So my System Center (sic) alert logs are constantly being bombarded with
In PerfDataSource, could not find counter Process, Working Set, IEXPLORE* in Snapshot. Unable to submit Performance value. Module will not be unloaded..........
It appears it’s a well known fault with an equally well known workaround, a few clicks of the mouse and it’s all quiet on the SCE front!
Data Protection Manager (DPM) relies heavily on the Virtual Disk Service (vds.exe).
As your backup sizes grow and uptime increases it’s not unusal for VDS to consume all free memory, adding more RAM to the DPM server just delays the inevitable.
With a bit of hunting I found the following symptoms and related hotfix 958387.
A memory leak occurs in the Virtual Disk Service when an application uses the Virtual Disk Service to enumerate disk resources. In this scenario, you notice that the memory consumption of the Virtual Disk Service (Vds.exe) increases continually.
So far so good… here’s hoping the issue is long gone
The process of configuring a SSL certificate has changed between IIS6 and IIS7.
Here is how to create a new AD Domain based SSL certificate and apply it to your virtual site.
Creating the Certificate
Open IIS Manager and select the instance.
Select Server Certificates
I’ve been going through a few headaches with deploying System Centre alongside ISA 2004.
All of my managed servers/computers were coming up with the following status
MODEL: unkown
Last Contacted: not contacted
Deployments and Inventory: error
After a bit of poking around I worked out it’s related to the windows update service.
One one of the workstations I inspected the WindowsUpdate.log file and came across this entry
Server URL = https://systemcentre.foo.local:8531/SimpleAuthWebService/SimpleAuth.asmx
WARNING: GetAuthorizationCookie failure, error = 0×80244021, soap client error = 10, soap error code = 0, HTTP status code = 502
Browsing from the workstation to https://systemcentre.foo.local:8531/SimpleAuthWebService/SimpleAuth.asmx gave me the error
Error Code: 502 Proxy Error. The specified Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) port is not allowed. ISA Server is not configured to allow SSL requests from this port. Most Web browsers use port 443 for SSL requests. (12204)
To get around this, I installed ISA Tunnel Port Editor and added port 8531 to the SSL tunnel range.
I recently used GParted to resize a server 2008 partition, all went swimmingly until I rebooted and was prompted with a Windows Boot Manager error.
File: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Status: 0xc0000225
Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt.
The Fix
1. Boot the windows server 2008 cd
2. Select your language
3. Select repair your computer
4. c:\
cd \windows\system32
bcdedit /set {bootmgr} device boot
bcdedit /set {default} device boot
bcdedit /set {default} osdevice boot
5. Restart
I have since learned that you can just use shrink volume from within the storage manager.
If you’re planning on running 2003 and 2008 domain controlers in the same domain you need to update the AD schema on all of your 2003 DC.
To do this pop/map the CD and execute the following
d:\sources\adprep\adprep.exe /forestprep
d:\sources\adprep\adprep.exe /domainprep /gpprep
d:\sources\adprep\adprep.exe /domainprep /rodcPREP