Very useful blog on AD and Exchange

Found this blog while searching best practice for dns client con DC and this article is the best one.

http://abhijitw.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/best-practices-for-dns-client-settings-on-domain-controller/

Troubleshooting Data Protector 7 Installation on W2008 R2

Today I've made a new experience on software installation, in particular I had to install HP Data Protector as a Client on a pretty new box with Windows 2008 R2 Domain Controller.

First of all I experienced the problem with the remote installation that fails with this message:

[Critical] Cannot connect to the SCM (Service Control Manager) on client

computer.company.com: [5] Access is denied.

As reported in “Hp Data Protector 7 Installation and Troubleshooting guide” this could sort out with this procedure:

On W2008 r2 open a console window as an administrator, go to bin installation directory of omniback add your domain user with:

omniinetpasswd.exe -add user@domain

register this user as installation user on installation server:

omniinetpasswd.exe -inst_srv_user user@domain

Then installed again the client with the GUI.

Unfortunately there’s also the UAC on the target server so also this procedure will not install correctly Data Protector and the omniback directory in program file could not be created. So the service will not be installed and the system will not connect to cell manager.

Here my troubleshooting.

1. Disabled uac (see my previous post) – unfortunately the machine has to be rebooted so have to wait midnight.
2. Copyed all the installation file on the target machine and run as administrator the setup file. During the installation process two directory are shown as target directory, since I tried to install two times I looked into this directory and found that c:\program files\omniback was missing. So:
3. Created manually the target directory with logged on user (domain admin)
4. Run again the install.

Worked like a charm. The installation process shown correctly that inet service was installed and running.

Hope this will be helpful if yes please post a comment.

Disabilitare User Access Control su un domain controller Windows 2008 R2

Oltre che a disabilitare questa feature via group policy è anche possibile disabilitarla modificando questa chiave del registro con il comando sotto riportato:

runas /user:DOMAIN\youraccount 

"REG ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f"