Hyper V role fails installation, requires multiple reboots.

Issue description:

Hyper V role installation fails, during start up and message shows up which states the role installation failed, and a rollback is occurring. 

Cause:

For me this was being caused by the system reserved partition (SRP). The SRP was in an offline state. 

Resolution:

I used DISKPART to bring the volume online, and to assign it a drive letter to hold it online. Also I turned Automount back on, it was previously disabled because it was causing the Dell DRAC firmware upgrade to fail. The role addition succeeded this time.

Use IPMI tool to change HP ILO 100 password from Xen Server

List all the users
# ipmitool user list

output:

ID  Name             Enabled Callin  Link Auth  IPMI Msg   Channel Priv Limit

1                    true    true    false      true       ADMINISTRATOR

2   Operator         true    true    false      true       ADMINISTRATOR

3   admin            true    true    false      true       ADMINISTRATOR

4   OEM              true    true    false      true       ADMINISTRATOR

5   Operator         true    true    false      true       ADMINISTRATOR

6   admin            true    true    false      true       ADMINISTRATOR

7   OEM              true    true    false      true       ADMINISTRATOR

8   Operator         true    true    false      true       ADMINISTRATOR

Change the password for user 3

# ipmitool user set password 3 <PUT THE PASSWORD FOR USER#3 HERE>

Enable user 3.

# ipmitool user enable 3

Set user 3 to administrator rights

# ipmitool user priv 3 4

Now log in from the web console.

Backup - AOFO: Initialization failure on: "System?State". Advanced Open File Option used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). V-79-10000-11226 - VSS Snapshot error

Backup - AOFO: Initialization failure on: "System?State". Advanced Open File Option used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).

V-79-10000-11226 - VSS Snapshot error. The Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) snapshot provider selected returned: "Unexpected provider error". Ensure that all provider services are enabled and can be started. Check the Windows Event Viewer for details.


Had this error start occurring with BUE 2010 R3 on my backup execution server itself. When I ran "vssadmin list writers" several writers were in an error & timed out [7] state. Issue was caused by there not being enough free space on the system volume to include a VSS snapshot of itself because the feature set of this server has grown so large including WDS, and iSCSI target.

Solution was to move the storage location for snapshots for the system volume to the C: drive.

Trapped Outlook Clients - post Exchange Migration

When Migrating Exchange, normally the Outlook client software needs to re-target itself to the new Exchange server. Outlook will check in with the old Exchange server and will learn that it needs to connect to a different Exchange. If the old Exchange server is turned off, the service are stopped, or it has been uninstalled, you will be left with a Outlook client that will not open.

Normally just turning on the old Exchange server, then starting the Outlook client will be sufficient to remedy this, however if the old Exchange server has been uninstalled then the Outlook client will be trapped. This is especially unnerving on a terminal server, where mlcfg.cpl will probably be restricted from executing.

A work around that I have found is to start outlook.exe with the command line switch, /profiles. This will launch a dialog window where you can create a new mail profile, configure it for the new Exchange server and set it to be the default profile.

How to Migrate Outlook 2007 Categories

Recreating Outlook 2007 Categories can be a daunting task, having to recreate the label, color, and hot key codes.

I used Category Manager 3.0 located here: http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?lang=en in order to migrate the categories from one user to another user to create a consistent category scheme.

Steps for source computer.

1.  Close Outlook.
2. Install the software
3. Open Outlook.
4. Start the Category manager.
5. Export the categories to TXT.
6. Close Outlook.
7. Uninstall the software, it is a 30 day trial.

Steps for destination computer.

1. Close Outlook.
2. Install the software.
3. Open Outlook.
4. Start the Category Manager.
5. Examine the txt file, and break the categories into groups of 8. The trial version will only import 8 Categories at a time.
6. Delete existing categories.
7. Import Category TXT files.
8. Save changes.
9. Close the Category Manager, Close Outlook.
10. Uninstall the software from Add Remove Programs.  

If you have a batch of Categories that you need to replicate, just repeat the Destination step for each machine.

Have fun, -Bronson.

The MAPI spooler could not be started MAPI 1.0 [000004C7]

The MAPI spooler could not be started MAPI 1.0 [000004C7].

This was being generated from a mail enabled application, the MS word envelope dialog box, also the Email button in Adobe Acrobat pro.

The fix is to run the following executable:

c:\windows\system32\fixmapi.exe

How to download data and event logs from APC UPS management cards

Drop to a dos prompt.

Open FTP to the APC management card.

Log in as the admin user.

>Bin

>Hash

>Get config.ini

>Get data.txt

>Get event.txt