Microsoft seems to have snuck in a new tool to help diagnose/troubleshoot issues in SharePoint. It is part of the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit v2.0 and provides SharePoint administrators with a unified interface that can be used to gather relevant information from a farm, display the results in a meaningful way, identify performance […]
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Ottawa IT/Code Camp Session Resources
April 16, 2011 
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If you are attending my session today about Visual Studio Lab Management titled “Kill Bugs Faster and Build and Run Your Virtual Test Lab Using Microsoft Visual Studio Lab Management 2010” here are some resources to help you get up to speed. VHD Test Drive – Visual Studio Lab Management Lab Management (pre-release) 2010 […]
Continue readingDell Precision M6500 Windows Server 2008 R2 w/SP1 VM performance issue with Hyper-V Role enabled
April 7, 2011 1 Comment
I have had the extreme pleasure of using one of Microsoft’s Dell Precision M6500 Mobile Workstation for TechDays 2009, TechDays 2010 and now for the upcoming Ottawa CodeCamp (Ottawa IT Day for the IT Pro). I have had the machine a few weeks now and had plenty of time to spend with this machine….initially […]
Continue readingReady to update System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 with SP1
April 5, 2011 1 Comment
As you may remember Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management leverages SCVMM R2 2008 and now that SP1 has been released you can update your installation with all of the service pack goodness. Updates you should have already applied Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 SP1 […]
Continue readingThe lab service account available on this machine is not valid
April 1, 2011 0 Comments
If you receive the following error chances are the lab service account on the domain has either expired or is locked out. Here is the error you will receive on your test machines, selecting repair has no effect until the password/account issue is resolved: Cannot connect to the controller on ‘tfs.lab.local:6901’. The lab service […]
Continue readingVisual Studio 2010 and MSDN Licensing White Paper (updated)
March 25, 2011 8 Comments
Microsoft has released an updated copy of their whitepaper (Published 8/5/2011) which provides an overview of the Visual Studio 2010 product line, including MSDN subscriptions, and the licensing requirements for those products in common deployment scenarios. It is available in DOC, PDF and XPS formats. Here are the list of changes for August 2011: Addition […]
Continue readingSharePoint Server 2010 Configuration NOT using the Wizard (PPTX)
March 24, 2011 0 Comments
Here is the slide deck for the session I gave at the Ottawa Windows Server User Group on the evening of March 22nd, 2011. Session Description This session for the IT Pro will go through some of the configuration of SharePoint Server 2010 when you don’t the “Configuration Wizard”. We shall look at […]
Continue readingUser Profile Service Connections Blank
March 7, 2011 0 Comments
More than likely you applied a CU, but at the moment I am not able to determine what causes this to occur. UPS Connections Query Empty (After CU is applied) Grant Local Administrator Privileges to Database Access Account (on the machine hosting the UPSA) Reboot Server Start User Profile Service Application (in Central Admin) After […]
Continue readingFAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 CU
February 11, 2011 0 Comments
If you have SharePoint Server 2010 deployed, running FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010 and have deployed the October 2010 or December 2010 CU for SharePoint Server you may experience the following issue: If you create a new Site Collection in a Web Application which is connected to a FAST Query SSA and specify a […]
Continue readingNetwork Isolation and Domain Joined Machines
February 9, 2011 4 Comments
If you decide to build an environment in Lab Manager which has a server performing the domain controller role, when you are joining the machines to the domain make sure you don’t rename them. If you do you will get “Additional Information” messages displayed about the state of those machines. Network isolation is complete. […]
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