torsdag 24 april 2014

System Center 2012 R2 Update Rollup 2 is now avaible

I might be a bit late, but Microsoft have now released Update Rollup 2 for its System Center 2012 R2 products.

In this update support for Windows Server 2003 is added, also support for the following workloads on Windows Server 2003:

  • SQL 2005
  • SQL 2008
  • SQL 2008 R2 
  • Sharepoint 2007
Here is a link for the KB over at Microsoft. KB2932881

And remember, always take a backup of the DPM database before installing the upgrade!

/Joseph

tisdag 22 april 2014

dpmdsacl.exe has stopped working - When enabling End-user Recovery

So easter is over and thank god for that! Too much food and whatnot!

Anyway, Im back in the sadle as they say, or back to behind the bench at Santas Workshop.

Today I hit a strange problem when enabling End-User Recovery on the DPM server. (Note: I have had an old DPM Server in this domain that I uninstalled, and that DPM server had EUR activated in the current labdomain)
When clicking on "Configure Active Directory" and filling in the credentials I was prompted with the following error message:
"dpmdsacl.exe has stopped working" 
With the problem details:
"Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
  Application Name: dpmdsacl.exe
  Application Version: 4.2.1205.0
  Application Timestamp: 5226e06b
  Fault Module Name: KERNELBASE.dll
  Fault Module Version: 6.3.9600.16496
  Fault Module Timestamp: 52b3f283
  Exception Code: e0434352
  Exception Offset: 0000000000005a88
  OS Version: 6.3.9600.2.0.0.272.7
  Locale ID: 1033
  Additional Information 1: 7644
  Additional Information 2: 7644cee486badc818e8a96bb7aba3bfd
  Additional Information 3: 323f
  Additional Information 4: 323fd7577665c71a733ee3b0c137aa0d"

It seems that when you run the dpmdsacl.exe it creates and tries to set the rights for the container in Active Directory called CN=MS-ShareMapConfiguration,CN=System,DC=SantasWorkshop,DC=north,DC=pole
and the ACLs List Content and Create/Delete ms-ShareMapConfiguraiton.

I added the access rights for the new DPM server and now it works!