Active Directory restore problem
Dear All, I have a machine1 on which the Operating System is Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (Service Pack 2). This is the Domain Controller on which Microsoft Exchange 2003 is installed. I want to perform backup of this machine1 using VSS (application specific writers for AD and System State) and restore it on [...]

Answer Question   |  July 11, 2009  10:16 AM
Active Directory, Backup, Domain Controller, Exchange 2003, Volume Shadow Copy Service, VSS Backup, Windows Server 2003

Small Business Server 2008 backup error message for Shadow Copy Service
Using SBS 2008 and get the following error when doing a backup “A Volume Shadow Copy Service operation failed. Unknown error (0X800423F4)” The application event log shows event id: 12290 Any suggestions

Answer Question   |  March 24, 2009  6:33 PM
Error 0X800423F4, Event ID 12290, SBS, SBS 2008, SBS 2008 Error Messages, Volume Shadow Copy Service

Microsoft Sequel Server 2005 VSS backup
What’s seems to have happened is that the SQLVDI.dll files in the 2 directories: C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft SQL Server80COM C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server80COM are out of sync. This seems to have happened as a result of a service pack for MSSQL which was applied in Dev. The Microsoft Sequel VSS writer is unable to initialize [...]

Answer Question   |  March 22, 2011  11:45 AM
Hyper-V, Red Gate SQL Backup, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2005 backup, SQL Server backup, SQL writer, SQLVDI.DLL, Volume Shadow Copy Service, VSS, Windows Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008