The next version (or renaming) of BPOS, the Microsoft Online Business Suite (SharePoint, Exchange, OCS which is now Lync) is looking pretty shiny. Looks to hit in early 2011 and also encouraging, it looks like Canada won’t be the forgotten stepchild that gets the products and services 6 months later this time. Details This [...]
If your SharePoint 2010 upgrade is stuck and you get the following in Central Administration \database is up to date, but some sites are not completely upgraded\”. Note, there is a whole lot of misinformation out there about performing/reinitializing an upgrade by using the psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace v2v (or b2b) commands. However, this is [...]
Ok, I’ve run into this enough times now that I figure folks may not stumble across the Technet article that has already discussed this (
Ok this one is kinda lame… but alas, the fix is simple. My ultimate goal was to perform a backup of a SharePoint WSS database on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server, with the intent of performing a database restore, to a new SharePoint 2010 Foundation Farm, so that I could perform a Database Attach [...]
We spent a little time this week putting together a list of what we believe are the benefits customers get, working with itgroove. You’ll notice we didn’t put things like \we’re wicked smart\” or \”we’re great haxors\”. We tried to compile a list of value we provide to a customer, based on our approach to [...]
By Robert Dick today… I had real fun with a DELL R300 server after a motherboard replacement. Learned bunches but first a little background. What originally went wrong? The Dell R300 \lost\” the MAC addresses on the twin onboard NIC’s and we couldn’t get them back. ESXi lost its networking [...]
Notes: Don’t ask why the SharePoint server is a DC. It is not recommended that a SharePoint Server is a DC, but in some situations we don’t have a choice… Don’t ask why we had to demote and then re-promote the SharePoint server as a DC. You should try to avoid a demotion/promotion of a [...]
