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After installing the VMM Console and Agent on our DPM server to enable back up of Hyper-V Live Migration Cluster, the DPM-VMM Helper Service (VmmHelperServiceHost.exe) does not start on Windows Server 2012.

 

This can be found in Event Viewer:

 

Log Name: Application

Source: DpmVmmHelperService

Event ID: 0

 

 Service cannot be started. System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.Security.SecurityException: Requested registry access is not allowed.
   at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.OpenSubKey(String name, Boolean writable)
   at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.VmmHelper.RunSpacePool.GetNumberOfSteadyStateRunspaces()
   at Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.VmmHelper.CVmmHelperService..ctor()
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethod(Object target, Object[] arguments, Signature sig, Boolean constructor)
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeConstructorInfo.Invoke(BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture)
   at System.ServiceModel.Description.ServiceDescription.CreateImplementation(Type serviceType)
   at System.ServiceModel.Description.ServiceDescription.SetupSingleton(ServiceDescription serviceDescription, Object implementation, Boolean isWellKnown)
   at System.S...

 

When trying to start the service in services.msc, it states:

 

The DPM-VMM Helper Service service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they are not in use by other services or programs.

 

I fired up Process Monitor (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx) and filtered out the process VmmHelperServiceHost.exe highlighting the result ACCESS DENIED and found this:

 

VmmHelperServiceHost.exe 7392 RegOpenKey HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\2.0\Configuration ACCESS DENIED Desired Access: Read

 

I opened up regedit and browsed to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\2.0\Configuration, added the permission Everyone Read to that key and voila! The service started.

 

Hope this helps someone out as I couldn't find anything regarding this issue on google.

 

Ciao :)

 

 

I've been trying to install GUI on a Windows Server 2012 R2 Core with the following command:

 

Install-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra,Server-Gui-Shell -Restart

 

But it keeps failing at 68%!

 

After a lot of googling around, I found this page:

 

 

It states that GUI cannot be added because the server cannot access Microsoft Update. Looking at %SystemRoot%\windowsupdate.log it shows me that the server is trying to contact our local WSUS for updates, which does not have the appropriate updates needed to add the GUI.

 

So I created a GPO which disables WSUS and put the server in the OU where I linked the GPO. Ran gpupdate and made sure that WSUS was disabled.

 

"Computer Configuration->Policies->Administrative Templates->Windows Components->Windows Update" and change "Specify intranet Microsoft update service location" to "Disabled". This will revert it to Microsoft.

 

Also, to speed up the install, I used the WIM-file from the operating system DVD as a source, mentioned on this page:

 

 

dism /get-wiminfo /wimfile:d:\sources\install.wim

dism /mount-wim /wimfile:d:\sources\install.wim /index:<n> /mountdir:c:\mountdir /readonly

Install-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra,Server-Gui-Shell -Restart -Source c:\mountdir\windows\winsxs

dism /unmount-wim /MountDir:C:\mountdir /discard

 

Hope this helps someone else out there!

 

Cheers!

 

 

 

Add the following style sheet to the SMPortalPage.master to solve this issue:

 

<style>
body.v4master {
                height:inherit;
                width:inherit;
                overflow:visible!important; //!important to override the original theme.
}

body #s4-workspace {
                overflow-y:auto !important;
                overflow-x:auto !important;
                height:auto !important;
}
</style>

 

Source: http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager/archive/2012/07/05/fixing-the-missing-scroll-bar-issue-on-the-scsm-2012-portal.aspx