Scheduled DHCP Backup using Scheduled Tasks

We have recently upgraded 60 Windows 2003 DC to Windows 2008 R2 DC. After up-gradation, client wants to automate DHCP backup. We have thought of going by scheduled tasks. We followed below procedure

A.      Create a batch file for DHCP Backup and copy that file to all DHCP server

B.      Create a scheduled job on DHCP Server to run DHCP Backup file

C.      Run Scheduled job to verify it’s configured properly

D.      Verify

We want this task to be automated, as login to each server and following the procedure will be time consuming job.

System Center 2012: DPM - Installing Agent and Taking Backup

System Center 2012: Data Protection Manager (DPM) - Installation

This blog post will provide the information and steps required to install System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 into your private cloud environment and configure the private cloud.

Please refer System Requirements for the hardware and software requirements needed to install SCAC 2012.

You can either use a physical or virtual machine that meets the above requirements. The machine that I am installing onto is a virtual Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 server on Microsoft Hyper-V. 

System Center 2012: App Controller - Installation

This blog post will provide the information and steps required to install System Center App Controller 2012 into your private cloud environment and configure the private cloud.

Please refer System Requirements for the hardware and software requirements needed to install SCAC 2012.

You can either use a physical or virtual machine that meets the above requirements. The machine that I am installing onto is a virtual Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 server on Microsoft Hyper-V. You need to have System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 already installed into your environment.

Now you need to install the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Console onto the SCAC 2012 server.

System Center 2012: Orchestrator - Installation

This blog post will provide the information and steps required to install System Center Orchestrator 2012 into your private cloud environment and configure the private cloud.

Please refer System Requirements for the hardware and software requirements needed to install SCORCH 2012.

Deployment Overview:-

1.  In AD, create the following accounts and groups, according to your naming convention:

a.  DOMAIN\scorchsvc                      SCORCH Mgmt, Runbook, and Monitor Account

b.  DOMAIN\ScorchUsers                 SCORCH users security global group

2.  Add the domain user accounts for yourself and your team to the ScorchUsers group.

3.  Install Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 to all server role members.

4.  Add the DOMAIN\scorchsvc account to the local administrators group on the SCORCH server.

5.  Add the DOMAIN\ScorchUsers global group to the local administrators group on the SCORCH server.

6.  Install the SCORCH Server.

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 12: Add WSUS Server in VMM

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 11: VMM SSL Certificate

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 10: Create Logical Network

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 9: Create Self Service User Role

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 8: Creating Cloud

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 7: Creating Delegated Administrator

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 6: Creating OS Profile

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 5: Creating Hardware Profile

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 4: Creating Templates

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 3: Create RunAs account and Add Library Server

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 2: Add HyperV Host

System Center 2012: SCVMM - 1: Installation

Export Users, Groups and OU’s from one AD to another AD

Export Users, Groups and OU’s from one Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory Domain to other Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory Domain

One of our engagement with client, client wants to upgrade of Windows 2003 Domain Controller to Windows 2008 R2 Domain Controller and to assure that once upgrade, application integrated with Active Directory will have no impact, we want it to test with Windows 2008 R2 Active Directory Domain. We deploy one fresh Windows 2008 R2 Domain from scratch. The next is to create users, groups OU structure similar to the production environment. So we thought to use LDAP export and import to do that. We have to first import OU, then Users and last Groups. Here are steps we followed to achieve the same.