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System Center Essentials “Root Management Server Unavailable” errors

Post author:By Paul Cunningham

A System Center Essentials 2007 server may raise the following alert: Alert: Root Management Server Unavailable. Source: sce01.domain.internal Path: sce01.domain.internal Last modified by: System Last modified time: 4/11/2008 1:21:26 PM Alert description: The root management server (Healthservice) has stopped heartbeating soon after 4/11/2008 1:18:48 PM. This adversely affects all availability calculation for the entire […]

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November 5, 2008

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How to migrate WSUS 3.0 from SQL Express to a remote SQL Server

Post author:By Paul Cunningham

In this article I will demonstrate how to migrate an existing WSUS 3.0 SP1 server from a local SQL Express instance to a remote SQL Server 2005 Database Services instance. Firstly be aware of these limitations when deploying WSUS with a remote SQL Server instance. You cannot use a server configured as a domain controller […]

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September 24, 2008

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How to move WSUS 3.0 to a new server

Post author:By Paul Cunningham

In this article I will outline how to migrate WSUS 3.0 to a new server using a local SQL Express instance and without downloading all of the updates again. 1. Install WSUS on new server with local express database. 2. During configuration wizard choose "Synchronize from another WSUS server…", enter the name of the existing […]

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September 22, 2008

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I deleted Temp files and now the SCE console won’t open

Post author:By Paul Cunningham

I was doing a little cleanup of the C: drive on a server that was unfortunately created with too small a volume size. One of the things I deleted was all of the files and subfolders in the Temp folder of my user profile. A few minutes later I launched the System Center Essentials 2007 […]

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August 4, 2008

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