A while back we built out some conference room kiosk’s (discussed at http://cameronfuller.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A231E4EB0417CB76!1509.entry) which display the status of a conference room using an Outlook Web Access calendar. We have run into issues where the connection to the OWA server would be lost and/or when other issues would occur which would cause these to stop functioning.…
This team blog will leverage the skills, knowledge and expertise of Catapult’s seasoned team of Enterprise Project Management experts. Here, you’ll find technical tips and tricks, process ideas and suggestions, lessons learned, and expert opinions around Microsoft Office Project Professional, Microsoft Office Project Server, and Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server. Thank you for your visit,…
Unfortunately, Microsoft has cancelled this year’s BI conference in Seattle, WA. More on the reasons at the official Microsoft BI Blog. Microsoft will cover BI technology and features at other conferences this year such as TechEd, the World Wide Partner conference, the SharePoint conference and SQL Server PASS. Currently, the Microsoft BI conference will be…
I made a post over a week ago talking about extending the Data Profiling task and in there I just cover the some of the basics on my methods for extending it and what goals I had in mind. It actually sparked a few e-mails and so, due to interest, I am going to…
We ran into a situation where SQL jobs started failing on a SQL server in a DMZ domain seemingly out of the blue. As background, we have a situation where: Domain-A trusts Domain-B, but Domain-B doesn’t trust Domain-A (This is common in a DMZ configuration) SQL Server is installed on a Domain-A machine (This is…
Before anyone jumps off a bridge, it is not as bad as the headline sounds; stay calm, step down from the ledge and we can work this out. Background: I got tired of running PerformancePoint in a VPC all of the time and I decided it was time to install it locally. I am…
Server virtualization is a hot topic these days (even if you haven’t heard of it before). While IT professionals have been familiar with the concept for some time, it is still relatively new and obscure for most business people. Historically, computer servers have been dedicated to running a single operating system (OS) and typically serve…
There are new service names in the R2 version of OpsMgr. The following is the mapping of the new R2 service names and what they map to for the RTM/SP1 version: OpsMgr RC2 Service Name OpsMgr RTM & SP1 Name System Center Data Access OpsMgr SDK Service System Center Management OpsMgr Health Service System Center…
Server 2008 – The Systems Administrator has set policies to prevent this installation Today I was onsite at a client and ran across this when trying to install WebDAV X64 on a Server 2008. I figured out how to resolve this by doing the following steps. Error Message: Edit registry Click Type Regedit Click Continue…
While doing a test deployment on the upcoming OpsMgr R2 release I was debugging why some of my agents were not deploying and I couldn’t find my agent installation logs to see what was causing the issue. These are created on the management server which the agent will be reporting to. So as an example,…
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