Services Point from SCCM
Appwiz.cpl > Microsoft SQL Server 2012 > Remove > Remove Reporting Services
Manually delete the ReportServer Database and the Temp Report Server Database
Delete the C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS11.MSSQLSERVER) folder.
Reboot
Reinstall SQL Server Reporting Services and select install only during the installation.
Open up Reporting Services Configuration Manager and configure your accounts.
Make sure that the Websites are set in Reporting Services Configuration Manager or you won’t see a Sql Instance when you try to create the Reporting Services point in SCCM. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/4479e73e-8a19-4c7e-9418-b36770656b9b/sccm-2012-reporting-point-server-instance-blank

Report Builder 3.0 Fails to Install

By wolffhaven | April 26, 2013 - 11:20 pm | SCCM, SQL

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If you find that the Report Builder 3.0 Click Once Application fails to install, you might have the same issue I have had in this blog post.

I tried to create a Report in SCCM and when the ClickOnce Application for Report Builder 3.0 tried to install it got this error.

WOW, soo helpful, thanks Microsoft! Click on Details, and you will get some more helpful information. Scan the log file for something similar to below.

ERROR SUMMARY

Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log.

* Activation of http://<server>/ReportServer/ReportBuilder/ReportBuilder_3_0_0_0.application?http://<server>/ReportServer/ConfigMgr_MTL/Hardware%20-%20Memory/Memory resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected:

+ Unable to install this application because an application with the same identity is already installed. To install this application, either modify the manifest version for this application or uninstall the preexisting application.

This is most likely generated because you have installed Report Builder 3.0 once before. To fix this all you need to do is to clear the Click Once Application cache. Open up a command prompt and then type the following "rundll dfshim CleanOnlineAppCache" **NOTE** this command is case sensitive, I found that I had to type it exactly.

Now try again to Create or Edit a report.

Hope this helps!

Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit – Stuck at 0% Complete

By craig | February 16, 2013 - 5:06 am | SCCM

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Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit - Stuck at 0% Complete?

If you are installing the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit and find yourself stuck at Overall Progress: 0% complete. You may start to think that the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit installer isn't working and has crashed.

To make sure things are still ticking along under the covers, you can navigate to %temp%/adk to look at the installation log file to make sure that things are still progressing behind the scenes. The installation can be quite large up to 5.1 GB, so if you are on a slow internet connection, you may be stuck at 0% complete for up to 15 mins or more before you see any change in the progress bar. In the log file, look for the time that you kicked off the installation and also the time of the last log entry. You should be able to see some activity, namely 'acquiring package'. This will mean that it's downloading the package in the background.

My installation took about 15 mins before I started to see any movement. My internet connection was saturated at that time, so that is why it took so long for me.

Where can I get it?

You can download the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit installation file here.

You can also find more information about installing the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit at Microsoft's site, here.

Installing the Hyper-V Feature via Powershell on Windows Server 2012

By craig | February 11, 2013 - 8:49 am | Powershell

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	Open up a Powershell Console as an Administrator. We can use the Get-WindowsFeature cmdlet to find what Hyper-V features are available for installation. PS>Get-WindowsFeature –Name hyper-v* This will show the Hyper-V features that we can install.
	Once we know what we would like to install. We can use the Install-WindowsFeature cmdlet to install the feature. We can use the IncludeSubFeature and IncludeManagementTools parameters to install all subfeatures and management tools at the same time. The –Restart parameter will make the machine reboot once it has finished installing. PS>Install-WindowsFeature –Name Hyper-V –IncludeSubFeature –IncludeManagementTools –Restart
	The Feature will then install.
	After a reboot, you should be able to see the Hyper-V Manager in your Start Page.

Australian TV Logos for XBMC FRODO PVR

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By craig | February 10, 2013 - 10:10 am | XBMC

Australian TV Logos for XBMC PVR

Here is the collection of Australian TV Station Logo's for use with XBMC PVR. With Frodo just being released and having the PVR functionality built in, this set of .png files will make channel surfing feel just as it should! I've been hunting around for them for ages and I thought I'd make a collection for people to grab all in one place. See below the images for a zip file that contains all of the images. Hope this helps!

: Nine Digital TV Logo

: Channel 7 Tv Logo

: 7mate Tv Logo

: 7TWO Tv Logo

: 31 Digital Tv Logo

: ABC News 24 Tv Logo

: ABC1 Tv Logo

: ABC2 / ABC4 TV Logo

: ABC3 TV Logo

: ELEVEN TV Logo

: EXTRA TV Logo

: GEM TV Logo

: GO! TV Logo

: ONE TV Logo

: NITV TV Logo

: SBS HD TV Logo

: SBS One TV Logo

: SBS Two TV Logo

: Ten Tv Logo

: TV4ME TV Logo

: TVSN TV Logo

Here is a zip file with all of the Australian TV logos.

Using Powershell to search a log file for an error and then email you

By craig | February 9, 2013 - 3:30 pm | Powershell

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This little script I used when I was having a problem with my TV Tuner card on my home server. Every now and then it would stop working and it was a real pain to come home and find that the shows I had set to tape hadn't recorded because the card stopped working. So this script would email me to let me know that it was time to perform some percussive maintenance on my usb tv tuner card again.

#Set the log file that you would like to check.
$log = get-content -Path "\\<server>\For The Record\Logs\ForTheRecord.RecorderTuner.log"
#Set the current date in the desired format.
$currdate = get-date -uformat %Y-%m-%d
# Set a variable to use as the script loops through each line of the log file.
$cantconnect = $true
 ForEach ($line in $log){
    if($cantconnect ){
        #This Variable splits the line of the log by the space.
		$currline = $line -split ' ' , 2
        #This variable takes the first part of the $currline array.
		$linedate = $currline[ 0]
        #Set the erroractionpreference to silently continue so that the script will keep going through even if it errors. (Not best practice, I know...:()
		$erroractionpreference = "SilentlyContinue"
        #This next line checks for a match only for todays date. (I had this running as a schedule task every day.)
		$match = "$currdate " -match "$linedate "
        if($match ){
            #If it finds a match of the date, it will then search for this string via a switch statement. If it finds a match it breaks out of the loop and sets the $
            #$cantconnect variable to $false.
            switch -wildcard ($currline[ 1]){"*Card AF9015 BDA Filter returned Card error : Fatal*" {$cantconnect = $false; break}
            default {$cantconnect = $true}
            }
        }
    }      
    else {
        #If it finds an error it will then email.
	    $EmailFrom = "<email address="" from="">"
	    $EmailTo = "<email address="" to="">"
	    $Subject = "ForTheRecord Down"
	    $Body = "Fix tuner card. Something wrong with one of the cards. Investigate."
	    $SMTPServer = "<smtp server="">"
	    $SMTPClient = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($SmtpServer , 25)
	    $SMTPClient.Send( $EmailFrom, $EmailTo, $Subject, $Body)
        break
    }
}

#Set the log file that you would like to check.

$log = get-content -Path "\\<server>\For The Record\Logs\ForTheRecord.RecorderTuner.log"

#Set the current date in the desired format.

$currdate = get-date -uformat %Y-%m-%d

# Set a variable to use as the script loops through each line of the log file.

$cantconnect = $true

ForEach ($line in $log){

if($cantconnect ){

#This Variable splits the line of the log by the space.

$currline = $line -split ' ' , 2

#This variable takes the first part of the $currline array.

$linedate = $currline[ 0]

#Set the erroractionpreference to silently continue so that the script will keep going through even if it errors. (Not best practice, I know...:()

$erroractionpreference = "SilentlyContinue"

#This next line checks for a match only for todays date. (I had this running as a schedule task every day.)

$match = "$currdate " -match "$linedate "

if($match ){

#If it finds a match of the date, it will then search for this string via a switch statement. If it finds a match it breaks out of the loop and sets the $

#$cantconnect variable to $false.

switch -wildcard ($currline[ 1]){"*Card AF9015 BDA Filter returned Card error : Fatal*" {$cantconnect = $false; break}

default {$cantconnect = $true}

}

else {

#If it finds an error it will then email.

$EmailFrom = "<email address="" from="">"

$EmailTo = "<email address="" to="">"

$Subject = "ForTheRecord Down"

$Body = "Fix tuner card. Something wrong with one of the cards. Investigate."

$SMTPServer = "<smtp server="">"

$SMTPClient = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($SmtpServer , 25)

$SMTPClient.Send( $EmailFrom, $EmailTo, $Subject, $Body)

break

}

Domain Controller Metadata Cleanup

Domain Controller Metadata Cleanup after Domain Controller Failure

Hyper-V Error – An Authentication error.

Hyper-V Error – An Authentication error has occurred. The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted.

App-V - Installing the App-V 5.0 Sequencer

Guide - Step by Step

Hyper-V Virtual Machine Error 0x80070569

Uninstalling & Reinstalling SQL Server Reporting Services 2012

Report Builder 3.0 Fails to Install

Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit – Stuck at 0% Complete

Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit - Stuck at 0% Complete?

Where can I get it?

Installing the Hyper-V Feature via Powershell on Windows Server 2012

Australian TV Logos for XBMC FRODO PVR

Gallery

Australian TV Logos for XBMC PVR

Using Powershell to search a log file for an error and then email you

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