recover / restore a windows 2008 server, via vmware server and system state

recover / restore a windows 2008 server

this is vmware server hosted virtual machine , co-work installed a wireless modem (3G) driver on it. the next day it stopped responding .  the server keeps telling me a server kernel file is missing, and rebooting in a circle.

luckily he did a vmware snapshot ( only 1 snapshot in vmware server 2.0 ?),  before the changes...

so I reverted to the snapshot .... the server 2008 started fine ,... but I can't open the SCOM 2007 SP1 console. it crashed on a .net error.

I tried sfc /scannow on this windows 2008 server

but we need SCOM working, its the whole purpose of this server.

we had this server's last sunday's windows server backup.

I decidied to do a system restore of system state.

hark.... wbadmin cmd line options, I will list all versions of windows server backup and then use the correct version number to start the restore , it took about 2 hours in this case, and luckily there is no error in the system state restore error log

after a restart, the SCOM 2007 SP1 console is working again.

there is a problem with the SDK service then, it said it can't write to the security log.

so in gpedit.msc

change the users' permission to be able to do security audit.