Author: Eswar Koneti

Unlike VMware WorkStation or Virtual PC(Shared folders) ,Hyper-v do not have Easy way to share Host Machine Shared Folders unless you do some Configuration . In this post,will go through how to Access Your Host shared folders(Physical Machine) from your Guest OS (Hyper-v) Machines and Vice Versa (Guest to Host). I am running Hyper-V on my Windows 8 machine and it is Great. After you install Hyper-V,You must have Created Internal Virtual Switch Via Virtual Switch Manager to be used only for Your Lab computers. If you want to have Internet connection on Lab machines ,you can add one more…

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Background info about Replication in SCCM 2012 SP1 : In SCCM 2012 SP1,each site communicates with its parent site and its direct child sites by using two data transfer methods: file-based replication and database replication unlike SCCM 2007. Note: Address is renamed to File replication in SCCM 2012 SP1 Beta. Secondary sites not only communicate to their parent primary sites by using both data transfer methods, but can also communicate with other secondary sites by using file-based replication to route content to remote network locations. File Based Replication happen with applications and packages that you want to deploy to distribution points…

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How can I Install Central Administration Site(CAS) on Windows server 2008 R2 with SQL server 2008 R2 SP1 CU6 Part 1 :http://eskonr.com/2012/09/how-can-i-install-sccm-configmgr-2012-sp1-beta-cas-primary-site-sql-server-2008-r2/ Part 2 : http://eskonr.com/2012/09/how-can-i-install-sccm-2012-sp1-beta-casprimary-with-sql-server-2008-r2/ How can I Install Primary Site as Child to CAS on Windows 2008 R2 with SQL server 2008 R2 SP1 CU6 Part 3 : http://eskonr.com/2012/09/how-can-i-install-sccm-2012-sp1-beta-cas-primary-site-with-slq-server-2008-r2-part-3/

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we see lot of file extensions from inbox folders while replicating information to Child sites .what really these files do and  what information do they carry ? This post is basically talks about what  type of files generated during site-Site Replication. Sometimes I wonder that the file Type is when working with replication issues and see if it requires any attention. It might help you in understanding about replications files types. To know more about how Site-Site Replications works in SCCM 2007,Read http://blogs.technet.com/b/configurationmgr/archive/2011/08/29/site-to-site-data-replication-flow-in-sms-2003-and-configmgr-2007-explained.aspx Also look at this post to know about SCCM Components that helps you in replication issues http://eskonr.com/2012/09/sccm-2007-components-threads-use-site-site-replication/…

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  SCCM 2007 Components are critical to perform its activities and if any of the component is stopped(some components start when they have work to do like Discovery methods are only start if discovery runs) ,you may see issues respective to that Component(Ex: Distribution Manager stopped,nothing process about packages). Some of the components that involved in Site-Site Replication and ensure these components are running before you Dig more into Site-site replication issues. I do check these components if I see any replication issues on my Child sites and follow the troubleshooting Steps. Component Description OFFER MANAGER Offer Manager replicates advertisements…

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http://t.co/brgQy32I SCCM Report Compare packages on 2 DPS: Ok You are done with installation of Primary / Second... http://t.co/m0RB76gY # Monitoring SCCM packages on child sites using senderanalyser tool...: http://t.co/yx6jtIaw # Troubleshooting of Distributed applications in #SCCM / #Configmgr 2007: http://t.co/eNUNEP7v # http://t.co/brgQy32I Troubleshooting #SCCM / #Configmgr Packages: If you are in Large #SCCM / #Configmgr 2007 Env... http://t.co/fln2u0U6 # done the installation of #SCCM / #Configmgr 2012 CAS+Primary...Going with Configurations and Clients etc stuff... # http://t.co/UzsScDt3 ok how about Integration of RDS with #Configmgr 2012 then ? # Web Casts :Deploying a Hyper-V host cluster, Virtual Machine Manager,Operations Manager,…

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Once you are done with installation/configuration of the sites/Distribution Point,you start distributing the content to it.sometimes you may have to check if the site which you configured has all the content that serve for clients to receive packages. For this,you can compare the newly configured server with already existing server  which has all the content including packages,drivers,SUP ,OSD etc . Here is simple report compare the list of packages missing from newly configured server: sccm2012sec is considered as base server which has all the content in it sccm2012nor is newly configured one select s.SiteCode,s.PackageID,p.Name,(p.sourcesize)/1024 as "size(MB)",s.sourceversion as "DPVersion",p.storedpkgversion as Latversion,s.Installstatus…

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