Re-blog: Microsoft Site Recovery Solution Launch

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I’m re-blogging here. Over at Virt Planet blog, Jim wrote the following:

This week Microsoft is launching a comprehensive solution to help customers implement cost effective, end-to-end site recovery programs. Built on proven capabilities in Windows Server 2008 R2 and the System Center management suite, Microsoft is helping IT Professionals leverage Windows Server Hyper-V and Failover Clustering along with tools like Virtual Machine Manager to deliver cost effective site recovery.

The Microsoft Site Recovery Solution ecosystem is ramping with a broad range of storage replication partners like Double-Take Software, EMC, HDS, HP delivering solutions that take advantage of the Microsoft Cluster Resource DLL. With cluster integration IT Professionals can deploy streamlined and operationally effective site recovery.

You can learn more about the Microsoft Site Recovery Solution by joining the Microsoft team and Enterprise Strategy Group on Thursday, November 5^th at 10:30am Pacific for a webcast Building Effective and Highly Available Disaster Recovery Solutions Using Microsoft Virtualization This webcast looks at key drivers for site recovery solutions and reviews practical deployment considerations (you can view the recorded version of the webcast after the 5^th). Microsoft and select partners will also be demonstrating Site Recovery Solutions at TechEd, so if you plan to be in Berlin during the week of November 9^th, make sure to stop by the Virtualization Solutions kiosk in the Technical Learning Center.

Patrick

SCOM 2007 installation error “Invalid Management Group name”

Just a small tip.. I was trying to install SCOM 2007 SP1 for PRO integration. I used an old server which used to be SCOM server before we uninstall it.

When I tried to install System Center Operations Manager 2007 I saw the following error when I enter the management group name.

“Invalid Management Group name”

 This problem occurs when the Management Group name is:

 -Empty of Null

-Leading or Trailing spaces

 -Already exists on this computer

-Contains special characters.   The Management Group name should not contain following special characters:
^@)~(:!`#%\*+$|,&&=’["]/<.{;?>}

To continue setup, go back and change the Management Group name.

Actually the uninstall process was fine and did not reflect any errors in the system. I am not SCOM expert but from the error looks like the OS still keeping some information about the old SCOM servers in somewhere. I searched in the registry for the servers and I found some keys still not removed from the old installation.

To solve this problem Just delete the following registry path HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations Manager

Double check if still there any files under your Program Files for the old installation.. if there remove it and restart the server.

ASP.Net 2.0 Not Enabled Error During SCOM 2007 Prerequisite Check

During a Prerequisite check of installing System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007, you may notice that you receive an error displaying that ASP .Net 2.0 is not enabled. If .Net Framework 2.0 has been installed, this error will occur if the .Net Framework 2.0 was installed prior to the installation of Internet Information Services (IIS). To prevent this issue, ensure that IIS is installed prior to the installation of .Net Framework 2.0. To work around an existing issue, do the following:

1. Navigate to C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727
2. Type aspnet_regiis.exe –i –enable

Announced: System Center Remote Operations Manager

Source : Technet Blog

“System Center Remote Operations Manager (ROM) 2007. ROM, scheduled to RTM later this month, is a new product from the Microsoft System Center family that enables solution providers to more effectively and proactively monitor, control, update, and manage their mid-market customers’ distributed infrastructures from a secure remote console.

Specifically, Remote Operations Manager with System Center Essentials at the customer end-point:

Creates a business advantage for IT service providers by enabling them to customize monitoring policies, configure and patch customer IT environments without interrupting users or network service, and providing access to expert knowledge for managing Windows platforms, applications and workloads.

Provides increased security and reliability by establishing a single aggregate view of customer health status and quickly resolve issues when an alert is raised.

Enables the customer to transition from reactive in-house troubleshooting to proactive outsourced management; takes the burden of constant monitoring and availability off of internal IT staff, freeing them to focus on innovation and development.

Additional ROM advisory services also will be available to Certified and Registered partners. These services will provide best practice recommendations, 1:1 consultative workshops, consultative discussions with partner technical consultants, deployment and architectural design guidance and remote access to Microsoft labs