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Use hardware VSS writers in DPM 2012 R2:
I was trying to leverage our SAN hardware’s snapshot capabilities for backup and restore purposes. I noticed that DPM is able to use hardware VSS writers instead of using the regular VSS software provider. The advantage is that snapping is done by the hardware….meaning it is much faster! Here is how I did it for our 3PAR 7400 SAN and our LeftHand P4000 SAN. The backup software I am using is SC DPM 2012 R2 Steps to be taken on all backup servers, all Hyper-V nodes in the HV cluster and all Hyper- Standalone nodes: 1. Install DOT NET 3 from “Add Roles and features” in Server Manager 2.…
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Changing RD web icons
Even after you change the icons for your RemoteApp published programs on the RDSH servers, your icons on RDWeb may not change. This happens because RD Web server caches the icons as images. If you delete this cache, the icons are downloaded again from the RDSH servers…the next time someone launches any RemoteApp. Here is what you need to delete on your RD Web server: C:\Windows\Web\RDWeb\Pages\rdp\* If, even after the cache delete, you do not see the icon, try this little trick: Either remove and re–add the published application or change the published application’s alias.
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Windows update log syntax has changed
The windows update log (under C:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.log) has changed in Windows 2012, as compared with Windows 2008 server. So for checking when the next install will happen, search for this text: 2012 says:scheduled install attempt time Note that this is in GMT but the timestamps are local server time. 2008 says:Setting AU scheduled install time To find when the server will be rebooted search for this text: invoking RebootSystem
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Delete user profiles on a RDSH server
Delprof is an excellent program to delete your users’ profiles: http://helgeklein.com/free-tools/delprof2-user-profile-deletion-tool/ By the way, if you want to do all this manually, here is the procedure for that: http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/1595-how-to-delete-a-user-profile-from-server-2008-terminal-server Additionally, you may want to delete the roaming profiles on your central file server. It is usually difficult to to that because the files are in use. I use a nice little utility called unlocker for that. I run this FOR loop on a command line on the server hosting the roaming profiles: cd C:\Program Files\UnlockerFOR /D %G in (“E:\Shares\Remote Desktop Services\Profile\*”) DO (unlocker “%G” /D /S & timeout /t 30 /nobreak) Note that if you have a lot of profiles,…
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RD Web not showing newly published RemoteApp programs
When we publish new RemoteApp programs OR we disable a RemoteApp program on one of the many servers in our RDSH farm, the RemoteApp program disappears from RD Web. There is a hotfix available for that here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2705427/en-us After I installed it on my Windows Server 2008 R2 server running the RD Web role, it started working fine. It needs a reboot, though.