We recently had a scenario where we applied some Windows Updates to our servers. When our FAST Server for SharePoint Servers were rebooted after applying the updates the following FAST services were listed as “Dead”: QRProxy Service qrproxy SAM Admin samadmin SAM Worker samworker It should also be noted that these FAST Servers are NOT […]
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Exploratory Testing in Microsoft Test Manager
September 21, 2012 
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This is a feature you can find in the latest release of Microsoft Test Manager included with Visual Studio Ultimate 2012, Visual Studio Premium 2012 or Visual Studio Test Pro 2012. If you’re interesting in the entire feature comparison across editions you can see it here. In the screenshot above I launched Microsoft Test Manager […]
Continue reading Using Friendly DNS Names in Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management
June 27, 2012 2 Comments
If you’ve spent some time with Lab Management, specifically where you’ve leveraged Network Isolation you will have noticed the nice fully qualified domain names assigned to the external network adapter identified in the diagram below as “Computer name:”. If you want to create easier to remember names for your VMs you could create some CNAMEs in your […]
Continue readingFailed to initialize session with document engine: Unable to resolve Contentdistributor
June 22, 2012 1 Comment
If you start seeing this error (below) being logged in the Application Log on the SharePoint Server that hosts the FAST Search Content SSA. Log Name: Application Source: Microsoft-SharePoint Products-SharePoint Server Search Date: 22/06/2012 10:23:01 AM Event ID: 2567 Task Category: Content Plugin Level: Error Keywords: User: like10\_fs_cssaa Computer: SPAPP-01.like10.local Description: Failed to connect to […]
Continue readingUsing friendly DNS Names in your TFS environment with Kerberos Authentication Part 2
June 21, 2012 1 Comment
This is a continuation of Part 1 of configuring Kerberos Authentication. I’ll continue to step through enabling Kerberos Authentication for the following services: TFS 2010 Application Tier which consists of both the Web Services and Team Web Access To find out the Service Account that is relevant to this exercise in your environment, logon (or […]
Continue readingVisual Studio 2008 SP1 Team Foundation Server 2012 Compatibility GDR
June 5, 2012 6 Comments
This patch will provide compatibility for all for the Visual Studio 2008 products that connect to Team Foundation Server 11/Team Foundation Server 2012. Before you apply this patch you must ensure you’ve already applied Visual Studio 2008 SP1, and of course you must also have Team Explorer 2008 installed or this patch does not apply […]
Continue readingUsing friendly DNS Names in your TFS environment with Kerberos Authentication Part 1
May 9, 2012 2 Comments
UPDATED: June 11th, 2012 Added reference to MSA (Managed Service Accounts) UPDATED: January 14th, 2014 Added link to hotfix for Windows Server 2008 R2 to use MSAs You’re probably here because you’ve read this excellent post by Ed Blankenship. If you also want to enable Kerberos Authentication support to this configuration there are a few […]
Continue readingAdd or remove an index column with or without re-crawling
May 2, 2012 0 Comments
The Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Cumulative Update for December 2011 introduces a new procedure that enables you to add or remove an index column with minimal search downtime. You can download the hotfix at the following KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2597067 The FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Cumulative Update for December 2011 […]
Continue readingSharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services Presentation
April 24, 2012 0 Comments
Here is the PowerPoint slide deck for the BCS presentation I did tonight at the Microsoft Federal SharePoint User Group at the Microsoft Office in Ottawa, Canada. https://r.office.microsoft.com/r/rlidPowerPointEmbed?p1=1&p2=1&p3=SD25108A9ADA96C9D7!11299&p4=&ak=!ALN0So_2-HeBdk8&kip=1
Continue readingWindows Server 2012 Beta “Core” and SQL Server 2012
April 20, 2012 0 Comments
The quickest way to a failed installation of SQL Server 2012 is not to add the .NET 3.5 Framework feature and make sure you have your media or internet access for the server. In the example below I have the ISO mounted in “D:” dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /All /Source:d:\sources\sxs /LimitAccess or using PowerShell Add-WindowsFeature […]
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