What to do with ‘suspect’ tapes in MS DPM 2007 and 2010?

Sometimes it happens that Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007, 2010 and 2012 mark a tape as ‘suspect’. Normally this should happen when 2 different tapes have the same barcode… If you do know that there are not 2 identically labeled tapes in your...

SCCM failes to login at SQL database

Sometimes it happened to me, that our Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 (sccmsrv01) failed to login at our dedicated MS SQL 2005 2 nodes cluster (cluster: sqlclu, node 1: sqlclu01 and node 2: sqlclu02). Everything you could find in the sql logs...

How to connect to / read from / write to SQL Server from Powershell?

First create the connection object, set the connection string and open the connection: $objSqlConnection = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection $objSqlConnection.ConnectionString = “Server=YourSqlServer; Database=YourDataBase; User Id=YourUsername;...