Exchange 2013 – Content Indexing during Migration
After the correct updates have finally been released last week (Exchange 2010 SP3 and Exchange 2013 CU1) it was time to get some Guinea Pigs… sorry, “Test Users” migrated over to Exchange 2013. Some of the very small mailboxes were fine, but when it came to a real users mailbox the progressed appeared awfully slow. After taking [...]
SharePoint 2010: Classic to Claims Migration Gotcha
I’ve been migrating classic mode SharePoint 2010 sites to claims sites for a while now, so much that I even have a script to do it for me. However, for some reason I have never come across the problem I encountered today. The documentation on converting a classic mode web application to a claims based [...]
Office Web Apps 2013 and SharePoint Issue relating to SSL
Came across and issue during the deployment of Office Web Apps 2013 when hooking up with SharePoint which caused some confusion. Issue: Error messages from the web apps when activating through SharePoint documents: Word Document : “Sorry, there was a problem and we can’t open this document. If this happens again, try opening the document [...]
SharePoint 2010 Development Machine with Office 2013
If your trying to setup or change the configuration of SharePoint on a development machines which has Office 2013 install you may encounter some strange errors relating to types such as: Failed to call GetTypes on assembly Microsoft.Office.InfoPath.Server, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c. Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.Office.InfoPath, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c’ or one of its [...]
SharePoint 2010 State Service Database
I recently found a small bug in the SharePoint 2010 PowerShell comlets for creating the state service database using “New-SPStateServiceDatabase”. You will receive the rather unhelpful error message “Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object”. I believe this is a generic WCF error as that’s all I was able to [...]
Lync 2013 – Front End Server ‘Starting’
Upgrading Lync to 2013 recently I came across a problem where the front end service simply wouldn’t start but would get stuck in “Starting” mode. I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out what the problem was and got caught up in some false information on the technet forums that it was [...]
SharePoint 2013 Pre-Requisites Configuration Error on Server 2012
As I started to configure our new SharePoint 2013 farm today I came across a problem when running the pre-requisites tool when it was attempting to install “Application Server and IIS Web Server roles” which resulted in very little in terms of error messages apart form “configuration error”. After much searching and reading on Technet [...]
Ubuntu easy_install missing
Really just a note for myself, but if anyone else is trying to figure out how to install “easy_install” in Ubuntu the golden command (which I constantly forget) is: sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
Coffee Break: Windows Server 2012 First Look
One of the key things I’m liking with Windows Server 2012, is the new Server Manager. The new version is alot more useful than that of Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 in that it appears to work out of the box, where as the previous involved alot of “tweaking” to get WinRM working. This [...]
Unable to use SQL Aliases in IIS Manager or Visual Studio
I Have always had a problem with IIS Manager using SQL Aliases when using the built in .Net membership providers (mainly cause its handy to test and setup the initial FBA user) but never managed to get down to the cause of the issue, just took it as one of those things. Luckily it was never [...]
