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Unable to Add…/Edit…/Delete Domain Controllers computer set on TMG/ISA

This blog post isn’t related to my expertise (Virtualization), but I had this problem and want share with you!

In my domain I installed two new WS2012 domain controllers and wanted to add to the Domain Controllers under Computer Sets folder on TMG in my primary site and on ISA 2006 in my branch office. When I opened Domain Controller properties buttons Add… Edit… and Delete were dimmed.

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So, what to do? Follow the pictures below and you will see how to resolve that issue…

– Launch ADSI Edit from TMG Server

– Connect to localhost on port 2171 [localhost:2171] and Naming context CN=FPC2

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– Expand CN=FPC2—>CN=Array-Root—>CN=Arrays—>CN={xxxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxx}*—>CN=RuleElements —>CN=ComputerSets

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How to find right entry? Expand CN=ComputerSets, on the each entry open Properties until you find the right: Domain Controllers in domain in which the TMG/ISA Server is a member.

Like in the picture below.

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At the same Attribute Editor mark msFPCPredefined, click on Edit and from TRUE change to FALSE.

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Now you can Add… Edit… or Delete domain controllers as you wish.

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Enjoy in day!

Romeo

Romeo Mlinar
March 13, 2013
Administration, Microsoft, Recovery, TMG
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MVP Global Summit 2013 – It was nice, it was good!

As my friend Adis Jugo says, “It was nice, it was good!”

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First of all what I must mention! All what we heard at the MVP Summit sessions is strictly confidential and under NDA (Non-disclosure agreement) and I can’t tell anything about what will be new in Microsoft world. What happened at MVP Summit, stays at summit ;)
So, this blog post will be just short review about my impressions from summit!

MVP Global Summit is the biggest conference for MVPs organized by Microsoft, almost 1500 MVP from over the world in one place, Bellevue and Redmond, Washington state.
From our region, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Serbia were almost 20 MVPs.

MVP crowd from CEE & Italy
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Rookie MVPs (Ivan Kardum, Spaso Lazarevic and I) at First MVP meeting in Rock Bottom
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Most of us arrived two days before Summit and we had little time to visit Seattle, Bellevue and Redmond and of course we had reserved time for shopping :). Ogy, thanks for a great ride through the streets of America :)

At Monday, 18th my Product Group (Virtual Machine) had sessions in Microsoft Campus (Redmond) and finally I met few great MVPs from Virtual Machine product group (Lenardo Carvalho, Dariusz Porowski, Carsten Rachfahl, Alessandro Cardoso, Thomas Maurer…) and few great people from Microsoft, Ben Armstrong aka VirtualPCGuy (our PG lead), Jose Barreto…

From Monday until Thursday we had all day sessions and were really busy.
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Picture for history, VirtualPC Guy (Ben Armstrong, Hyper-V guru) and I in Hyatt Regency hotel
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Also, you can see great video interview with Ben Armstrong recorded by MVP Virtual Machine fellow Carsten Rachfahl.

Each day after sessions we had a party or something similar (networking with other MVPs or Microsoft employees). Wednesday evening was reserved for the big attendee party in the CenturyLink Field stadium Seattle.
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For me personally, the best party was in Wild Ginger organized by Alessandro Teglia (CEE & Italy MVP lead).

At the end, it was great, it was amazing. One great experience! I hope that I’ll go again next year!

2013 MVP Global Summit is behind us, let’s go to work.

Cheers,

Romeo

Romeo Mlinar
February 27, 2013
Conferences, Hyper-V, Microsoft MVP, OnTheField, Virtualization
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Hyper-V role inside Hyper-V virtual machine

Few times until now colleagues asked me it is possible to install Hyper-V role inside Hyper-V virtual machine! Yes, it’s possible, but (always that BUT) you can’t run virtual machine on virtualized Hyper-V host. You can install Hyper-V role inside Hyper-V virtual machine through PowerShell or Virtual Machine Manager. Of course, this is workaround and isn’t supported!

In this blog post I’ll describe how to do that through PowerShell.

Very often I use that scenario in my presentations/demos, for example… demo for Hyper-V Replica, demo for Hyper-V Cluster, etc..
On laptop I have Windows 8 with Hyper-V role installed and couple of virtual machines.
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In this case I’ll install Hyper-V role on the VM called GuiToCore. As you can see in the picture, Hyper-V role isn’t installed.
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Logon into virtual machine and open PowerShell as Administrator and type:

dism /online /enable-feature /FeatureName:Microsoft-Hyper-V
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After few minutes role is installed and you must restart virtual machine
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When you logon again into virtual machine you need to install Hyper-V Management Tools. You can do that through PowerShell or via GUI.
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As you can see in the picture below we have Hyper-V role on the Hyper-V virtual machine installed.
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Now, I will install one virtual machine into virtualized Hyper-V host ;)
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As I mention at the beginning, when try to start VM you will be get error. This scenario is very useful only for the demo purposes.
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Enjoy in your virtual virtualized environment! :)

Cheers!

Romeo Mlinar
January 29, 2013
Virtualization
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