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How to Set or Change a Dell PowerEdge Service Tag

25 January, 2012

Source: http://lonesysadmin.net/2011/03/08/how-to-set-a-dell-poweredge-service-tag/

Got a Dell PowerEdge that you replaced the motherboard on, and now it doesn’t have a service tag? Reset it with the asset.com tool, which I’ve conveniently packaged as both a floppy disk image and an ISO for those of us in need. They both use the Windows 7 boot disk DOS and asset_A209.com from ftp.dell.com (renamed to asset.com).

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Once you boot from these you can set the service tag with:

asset /s <service tag>

You can also set the asset tag with:

asset <asset tag>

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Check FSMO Roles

5 January, 2012

Run the following vbs script to show you the location off the FSMO roles:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 Set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://rootDSE") Set objSchema = GetObject _ ("LDAP://" & objRootDSE.Get("schemaNamingContext")) strSchemaMaster = objSchema.Get("fSMORoleOwner") Set objNtds = GetObject("LDAP://" & strSchemaMaster) Set objComputer = GetObject(objNtds.Parent) WScript.Echo "Forest-wide Schema Master FSMO: " & objComputer.Name Set objNtds = Nothing Set objComputer = Nothing Set objPartitions More >

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WMIC Delete shadowcopy

15 December, 2011

1) Open an elevated command prompt (“cmd” + ctl-shift-enter)

2) At the command prompt, type “wmic”, after some time “wmic:root\cli>” will appear

3) Type “shadowcopy”

4) it will display a list of existing shadow copies

4) Type “shadowcopy delete”

5) one by one, it will give a “Y/N” style prompt, confirming the deletion of each individual shadow copy.

6) Type “exit” to get back to normal command prompt

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Changing the default SQL Server backup folder

14 December, 2011

When installing SQL, you can change the default SQL Server backup folder. When you want to change this afterwards you can’t do this through a gui.

If you want to change the path open REGEDIT and navigat to the following key (or similar for your instance or SQL version:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQLServer

Change the BackupDirectory key to the desired path.

This default path will be used when backing up a database.

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TSM add/remove schedule as a service

1 December, 2011

Install the windows Service:

dsmcutil install sched /name:"TSM Client Scheduler %NODENAME%" /node:%NODENAME% /password:%PASSWORD% /autostart:no /startnow:no /clientdir:"%DSM_DIR%" /optfile:"%OPTFILE%"

Remove the windows service:

dsmcutil remove /name:"TSM Central Scheduler Service"

source: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsmfdt.doc%2Fans60000559.htm

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SQL Can not connect to SQL Analysis Service

1 December, 2011

When SQL Analysis is installed, but there is no way to connect to it you probably installe only the basis management tools.

Rerun the installation and make sure the complete management tools are installed.

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TDP for <client> backups fail with rc = 612

29 November, 2011

The TDP for backups fail with the following error:

ACN5705W An error was encountered with Tivoli Storage Manager API initialization, rc = 612.

The TSM API’s message file dscenu.txt may have become corrupted, or is at the wrong version. Check dscenu.txt in program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient against the dscenu.txt file in program files\tivoli\tsm\api – if the versions and last-modified dates do not match, then this technote probably applies.

Make a copy of dscenu.txt from the baclient directory to the API directory, and test again.

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