I experienced a problem today where I could not search for e-mails older than 1 day in Outlook. As I have over 10,000 email messages the search function is crucial to quickly find emails. The solution seemed to be a Windows 7 Rebuild Search Index. Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Recover an Exchange 2007 Mailbox using DPM 2012
I needed to recover an Exchange 2007 mailbox using DPM 2012 recently and thought I would share with you the steps I took.
Although there have been many – very good – advances made in System Center Data Protection Manager 2012, the Exchange Item Level Recovery is still in need of some work. Continue Reading
Installing Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012
I have had a huge amount of fun installing Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012 (he says sarcastically!).
I will just say one thing – SQL Server Collation!
I actually carried out the complete install only to find Reporting failed to install.
I went back and re-installed the SQL server with the correct collation;
SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
The details can be found on the following page;
Supported Configurations for System Center 2012 – Operations Manager
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh205990.aspx
Another pre-requisite you will need for both the full install and later when you come to install the Operations Console is;
Microsoft Report Viewer 2010 Redistributable Package
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=6442
Another interesting page is the deployment guide here;
Deployment Guide for System Center 2012 – Operations Manager
http://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh278852.aspx
This also has a walkthru install (but without the pretty picture).
Any other pre-requisites which fail upon install are pretty self-explanatory and can be easily fixed and then re-check the pre-requisites.
And so on to the install……. Continue Reading