Archive for April, 2012

Installing the FIM 2010 Server Components

By SuperG - Last updated: Monday, April 23, 2012

The Bulk of the information here was taken from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff512686.aspx You must use an account with: Local administrator privileges SharePoint administrator on the portal SQL sysadmin. During installation, Setup tries to contact the other components to validate that the service is running. For the contact to function correctly, remote administration must be activated in Windows […]

Pre-setup tasks for FIM

By SuperG - Last updated: Monday, April 23, 2012

The Bulk of the information here was taken from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff512685.aspx Before you start this make sure your FIM server is setup. Look here for information. Before you install the Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 server there are some tasks that you must do before hand. Create an e-mail-enabled domain service account to run the FIM […]

Hardware and Software Requirements

By SuperG - Last updated: Monday, April 23, 2012

The Bulk of the information here was taken from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff512684.aspx I will be running all the FIM services from one server so I need to have all the software listed for each service installed. Required Hardware The server or servers that host Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 server components must meet the following minimum hardware […]

Microsoft Storage Server iSCSI

By SuperG - Last updated: Sunday, April 15, 2012

All the information here is taken from this BLOG, the only thing I did was add pictures to make the directions clearer. http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2007/12/18/configuring-the-microsoft-iscsi-software-target.aspx Add iSCSI Targets The first thing to do is add two iSCSI Targets to the Storage Server. To do this, right-click the iSCSI Targets node in the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target MMC […]

Test Network

By SuperG - Last updated: Sunday, April 15, 2012

So I decided to build myself a Virtual test network to play with some new technology we are using at work. The next few posts will be about the building of the test network. The Idea Things I would need. A computer beefy enough to run the Virtual network and enough storage for the virtual […]

Mirroring

By SuperG - Last updated: Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Had a need to mirror a database the other day… As its been awhile since I have had to do this and it took entirely too long. After playing with it for a couple of days here are the steps we used to make it work. Make a full backup of the database.

Windows Update service fails to start

By SuperG - Last updated: Tuesday, April 3, 2012

This is an easy one but I have see a lot of posts about it, and this last week I needed to fix a broken Windows Update agent myself as SCCM was no longer working due to the service hanging. Windows update does not start. (Fails to start or never gets past “starting”) You may […]

Remote Help not connecting

By SuperG - Last updated: Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Remote Help not connecting DCOM error When using Microsoft Remote Help to connect to a computer you get the following window almost immediately.

Delegating permissions to run Dfsrdiag

By SuperG - Last updated: Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Where I work, we have regional IT support personal to provide “touch labor”. They also run their own file share server that has DFSR setup back to the corporate headquarters. While troubleshooting an issue with one of the local IT support techs, I was having her run some DFSRDIAG commands but she was getting an […]

JAVA 1330 Error and Fix

By SuperG - Last updated: Tuesday, April 3, 2012

JAVA 1330 Error invalid Digital signature You try and install any version of JAVA on VISTA and your receive: Error 1330. A File that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet file <path to file> has an invalid digital signature. This may indicate that the cabinet file is corrupt.