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DreamensioN presents Universal Language 046 (with DJ Blighty guest mix)

In this months show, I lay down a smooth and melodic set.  I’ve gone back into my music collection and brought out some older remixes of some well known tracks.  My set is a “listeners” set, full of ambient vocal soundscapes and melodic uplifting riffs.  It’s very easy on the ears and one I think you will enjoy.  The guest for this month comes all the way from Holland.  DJ Blighty engages you with some beautiful trance tunes, and builds his set energetic uplifting big room sound.  It’s the perfect compliment to the show.

 

Here is the info on DJ Blighty….

The story…

Music from the dance scene has always played a important role in Vincent’s life but he shall never forget the moment a friend gave him a mixed trance CD. He was just sold. This is what he wanted to do: mixing.

After making some compilation cd’s on the computer with basic software Vincent decided to take his passion to a higher level. A couple of months later he was the proud owner of two turntables and a mixer.

Now, a few years down the road, the former BasicBeats.net resident dj Vincent, who’s dj name is Blighty, is a resident DJ at Afterhours.FM, a big online radio station.

Besides his former resideny at BasicBeats.net and Hotradio, a Dutch radio station where Blighty was the resident “short-mix” maker and some guest appereances on Dutch (Slam FM, XFM) an international radio stations (for example ETN and Radio Pluss Norway) Blighty is also active “in the field”

Blighty was a resident dj at the “Equilibrium” party’s which were held in Diogenes, Nijmegen. Blighty and fellow dj Julian Vincent have decided to continue this concept which will happen very soon. Besides spinning at the event themselves they will invite friend dj’s to form a attractive and versitile line up.

Blighty has also introduced the people to his progressive and uplifting sound on some big events. These events include the introductions of the university of Nijmegen in 2003 and 2004,”Erotic Dreams” which was organised by Underwater Experience, the outdoor event “Groesdance”, Arise, a big dance events which was held in de Vereniging in Nijmegen and more recently two editions. of “Club Mystique” in the Happy Dayzz in Culemborg.

Besided Dutch performances Blighty visited Norway in the summer of 2004 where he performed on an outdoor event in Gjovik and at a club night in Oslo called “Fascinated” Chances are that Blighty will be returning to Norway again to introduce his sound to more fellow trance and progressive lovers.

Blighty ended second at the DJ contest of the Music Awards Gelderland 2003 and was also selected to compete in the Dance Society DJ contest of 2004. He also reached the semi-finals of the TWSTD DJ contest 2005 in Amsterdam.

In the future Blighty wants to keep active on Afterhours.FM as well as on other radio stations, but his main target for him is to introduce more and more people around the world to his sound.

 
Tracklist:

-== DreamensioN ==-
01 – Oceanlab – Miracle (Fletch remix)  [Anjunabeats]
02 – Markus Schulz – Daydream (feat Andy Moor)  [Coldharbour Recordings]
03 – The King and the Thief – The Blacksmith (Paul Trainer remix)  [S107 Records]
04 – Shato – Something Between Us (Odonbat Proglifting remix)  [Unearthed Records]
05 – Super8 and Tab feat Jan Burton – Empire (Craig Connelly remix)  [Anjunabeats]
06 – Abstract Vision and Elite Electronic – Echoes (Protoculture remix)  [Enhanced Progressive]
07 – Orjan Nilsen – Lovers Lane (The Blizzard remix)  [Armind]
08 – Yuri Kane – Right Back (Original extended)  [Premier]
09 – Mr. Pit – Beside Words (Original mix)  [Coldharbour Recordings]
10 – Ali Wilson and Lee Osborne – Sonar (Original Mix)  [High Contrast Recordings]
11 – DT8 Project – Hold Me Till The End  (Original Club mix)  [Euphonic]

–= DJ Blighty ==-
01 – Aurosonic feat. FKN – You and me (Intro Mix)
02 – Skytech – Planet
03 – Skytech – Comet (Space Rockerz Remix)
04 – Svyatoslav Maltsev – Wait until the end (Paul Vinitsky Remix)
05 – Abstract Vision and Elite electronics – Echoes (Protoculture Remix)
06 – Masters of balance – Dreamworld (Markus Schulz Remix)
07 – Sultan and Ned Shepard feat Nadia. Call my name (Max Graham and Protoculture extended mix)
08 – Orjan Nilsen – Shoutbox!
09 – Lange pres. LNG – Brandalism (Lange Remix)
10 – Bobina and Betsie Larkin – You belong to me (Original dub Mix)
11 – Dash Berlin feat. Emma Hewitt – Disarm yourself (Dub Mix)

267mb zip, 320kb quality
Download DreamensioN – Universal Language 046 (/w DJ Blighty Guest Mix)

 

SCOM Reporting installation fails with Value 3

Here is another interesting problem I came across today. I had a lot of trouble installing SCOM Reporting on SQL 2008 R2, running on Windows 2008 R2. If you can imagine this setup. 

Server 1 = RMS Server

Server 2 = OpsMgr DB

Server 3 = Data Warehouse DB + SQL Reporting Services

All servers are running Windows 2008 R2, and all SQL Database servers are running SQL 2008 R2. When installing SCOM Reporting, the Data Writer and Data Reader accounts were both domain service accounts.

Now here was the problem. Every time I would go to install SCOM Reporting, the installation with fail when attempting to connect to the management group with the following messages.

 

The setup wizard was interrupted before Operations Manager 2007 R2 could be installed. Your system has not been modified. To complete installation at another time, please run setup again.

 

 

After I click Finish, I get this message:

 

The setup failed. Do you want to open the setup log file (search for “value 3″ in the file for locating failure)?

 

Searching the log file for “value 3″ revealed several errors, however the first instance of “value 3″ in the log file looked like this….

 

2011-04-14T15:44:36.4234862+10:00 Error: ManagementGroupDisconnectHelper error: ManagementGroupConnectOrDisconnectHelper: LogonUser failed with error code 1385.

2011-04-14T15:44:36.4283692+10:00 Error: StackTrace: at

Microsoft.Reporting.Setup.ReportingManagedCAs.ManagementGroupDisconnectHelpe(Session session, String sqlServer, String databaseName,

string domain, String user, String password, String mgGuid, String mgDefaultName)

2011-04-14T15:44:36.4293458+10:00 Debug: ManagementGroupConnectHelper: Prepare connect MG SCOM_Management_Group

2011-04-14T15:44:37.5436464+10:00 Error: ManagementGroupConnectOrDisconnect error: Login specified as Management Group Writer Login

is already specified as writer login for another pending Management Group connect operation. Choose different login or confirm/reject previous

connect operation.

2011-04-14T15:44:37.5495060+10:00 Error: StackTrace: at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean

breakConnection)

at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj)

at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet

bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.ConsumeMetaData()

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.get_MetaData()

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.FinishExecuteReader(SqlDataReader ds, RunBehavior runBehavior, String resetOptionsString)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReaderTds(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream,

Boolean async)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream,

String method, DbAsyncResult result)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream,

String method)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteScalar()

at Microsoft.Reporting.Setup.ReportingManagedCAs.ManagementGroupConnectHelper(Session session, String sqlServer, String databaseName,

String domain, String user, String password, String logOnName, String mgGuid, String mgDefaultName)

at Microsoft.Reporting.Setup.ReportingManagedCAs.ManagementGroupConnectOrDisconnect(Session session)

CustomAction _ManagementGroupConnect returned actual error code 1603 (note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside

sandbox)

MSI (s) (AC:80) [15:44:37:595]: NOTE: custom action _ManagementGroupConnect unexpectedly closed the hInstall handle (type MSIHANDLE)

provided to it. The custom action should be fixed to not close that handle.

Action ended 15:44:37: InstallFinalize. Return value 3.

 

Now you’ll see I’ve highlighted some bits. Even though the SCOM Reporting installation wizard tells you to look for “value 3″, the actual error is

before that bit of text in the log file – which you can see I’ve highlighted in yellow.

 

 

The Solution:

In my particular scenario, I had two different problems. Firstly, since I am working down in a secure environment, the infrastructure team had configured the service accounts with Deny Logon Locally. This was a problem. Even though there’s no documentation up on TechNet regarding this, the Data Writer account must have Log On Locally rights, along with local administrator rights to the Reporting Services server where you are installing it. If you’re unsure about what rights the Data Writer and Data Reader accounts need (and there are a few) – take a look at the spreadsheet here in Kevin Holman’s blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2008/04/15/opsmgr-security-account-rights-mapping-what-accounts-need-what-privileges.aspx.

Once you’ve sorted out the correct permissions required for your service accounts – try the installation again. If it works, then that was your issue. If it doesn’t work, then you have the same problem I did and there is an extra step you need to do.

You may need to reject a Management Group from your Data Warehouse database. You will know if you need to do this by doing the following procedure. This is for SQL 2008 R2, but it should work if you have the same issue in SQL 2005 or SQL 2008. I’m assuming you’re an SQL administrator when you perform these tasks.

1. Open the SQL management console on your Data Warehouse database server, connecting to the correct instance.

2. Expand Databases -> OperationsManagerDW (or whatever your DW database is called) -> Tables.

3. Look for dbo.ManagementGroup -> right click -> Select Top 1000 Rows

4. If you have a pending management group, the ManagementGroupDefaultName field may contain the incorrect name of your management group. ConnectConfirmedDateTime will be NULL, and WriteLoginName will contain the name of the data writer account you’re trying to use. If this is your case, you need to reject this management group to give SCOM a chance of reinstalling it correctly.

 

To do this, copy the GUID out of the ManagementGroupGUID field. In the SQL Management Studio console, click on your data warehouse database, and start a New Query. Run the following query.

EXEC ManagementGroupRejectConnect ‘yourGUID’

Ensure your GUID is contained within ‘ ‘ quotes.

Execute the command, and it should clear the management group. Now have another try at installing SCOM Reporting. For me – this worked and ended several hours of frustration.

 

DBCreateWizard: Database creation failed. The database may have been incompletely created or modified.

I ran into an interesting problem at a customers’ site using the SCOM 2007 R2 DBCreateWizard when trying to create databases on SQL 2008 R2 x64 (on Windows 2008 R2).  When using SQL 2008 R2 with SCOM 2007 R2, you need to follow this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2425714 tech article to manually create the databases.  That’s all well and good, but what do you do if it doesn’t work?  Well that’s what happened to me.

My client needed to have a 70Gb OperationsManager database, and a 1.7Tb Data Warehouse Database.  By following the instructions in the Microsoft KB article, I kept getting this error:

 

Database creation failed.  The database might have been incompletely created or modified.  An error occured while trying to create the database on your SQL Server.  Check your logs for more information.

 

System.InvalidOperationsException

 

Date: 14/04/2011 11:37:44 AM
Application:
Application Version: 6.1.7221.0
Severity: Error
Message: Database creation failed. The database might have been incompletely created or modified.

System.InvalidOperationException: An error occurred while trying to create the database on your SQL Server. Check your logs for more information.
at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Setup.DBCreateWizard.Program.LaunchDBCreation()
at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Setup.DBCreateWizard.SummaryPage.BackgroundThread()

 

After searching for this error, it turns out it’s more common than I thought.  However the resolutions are quite different.  I found several articles that talked about making sure your user account has SA permissions to the SQL server.  Make sure that the a bunch of x64 DLL’s have been copied to the SupportTools folder.  But these didn’t fix my issue.

Here is how I fixed it:

On the SQL Server where you are trying to create your databases, open up the %temp% share.  This should open to something like usernameappdatalocaltemp (on Windows 2008 R2).  Look for the dbcreatewiz.log file (it might have a number like dbcreatewiz1.log depending on how many times you attempted to create the database before seeking help).  Open the log, and look for the “createdb” step.  Mine had this error.

 

11:03 AM: Creating database…
11:08 AM: CreateDB:  Attempting to create OperationsManagerDW on MYSCOMSERVERSCOMDW threw the following sql exception Timeout expired.  The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding..
11:08 AM: Database creation failed. The database might have been incompletely created or modified.
11:08 AM: System.InvalidOperationException: An error occurred while trying to create the database on your SQL Server. Check your logs for more information.
   at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Setup.DBCreateWizard.Program.LaunchDBCreation()
11:09 AM: Creating database…
11:14 AM: CreateDB:  Attempting to create OperationsManagerDW on MYSCOMSERVERSCOMDW threw the following sql exception Timeout expired.  The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding..
11:14 AM: Database creation failed. The database might have been incompletely created or modified.
11:14 AM: System.InvalidOperationException: An error occurred while trying to create the database on your SQL Server. Check your logs for more information.
   at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Setup.DBCreateWizard.Program.LaunchDBCreation()

 

You’ll see that it is attempting to create the database, but then times out.  I didn’t pick this up at first, but if you look at the top of this article, you can see how big the databases were that I was trying to create.  That is the problem.  The creation of the databases will fail if it takes too long (even though the process is still working).

The fix is to reduce (drastically) the size of your databases just to get them created.  After that, you can go into the SQL Management Studio, and increase them to the correct size required.  When I say reduce the size, I mean….  REDUCE the size.  I had to knock mine back to 1Gb to get them to create.  At least that way they were created, then I upsized them through the SQL console.

If you come across the same problem I did – I hope you find this article useful. :)