A colleague of mine was having issues with the new OpsMgr 2012 web console that it would return to the login prompt after a period of time. This would represent an issue for organizations who want to display this web page on views which would not be regularly interacted with (such as Network Operations Center…
Recently has some trouble getting SQL configured for a RC2 lab, a few of the requirements have been updated. Below are the various requirements for correctly installing SQL for ConfigMgr 2012 RC2. Make sure to review the supported configurations on the TechNet site. SQL Server Versions SQL Server 2008 SP2 with CU7 (Standard or Enterprise)…
Recently, after a patch was applied to the web server, some of our larger, more intensive applications starting throwing the following fairly cryptic exception: ERROR: System.Web.HttpException: The URL-encoded form data is not valid. System.InvalidOperationException: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object. This is due to an update (MS11-100) that was…
Fellow MVP Kent Agerlund has a great post on the new content library in Configuration Manager 2012. This topic came up on a email distribution list today. Check out his post here.
I wanted to test out the new PST Capture tool, http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/01/30/pst-time-to-walk-the-plank.aspx, specifically for migrating PST content to an Exchange Online mailbox. I recently setup my lab environment with a Hybrid Office 365 deployment. First off the documentation for the tool, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh781036.aspx, from the documentation the tool actually has three components: PST Capture Central Service At…
With a type-per-hierarchy approach to data mapping, one (or more) of the columns represents a classifier. In this scheme, the classifier field acts like metadata. This can also be a useful approach in ASP.NET MVC for designing a model which using CSS, needs to be displayed slightly differently depending on the value of a particular…
Today via the Office 365 Blog, http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft_office_365_blog/archive/2012/01/30/update-on-blackberry-business-cloud-services-for-microsoft-office-365.aspx, Microsoft announces the full availability of the BlackBerry Business Cloud Services! This is a big step to allow companies that still heavily rely on BlackBerry devices used by end-users a way to move to Office 365. Another big announcement came from the great guys at the Exchange Team…
Catapult’s very own Rachel Switzer posted about upgrading the CommunityKit for SharePoint Enahanced Blog Edition to SharePoint 2010. In that post she mentions a couple of known issues, including the archive count which displays a count for all posts, not just those that have been published. Fixing the issue is actually pretty simple. In…
Since I started with Operations Manager 2007 this has been a commonly asked question – “How can you tell what alerts are created by a rule versus those that are created by a monitor?” (This is important because you generally do not want to close alerts which are generated by a monitor – see this…
This is a repost from my personal site: I was having a discussion with a colleague of mine regarding use of the using statement as it applies to WCF calls. I always wrap using statements around any IDisposable (except in a few cases, like instantiating the Unity container instance for the application). It turns out…
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