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6570b bitlocker tpm enable

October 15, 2012 Barry Mercer Leave a comment

I was having a lot of trouble enabling the TPM in my task sequence in SCCM for the 6570b. Using the biosconfigutility part of SP52095 I discovered that HP have for some inexplicable reason, changed the command to enable the TPM.

OLD:
Activate Embedded Security On Next Boot
Disable
*Enable

NEW
Activate TPM On Next Boot
Disable
*Enable

To be safe, I’d do a /getconfig and makesure that everything else is right. They’ve changed a few other “Embedded security” tags to be simply “TPM” instead.

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manage-bde device is not ready

October 3, 2012 Barry Mercer Leave a comment

Bitlocker was prompting me fro the recovery each time I booted. The solution to this is the following:
manage-bde -protectors c: -disable
manage-bde -protectors c: -ENABLE

However I was then told that the device was not ready when enabling it. The solution is to fire up disk management, assign a drive letter to the hidden partition and then give it a go. This worked for me and I was able to enable it fine. I then removed the drive letter.

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Netapp Oncommand login “Null”

September 28, 2012 Barry Mercer Leave a comment

Have been having a random problem with oncaommand. Despite saving my username and passowrd, after a while ity will stop saving it and show my logon name as being “NULL”. It appears this stems from an encryption key that oncommand uses. From what I gather this is corrupt in someway or oncommand can’t use it. It’s stored (on my win7 machine) in c:\users\%username%\netapp\systemmanager. Delete the three files that are in there (the key, the config and a backup) and you should be good to go next time you open it.

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SMVI Frozen

September 27, 2012 Barry Mercer Leave a comment

Had a problem recently where SMVI backups freeze at 89% with the vcenter showing “Netapp create backup” for eternity. Due to the lack of logging until the task actually completes there’s no way to tell what it’s doing. After a bit of googling I discovered that it’s due to the “snapmirror update” option in the backup. The chances are it’s sat there trying to update the snapmirror, but your destination is too small or there’s another problem.

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Netflix

January 13, 2012 Barry Mercer Leave a comment

So far my free trial with Netflix has been less than magnificent. Many of the films I want are not there. Some new, some old, some neither. Actually, I’ve not watched a single film I’ve searched for. So far, the only things I’ve watched have been films that they have decided I would like. Which is fine. But I’d like to find films I want. Some example I tried that didn’t exist. “The Social Network”, “Office Space”. There are more, but I’ve forgotten. LoveFilm have them…. So I’ve cancelled. And LoveFilm is cheaper! Win