Christopher's questions

Our environment is running SCCM 2012 SP1 CU2. Our workstation base is 99% Windows 7, most of which are 64 bit.

This post (link) shows details similar to what is going on.

Basically, something goes wrong (doesn't matter what - I can find no pattern) and ccmeval decides to remediate the client. Unfortunately, it launches ccmsetup.exe twice, which FUBAR's the client for sure, and seems to be able to do damage to WMI in some cases.

It is not related to WMF 3 like the article above states. My workstation has WMF 3 and does not auto-remediate. Rather. anytime that a remediation is triggered, it breaks the client.

I know I can just turn off auto-remediation, thereby creating more work for my team, but saving some headaches.

So here's my question - has anyone run into this behavior and figured out what was going wrong?

Further, were you able to fix it? If so, how (in your environment)?

I'm hoping to avoid a call to MS, but I would really like to know what is wrong and if there is a fix for it. Looked at SCCM 2012 R2 docs and don't see anything that looks a fix.

I know how to perform an offline defragmentation - I am just curious as to what criteria the community uses as to when to run an offline defrag. Boss saw a few dbs with about 30% whitespace and now wants to offline defrag all databases.

So what do you suggest - a certain percentage of whitespace? When we need the room?

We have a Windows Server 2008 R2 box running Hyper-V hosting VM's. The server is a Dell M610 Blade server. The VM's are performing normally.

However, I cannot RDP into the server. I get prompted for username and password, then after I hit enter I am returned to the RDP connection screen.

I tried to connect Event Viewer remotely and got an Access Denied error.

I went to the chassis console and used the iDRAC gui to access the server. However, when I send the Ctrl-Alt-Del keystrokes, all I get on the screen is a Cancel button, no boxes for logging in with user name and password.

Anyone have any ideas what is going on?

We have a user who has an iPad that is synching to our Exchange 2007 SP1 Server. She is reporting that her contacts are being "eaten", which we take to mean are being slowly deleted over time. This user also has a BlackBerry that is synching through a Blackberry Enterprise Server.

I have two questions -

1) Has anyone run into this situation of "self-deleting" contacts or does anyone have any idea what is going on?

2) Can anyone give insight into usage of iPads in their Active Directory/Exchange environment?

Update:

I was just told that the contacts are not missing, but the information inside the contacts is missing. Also that there is another user having the same issue who is using an Android OS phone that synchs to our Exchange server.

Is it possible to take snapshots in Hyper-V (on Windows Server 2008 R2) directly to a network location? I want to set the Snapshot Location under Settings on the VM to \server\c$\StoreVMsHere.

We would like to take weekly snapshots and store them in a different location from the Hyper-V server.

Is this going to be a manual move situation, or can I snapshot directly to a different network location?

I have a Server 2008 R2 box running Hyper-V, hosting VM's. I have 4 NIC's set up - the primary network NIC, 1 NIC for the SAN, and 2 NIC's for the virtual machines. The 2 NIC's for the virtual machines continue to register in DNS despite having the Register this Connection in DNS checkbox cleared. I am running a Windows Server 2003 Domain with AD-Integrated Zones.

Even after I delete the A records for the 2 NIC's for the virtual machines, they continue to re-appear in DNS.

I am not sure how to stop this behavior.