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Build your own book of TechNet articles

The build-a-book process is a new TechNet feature and is currently in a beta release. It’s now available to you in the Microsoft TechNet Library. We encourage you to try it out. Here’s some instructions:

Get ready. You’ll need:

  • A recent browser. Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 9 work, as do other recent versions of other browsers. If you use IE 8 or IE 9, make sure they’re running in regular browser mode (not in compatibility view mode).
  • A Live ID for signing into TechNet.

Make sure you’re using the Lightweight view in TechNet. (If you’re currently in Classic or ScriptFree view, click Lightweight at the top of the TechNet page.) When you’re in Lightweight view, the upper right corner of the page should look like this.

  1. Sign in at http://technet.microsoft.com using a Windows Live ID.
  2. Click the drop-down arrow next to the printer icon on the upper right corner of the page and then click Print Multiple Topics.

    A Help page will open. That page provides Help, but it also serves as your start page.
  3. Read the How does it work? overview on the Help page and then click Start. The Print Multiple Topics (Beta) toolbar will appear at the top of your window.
  4. Browse through the left pane of the TechNet library, and pick topics or folders for your collection. Each time you select a topic or a folder, right-click it to add it to your collection.
    • If you right-click a folder, you can choose Add this topic or Add this set of topics. The number in parentheses indicates the number of topics in the set.
    • If a selected folder contains more than 100 topics, you’ll get a notice that says "(100+) Too Many Topics." In that case, you’ll have to select topics or sub-folders one by one within that folder.
    • If you want to select more than 100 topics, you’ll need to create a second book.
  5. When you’re finished, click Collection on the Print Multiple Topics toolbar (top of page). The Manage Collection page will open and the list of folders and articles that you’ve selected will be displayed.
  6. Organize your topics into the sequence you want and into chapter groupings that you like by using drag and drop. You can rename chapters, add more chapters, and delete chapters or topics on this page.
  7. Under Advanced Options, in the Export Your Collection area, select the file format you want (XHTML or PDF).
    Note: You must be signed in with your Live ID before you can export your collection.
  8. Click Generate.
    • While your book is generating, a Generating progress bar will appear at the top of the page.
    • When the book build is done, you’ll see Finished at the top of the page.
  9. Save your book either by right-clicking the Download your Document link, or by downloading the document and then saving it.

To start a brand new collection, click Delete on the Manage Collection page. Otherwise, the articles you selected for the current book build will remain in the collection.

Source: Build your own book of Technet articles

System Center Operations Manager 2012 Beta is released

Overview

System Center Operations Manager 2012 provides the monitoring component of cloud and datacenter solutions, to help you manage your datacenter and cloud environments by:

  • Delivering flexible and cost effective enterprise-class monitoring and diagnostics while reducing the total cost of ownership by leveraging commodity hardware, with standard configurations to monitor heterogeneous environments.
  • Helping to ensure the availability of business-critical applications and services through market-leading .NET application performance monitoring and diagnostics plus JEE application health monitoring.
  • Providing a comprehensive view of datacenters, and private and public clouds.

Feature Summary

  • Predictable performance and availability of critical applications
    • End-to-end views of application health and topology
    • Establishment of application service-level delivery (SLAs)
    • Precise identification of application errors
  • Flexible and cost-effective infrastructure monitoring
    • In-depth monitoring, diagnostics, and reporting for heterogeneous environments
    • Integrated network device monitoring and alerts
    • Simplified management infrastructure
  • Comprehensive monitoring for your datacenter and cloud—on your terms
    • Integrated physical, virtual, and cloud management
    • Common console across datacenter and clouds
    • Rich reporting

System requirements

Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2, Windows Vista Service Pack 2, Windows XP Service Pack 3

  • Other Software:
    • Any server role
      • .NET 3.5 or 4.0
    • Management Server, Reporting Server, Web Console, Gateway Server
      • Windows Server 2008 R2 (64 bit)
    • Operational & Data Warehouse
      • SQL 2008 SP1 and above
      • SQL Collation – SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
    • Agent
      • Windows Server 2003 SP2 and above
      • Windows Server 2008 SP2 and above
      • Windows Server 2008 R2
      • Windows XP Professional SP3 and above
      • Windows Vista SP2 and above
      • Windows 7

    Supported Hardware Configuration:

    • Operations Manager Operations database: 4 GB of RAM or higher, 50 GB of available hard disk space
    • Management server: 2 GB of RAM or more, 20 GB of available hard disk space
    • Operations console: 2 GB of RAM or more, 20 GB of available hard disk space
    • Reporting data warehouse: 4 GB of RAM or more, 100 GB of available hard disk space
    • Reporting server: 2 GB or more, 20 GB of available hard disk space
    • gateway server: 2 GB of RAM or more, 20 GB of available hard disk space
    • Web console server: 2 GB of RAM or more, 20 GB of available hard disk space
    • Audit database: 4 GB of RAM or more, 100 GB of available hard disk space
    • Management server with audit collector: 2 GB of RAM or more, 50 GB of available hard disk space
    • Management server with Agentless Exception Monitoring file share: 2 GB of RAM or more, 30 GB of available hard disk space
    • Agent: Please refer to the recommended hardware requirement required by the operating system.

Download the beta HERE

DPM 2010 System State of Bare Metal Recovery Fail on Windows 2008 R2 or Windows 7

When you check the event log of de server you see a event 517.

Name: Microsoft-Windows-Backup
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Backup
Date: date
Event ID: 5
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords:
User: username
Computer: computer name
Description:
The backup operation that started at time has failed with following error code ‘2155347997’ (The operation ended before completion.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved

evenit517 

This a now Bug check KB2182466 you can download the hotfix here KBHotfix

DPM 2010 Data Protection Manager Error ID 316 on DPM Server or DPMRA Event id 85 on Workgroup Client

DPM 2010 Data Protection Manager Error ID: 316

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or DPMRA Event id 85

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Solution:

On the protected server running the DPM agent

SetDpmServer.exe -dpmServerName YOURDPMSERVER -isNonDomainServer –updatePassword

On the DPM server

Update-NonDomainServerInfo –PSName YOURPROTECTEDDPMSERVER –dpmServerName YOURDPMSERVER

MDT 2010 WSUS deployment Error 0x80244019

I added so as always WSUSServer=http://ward-bh01 to customsettings.ini

When the deploying the image I get de following error

The Error

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Solution:

Ad the Port number to de WSUSServer address in customsettings.ini. In my case it was 8530. Because the WSUS site was running on that port number see the pictures

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WSUSServer=http://ward-bh01:8530

Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1

    Microsoft has released Update Rollup 4 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

    Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 resolves the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) articles:

    • 2537099 "80040154" error message when you try to configure external Client Access namespaces on an Exchange Server 2010 server

    • 2536700 Outlook stops responding when you try to copy a folder to its subfolder by using Outlook in online mode in an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 environment

    • 2536517 The Microsoft Exchange RPC Client Access service crashes intermittently on an Exchange Server 2010 server

    • 2536494 It takes a long time to return results when you perform an Advanced Find search on a mailbox by using Outlook in online mode in an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 environment

    • 2535648 The EMC takes a long time to open in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

    • 2535130 Performance in Outlook or in OWA decreases when you use IMAP4 to access the contacts folder in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

    • 2535105 There is no option to disable the Availability service in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

    • 2533543 Event ID 2153 is logged on each database availability group member in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

    • 2533538 You cannot look up the free/busy information of a user who is located on an Exchange Server 2010 organization from another Exchange Server 2010 organization

    • 2533451 A RBAC role assignee can unexpectedly run the "Update-FileDistributionService" command on an Exchange Server 2010 server that is outside the role assignment scope

    • 2519359 "Changes to the rule cannot be saved." error message when you try to create a reply rule by using Outlook in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

    • 2518850 You cannot receive email messages on a mobile phone by using ActiveSync in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

    • 2517088 Public folder conflict resolution does not work as usual in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

    • 2515259 "The items could not be copied." error message when you run the Get-MailboxSearch cmdlet in an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 environment

    • 2514709 Event ID 1001 after you successfully the install Exchange Server 2010 Unified Messaging server role

    • 2514574 The Exchange RPC Client Access service crashes in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

    • 2513723 The "New-MailboxImportRequest" cmdlet does not import all messages in a .pst file in the ANSI format in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

    • 2512023 "GetUserOofSettings", "SetUserOofSettings" and "GetUserAvailability" operations do not support Exchange Impersonation on the Exchange Server 2010 SP1 schema

    • 2511897 You cannot send an email message to a mailbox for a brief period when you move the mailbox by using online move in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

    • 2507463 You cannot move a mailbox that contains a corrupted Search Folder in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

    • 2506820 The free/busy information does not display of a user whose mailbox is located on an Exchange Server 2003 server

    • 2506049 The hierarchy of a new public folder database on an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 server is not replicated

    • 2505968 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2505968/ ) The EdgeTransport.exe process crashes when you apply a rule that contains a bad email address in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

    • 2504453 You cannot retrieve statistical information about a public folder by using the "Get-PublicFolderStatistics" cmdlet in an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 environment

    • 2503337 Comments of your meeting response message is missing when you decline a meeting request in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

    • 2501070 A RBAC role assignee can stop queue processing on an Exchange Server 2010 Hub Transport server or an Exchange Server 2010 Edge Transport server that is outside the role assignment scope

    • 2500903 A space is missing in the subject line of a "Tentative" meeting response in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

    • 2500648 "There are no items to show in this view." error message when you try to view a folder in Outlook in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

    • 2495010 The EdgeTransport.exe process consumes 100% CPU usage on an Exchange Server 2010 Edge Transport server or an Exchange Server 2007 Edge Transport server

    • 2493393 You cannot use ECP to perform a wipe on a mobile phone in an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 environment

    • 2492068 The item cannot be saved to this folder." error message when try to post an item to a mail-disabled public folder in an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 environment

    • 2491354 You cannot view the free/busy information of users in a mixed Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2010 environment

    • 2490134 A deferred delivery email message is not delivered by using Outlook 2007 in online mode in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

    • 2489964 An update enables range 0x-0x1F characters in the display name of an Exchange Server 2010 user account

    • 2489938 The "Connect-ExchangeServer" function does not change the target Exchange server in Exchange Server 2010

    • 2489130 A RBAC role assignee can unexpectedly change mailbox properties that are outside the management role group scope in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

    • 2488643 Outlook downloads duplicated POP3 email messages in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

    • 2479188 The iCal parts of an email message contain invalid entries when they are sent from an Exchange Server 2003 mailbox to an Exchange Server 2010 mailbox

    • 2477273 The DomainController parameter does not work when you use the "MoveMailbox.ps1" script to move mailboxes in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

    • 2471964 A NDR is sent to the sender when you move an email message to a personal folder file in an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 or a later version environment

    • 2467619 A user who manages a distribution group cannot remove another user whose mailbox is disabled in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

    • 2465292 "MAPI_E_FAILONEPROVIDER (0x8004011D)" error message when you access an Exchange Server 2010 mailbox by using a MAPI application

    • 2446908 ESE event descriptions are missing in Event Viewer when the Eseutil utility is called on an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 server

    • 2394554 An email message is not delivered if it contains unsupported encoded characters in the subject line in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

    • 2491951 You cannot install Exchange Server 2010 SP1 if the NetBIOS domain name of the domain controller contains an ampersand (&) character

    • 2507066 Administrator audit logging is disabled unexpectedly during an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 installation

      Here you can download Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (KB2509910) 

    The “Exchange Server 2010 Technical Video Series” on TechCenter

    The Microsoft Exchange team has produced a new portfolio of videos designed to give customers a fundamental technical education on Exchange Server 2010.

    The objective of the video series is to provide an introductory curriculum for IT professionals to learn more about the benefits of Exchange Server 2010. While TechNet provides great technical documentation at a more granular level, this video series should help bridge the gap for those who are new to Exchange 2010 and still trying to learn about the technical fundamentals of the product.

    Each video runs 20-30 minutes long and includes an overview of the workload as well as a technical demonstration of 3-4 core scenarios related to that workload. The “Exchange Server 2010 Technical Video Series” is hosted by Ann Vu and presented by subject matter experts from the Microsoft Exchange team.

    The Video’s can you find HERE.

    Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer

    The Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer reads an Active Directory configuration using LDAP, and then automatically generates a Visio diagram of your Active Directory and /or your Exchange Server topology. The diagramms may include domains, sites, servers, organizational units, DFS-R, administrative groups, routing groups and connectors and can be changed manually in Visio if needed.

    Some Schreenshots:

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    Download Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer HERE

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