Warning Message:

The site server might be unable to publish to Active Directory. The computer account for the site server must have Full Control permissions to the System Management container in its Active Directory domain. You can ignore this warning if you have manually verified these permissions. For more information about your options to configure required permissions, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=233190.

Create a new container called “System Management” underneath the “System” Container and grant your SCCM Server full control on it.

To do this:

1. Log on as an account that has the Create All Child Objects permission on the System container in Active Directory Domain Services.
2. Click Start – Run and type “ADSIEdit.msc”. Connect to the domain in which the site server resides (Right Click ADSI Edit -> Connect).
3. Expand Domain, right-click CN=System, click New, and then click Object.
4. In the Create Object dialog box, select “Container”, and then click Next.
5. In the Value box, type “System Management”, and then click Next.
6. Click Finish.
7. Right click the new Container and select “Properties”
8. Click the Security tab and add your SCCM Server (don’t forget to check “Computer Objects”) with Full Control

SCCM 2012 RC2 Setup Error

Configuration Manager requires that you configure your SQL Server instance and Configuration Manager site database (if already present) to use the SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS collation

Run SQL Setup using the following parameters to rebuild the Database (You cannot change a collation on the fly):

setup.exe /A CTION=REBUILDDATABASE /SQLCOLLATION=SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS /INSTANCENAME=M SSQLSERVER /SQLSYSADMINACCOUNTS=%username%

You may need to change the values to suit your SQL Environment

We finally got rid of our HP MSA1000 we used for the Lab Environment. Altough we only host like 40 Servers on the SCVMM Cluster, the 35MB/sec which the MSA provided was a bit of a pain.

So we found that superfancy Synology Product and it said something about ~200MB/sec R/W performance so we thought why not give it a try! If it dowsn’t work out, we still can have our students to return it to the shop.

http://www.synology.com/products/product.php?product_name=DS1512%2B&lang=enu

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First off: Don’t use IIS to modify AppPool Settings on a Sharepoint server

If you want to change the Application Pool Account for an existing WebApplication go to:

Central Administration – Security – Configure Service Accounts and select the desired Web Application AppPool from the drop down list.

Now select the Account and click OK.

Do an IISReset /NOFORCE on all your Farm Servers.

I recently bought an ASUS Rampage IV Extreme (Battlefield 3 Edition) board.
A really nice motherboard that somes with all the new and fancy features.

After assembling everything I turned on my new machine but found that nothing happens on the screen!
The OnBoard Error Display said something about “Exit Boot Services Event” (Error AF or B0, can’t really remember). After a small research I found a great post on Tom’s Hardware.
However, I could not believe that a Water Cooling System would neither be supported nor make any difference.
From my understanding, a MainBoard would not recognize what mechanism would cool the CPU (I am not so much a Harware guy).

Long Story short sense, here’s what I did to resolve the issue:

Untighten the Screws of the CPU Fan!

It sounds very odd, but somehow the board seems to lose contact to a component if you bolt down the screws too much.