How to Install the FSRM (File Server Resource Manager) in Windows Server 2012

 

File Server Resource Manager is a suite of tools that allows administrators to understand, control, and manage the quantity and type of data stored on their servers. By using File Server Resource Manager, administrators can place quotas on folders and volumes, actively screen files, and generate comprehensive storage reports. This set of advanced instruments not only helps the administrator to efficiently monitor existing storage resources but it also aids in the planning and implementation of future policy changes.

To do this, I have created a Virtual PC with Windows 2012 Server and Promoted the server as a Domain controller. then enable the file Serve.

To enable FSRM you can follow the below mentioned steps.

Go in to Manage > Add Roles and Features

Click Next.

Next window you can select Role-based or Feature-based installation

Need to Select the destination Server from next window.

Then Select the File Server Resource Manager under File And Storage Service > File and iSCSI Services

Here you need to click Add Feature.

In next window you can click next because we don’t want to add any additional feature.

Click Install after check the confirmation window.

Restart the Server and once the Server boot up, you can find the FSRM Service under Tools.

Server Manager > Tools > File Server Resource Manager

Hope this will help you to configure your FSRM service in Windows 2012 server and I’ll try to cover How to assign Folder Quotas , File Screening, Storage Reports, Event Log Integration, Automated Scripts and E-mail Notification configuration on FSRM.

How to disable Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address in Windows 2012 Server

 

This issue I saw in Windows 2012 Sever and got to  know that this can be seen in Windows 2008 and Windows 7 PC’ also. hope below steps will help you to resolve the IP Address conflicting issue in your virtual environment.

When you enter Ipconfig /all command you will see something like this.

C:\Windows\system32>ipconfig /all

First you need to check the ip version 4 interfaces and the interface ID numbers. for that you can type,

C:\Windows\system32>netsh interface ipv4 show inter

Now you know your Ethernet interface ID is no 12. Then you can run below mentioned command.

C:\Windows\system32>netsh interface ipv4 set interface 12 dadtransmits=0 store=persistent

After that you need to  restart your Server and once it boot up, check the network settings.

C:\Windows\system32>ipconfig /all

Now Your server will work with the network settings which you have entered.

After restarting your server still if you are getting the Same error. you can do a DHCP service restart by going in to Services (Type Services.msc  in CMD) then restart the DHCP Service.

Hope this helps you..

(solved) - 'ping' is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file.

  When you are try to ping some destination IP address and if you are getting above mentioned error,  you can follow these steps to resolve this.
This error will be prompt when you try to run Ping, tracert (trace route), etc..

Go in to Advanced system settings in your PC

Then Click Advanced and select Environment Variables.

Then Select 'PATH' from the list of system variables and edit and set PATH to c:\windows\system32

Hope this will help you to solve your problem

If not you can use below mentioned command to make it work,
first go to CMD and type,
dir %SystemRoot%\System32\ping.exe
path %path%;%SystemRoot%\System32
After successfully enter those commands you are able to use "ping" command. 

How to set up a Mirrored Array in Windows 2012

Even with the best backup solution, a hard drive crashes, you’ll lose a few hours of work. By enabling drive mirroring in Windows 2012, you’ll always have an up-to-date copy of your data.
This is a software implementation of RAID 1 in Windows , which means that two or more disks are holding the exact same data. The files are constantly kept in sync, so that if one of the disks fails, you won’t lose any data.
You will need at least one empty disk to set up disk mirroring. I will show you how to mirror an existing disk without losing any data on the mirrored drive, In my case I'm using two 2TB Seagate Hard Drivers.  To start this,
1. From the tools menu you can select Computer Management.

2. Then you can select Disk Management from the next window and then you can see Disk1 and Disk 2 are in Unallocated state.

3.Just right click on the Disk1 and then you can select New mirrored Volume from the dropdown window.

4. Click Next to continue

5. Click on the drives you want to hold the mirrored data and click Add. Note that you can add any number of drives. Click Next.

6. Once you select the disk, click add and Next button to go to next step.

7. Assign it a drive letter, and then click Next.

8. Now you’re limited to using the NTFS file format for mirrored drives, so enter a volume label, then select Perform quick format. enable compression if you want, and then click Next.

9. Then click Finish to start formatting the drives.

10. You will be warned that the new drives will be converted to dynamic disks. Click Yes

11. we are done with the configuration. now you  can see the mirrored driver as a new Volume (E:) and in the Disk management console you  can see those to mirrored drivers in red color.

How to install SCCM2012 Operation Manager

Operations Manager provides infrastructure monitoring that is flexible and cost-effective, helps ensure the predictable performance and availability of vital applications, and offers comprehensive monitoring for your Datacenter and cloud, both private and public.

First you have to download the Ops manager. If you want you can use 180 days free pack and you can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/system-center/default.aspx  link. Use your live ID to logging and then you can download all System Center Products.

Select the Features that you want to install.

Give a location to install OPsManager

Once you click next it will run the prerequisites checker and listed down all the prerequisite problems.

Then you can see all the errors and the resolutions that you have to use to fix those errors. Here I have got IIS error and to fix this we have to go in to IIS Manager (type 'Inetmgr" in the run window)

In the Connections pane, click the server name. Then In the Home pane, double-click ISAPI and CGI Restrictions. Go in to ASP.NET v4.0.30319 and allowed it.

After that you can hit net button to proceed with the installation.

Give a Management Group name

Accept the License.

Then you have to configure the Operational database and the Data warehouse Databases.

After that select the SQL Server instance from the drop down list

If you have no enable the SQL server Agent in SQL Server Management Studio, you will get the following error. To avoid this you have to enable the SQL server Agent in SQL Server Management Studio.

Then select the Web Site from the drop down list. If you want you can enable SSL in this site.

Select the Authentication mode for the Web console

And give your Account details.

If you want you can Enable\disable the Windows Updates

Installation summary. Click Install to continue

Once you done with that you can open the Operations Console.