Microsoft System Center DPM 2012 R2 - Exchange 2013 Backup Error

We recently upgraded our Exchange to 2013. The DPM agent installed perfectly on the Exchange server, but the backups on the DPM server running Windows Server 2012 reported constant failures.
The backup fail, with this error :

Type: Consistency check
Status: Failed
Description: Data consistency verification check failed for LOGS of Exchange Mailbox Database Mailbox Database 11111 on Mail.domain.local. (ID 30146 Details: Unknown error (0xc0000135) (0xC0000135))

The fix is to install Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 x64 from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679

Exchange 2013 SP1 anti-malware updates not working

On a fresh install of Exchange 2013 SP1 anti-malware updates are not working. In event viewer we get following error:

Log Name:      Application

Source:        Microsoft-Filtering-FIPFS

Date:          3/21/2014 9:16:06 PM

Event ID:      6027

Task Category: None

Level:         Error

Keywords:     

User:          NETWORK SERVICE

Computer:      Mail.domain.local

Description:

MS Filtering Engine Update process was unsuccessful in contacting the Primary Update Path. Update Path: http://forefrontdl.microsoft.com/server/scanengineupdate

Event Xml:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

  <System>

    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Filtering-FIPFS" Guid="{1BE3A000-EA09-4AB8-B0A0-30BBB6793D80}" />

    <EventID>6027</EventID>

    <Version>0</Version>

    <Level>2</Level>

    <Task>0</Task>

    <Opcode>0</Opcode>

    <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>

    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-03-21T19:16:06.892015100Z" />

    <EventRecordID>163920</EventRecordID>

    <Correlation />

    <Execution ProcessID="2044" ThreadID="8468" />

    <Channel>Application</Channel>

    <Computer>Mail.domeniu.local</Computer>

    <Security UserID="S-1-5-20" />

  </System>

  <EventData>

    <Data Name="UpdatePath">http://forefrontdl.microsoft.com/server/scanengineupdate</Data>

  </EventData>

</Event>

I have checked also on a similar test environment and I get same error.

Solution to solve this issue is to give to "Network Service" account to have full control, or at least "write" access on \Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\FIP-FS\Data\Engines\amd64\Microsoft\bin .

After this change updates are working properly.

Hyper-V cannot connect to the specified Replica server

Today on a Hyper-V server when I tried to enable replication for a virtual machine and I get following error:

"Hyper-V cannot connect to the specified Replica server 'xxxxxx'. Error: A connection with the server could not be established (0x00002EFD). Verify that the specified server is enabled as a Replica server, allows inbound connection on port '80', and supports the same authentication scheme."

 

All settings on Hyper-V  server are in place and this settings are working perfectly on other identical servers.

So....what cause the problem?...well... the problem was caused by global proxy server defined on configuration. I have deleted the global proxy configuration using "netsh winhttp reset proxy" and problem was fixed.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager - User Role Permissions

In System Center Virtual Machine Manager when create a User Role there is a propriety in permission settings called “Local Administrator” and description is 'Grants local administrator rights on virtual machines.
 

This description is a little ambiguous and my first thought was that option will add user to Local Administrator Account Group on guest machine. But…. This is not true.
This option "Local Administrator" allow self-service user to change the password for Administrator account on deployment from template. If this option is not enabled self-service user cannot change password for administrator account on deployment from template.

 

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