I recently installed SharePoint 2013 on a Windows Server 2012 development environment. I simply mounted an ISO to create a virtual drive. The installation was successful, but now every time I log into the server, I get the following error: Windows cannot find e:\prerequisiteinstaller.exe. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.…
Welcome to my "Wally-Palooza 2014" blog post! If you have been working in Configuration Manager (or SMS) for years I’m sure that you know Wally Mead. If not, allow me to introduce him with this statement – I believe that Wally is pound-for-pound the best Configuration Manager advocate on the planet. If you don’t know…
Planning an upgrade to, or a clean install of System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2? Why not pre-stage the new Microsoft Monitoring Agent 2013 Update 1? If you’ve been reading about the new Microsoft Monitoring Agent 2013, you know that it’ the new agent for Operations Manager 2012 R2, but did you know that the…
Today Microsoft Office 365 suffered an outage for access to the Admin Portal, portal.microsoftonline.com. While this outage was somewhat troublesome it got me thinking that having alternate URLs to you services is worth knowing. This outage did not impact any of the core services, Exchange, SharePoint or Lync Online so most users probably did not…
You guess it, they are not compatible. When I try to load our CRM 2011 application in my IE 11 browser, it attempts to load the mobile web page. That’s because the Microsoft team decided that it might be a good idea to change the User Agent string in IE 11. I disagree. There are…
So excited to be upgrading our sites to SharePoint 2013. Also excited to upgrade my desktop to Windows 8.1 and IE 11. Only to be hit with reality. Anytime I attempt to author or administer any of my SharePoint 2013 sites with IE 11, I get the following error: An error has occurred with the…
After upgrading my SharePoint 2010 site collection to SharePoint 2013, I was working on updating my Master pages and Page Layouts. Part of that involved some cleanup of some old master pages and page layouts. However, when I attempted to delete one of my old SharePoint 2010 master pages, I received the following error:…
The Dallas System Center user group (DFWSMUG) is re-re-launching with a great event this January 10th! (The original re-launch had to be postponed because the DFW metroplex was shut down with a snow-pocalypse). Huge thanks go to Eric Morrison and Allen Wat for their help in transitioning this user group to it’s new leader: Matt…
Note/Disclaimer: This is not officially supported by Microsoft. Microsoft states that SP13 Service Pack 1 may have support for R2, but this is not released yet nor do we have a release date. While not supported, installing on Server 2012 R2 is still a requirement for some organizations and they weigh out the risks against…
This blog post is probably not going to be relevant to my regular readers, but should be helpful item to have out there for the search engines for anyone else who runs into this! For Christmas I received a V1Connection from my family (shout-out to Michelle, Alex and the crew!). I’ve owned a valentine one…
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