Monthly Archives: October 2009

Error Installing SQL 2008 SP1 on Windows 7

You are required to install Microsoft SQL 2008 SP1 after installing SQL 2008 on Windows 2008 and 7. After launching the SP1 setup you might receive the following error: TITLE: SQL Server Setup failure. —————————— SQL Server Setup has encountered the following error: Invoke or BeginInvoke cannot be called on a control until the window […]

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SCOM 2007 R2 MOM Agent Activation context generation failed

I came across the following errors today on the server I’m trying to push the SCOM MOM Agent to a Windows 2008 server: Log Name: Application Source: SideBySide Date: 10/15/2009 9:29:04 AM Event ID: 33 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: SERVER01.domain.pvt Description: Activation context generation failed for “C:\Program Files\System Center […]

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Running OpsMgr 2007 R2 DBCreateWizard on 64-bit SQL Server

There may be an issue when running the R2 64-bit DBCreateWizard on an SQL server. You may see the following in the application log: Log Name: Application Source: Bid Date: 10/14/2009 2:09:38 PM Event ID: 1 Task Category: None Level: Warning Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: SQL01.domain.pvt Description: C:\ISO\OpsMgr 2007 R2\DBCreateWizard.exe 8880 Tweet

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How to Install Systems Center Capacity Planner on Windows 7

Had an issue installing Systems Center Capacity Planner on Windows 7 today… it would not. It kept prompting me with a blank window with the options “yes” or “no”. The Setup MSI package is looking for MDAC. MDAC already is included with Windows 7 so there is no need to install. Basically you need to […]

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