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While using VMware customization wizard to deploy new machines using a template we found out the new machines are not joining the domain. As checked the netsetup log found that it had the following error NetpModifyComputerObjectInDs :  ldap_add_s failed :  0x35 Doing some searching online found that this may be because of the permission issue of the domain join account for the particular OU where you are trying to join the machine. Made sure that the join account had correct permissions delegated on the OU level After that the domain join step worked fine. Hope this helps

Recently had to create a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 template If you install Mcafee  VSE 8.8 the VMware customization to deploy a VM from the template fails. As checked Mcafee for now do not have nay solution for this problem and the only way to get the deployment using the VMware customization wizard working is by removing VSE 8.8 from the master image of Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hope this helps

One of our servers was losing the Local Admin settings as we control them using GPO (restricted Groups) We were receiving the following event on this particular server : Event ID 4098 Application Event Log The computer 'Administrators (built-in)' preference item in the 'Servers Local Admins {odjd9DBD-22AF-48EA-ADF5-F42ADE4182hst}' Group Policy Object did not apply because it failed with error code '0x80070534 No mapping between account names and security IDs was done.' This error was suppressed. To fix the issue we deleted all the folders from the following location and rebooted the server C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Group Policy\History Hope this helps.

After installing ACT 5.6 ,log processing kept failing with following Event 0 ACTUpload: ACM database version is incompatible.  Logs cannot be processed. I  followed this  to install and configure ACT http://www.techforcast.com/2012/04/act-56-setup-step-by-step.html On the Machine following event appeared everytime it tried to process the logs. Since i had choose to create  DB on separate SQL 2008 R2 SP1 Server and used System Account for Log Processing Service , i needed to add the following permission to system Account of the ACT machine on that DB. After this is done , move all the files from Failed folder to the root of ACT File Share and restart ACT log Processing Service. . Additional tip: In order to push the Data collection package silently using SCCM, i used the following command msiexec /i dcp001.msi /qn Hope this helps.

On Windows Server 2012 , we may sometime face issue adding it through the Server Manager I prefer to use the following command to add .Net 3.5 feature using PowerShell First mount the ISO for windows server . Say it is mounted on D:\ Then run Powershell as Administrator , run the following command dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /all /Source:D:\Sources\SXS Hope this Helps.

If you face a condition where in the C:\ on server 2008 x64 (in my case SCOM 2007 R2 CU5 RMS server) becomes full and you have no more space and don't know what to delete : This is what i deleted and think didn't affect my sever. Clean up Winsxs a little bit: C:\Windows\winsxs http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2008/09/17/what-is-the-winsxs-directory-in-windows-2008-and-windows-vista-and-why-is-it-so-large.aspx Deleted the files under C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\Temp  (5GB)  -- the file modified dates were 3 years ago. So i took a chance Move the archive Security Logs to other location : C:\Windows\System32\winevt\Logs (5GB) You can run Disk Cleanup utility (however you need to Install Desktop Experience feature on the server as Disk cleanup is not part of Windows 2008 and need to be added as a feature) Uninstalled programs from the server that no longer were needed. (e.g management...