IT Systems Engineering
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Changing your own password on a RDP session on Windows Server 2012 R2
Some people recommend using ….control + alt + end on a RDP session to bring up that Windows Security screen, but it does NOT work on nested RDP sessions. This procedure is the only one which worked for me on a Windows 2012 R2 RDP session: Click Start Type osk (to bring up the on screen keyboard) Hit enter Once the on screen keyboard is open, hold ctrl+Alt on your physical keyboard, then click on the del key in the on screen keyboard. Minimize the on screen Keyboard Click Change a password. PS: Thanks a ton for the tip, Bill!
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DPM Protection Groups, how many?
OK so I am trying to figure out what is the best way to create PGs in DPM 2012. From what the research I have done so far, one should create PGs depending upon the protection level and time. So, for example of you have a 5 file servers whose data should be retained for 3 months and 10 database servers whose data should be also be retained for 3 months, you should create just one single PG. Sure, you can also create two PGs, call one “file server PG” and the other “Databases PG” but I do not see any technical advantage of doing so. So going forward, for…
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DPM Protection Groups, how many?
OK so I am trying to figure out what is the best way to create PGs in DPM 2012. From what the research I have done so far, one should create PGs depending upon the protection level and time. So, for example of you have a 5 file servers whose data should be retained for 3 months and 10 database servers whose data should be also be retained for 3 months, you should create just one single PG. Sure, you can also create two PGs, call one “file server PG” and the other “Databases PG” but I do not see any technical advantage of doing so. So going forward, for…
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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.