So here it goes, I’m officially committing to writing this series of blog posts. I thought about doing it all in one post and quickly realize this was way to long to be a single post. So, I’m going to break this up into a series of blog posts. Currently this is what I’m thinking (although it’s subject to change … Read More
SharePoint 2010 with Office 2013 Installed on Server
Just a quick blog post, if you have a SharePoint Development Server that you happen to have installed Office 2013 on, you may run into issues when installing a Cumulative Update. I recently installed Office 2013 on my SharePoint 2010 Development Server. Tonight I went to update to the February 2013 Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010. The installation worked just … Read More
Error running SharePoint Configuration Wizard on KB2687564 – October 2012 CU
Over this past weekend I was helping a client with some issues with the 4-server SharePoint 2010 farm. As part of the process we decided to go ahead and put the October 2012 CU into their farm. I know, test in a dev/test environment first, we didn’t follow best practice. We were in a bit of an emergency/time crunch and … Read More
My Experience Installing SharePoint 2013
Here it goes, my first installation of SharePoint 2013… A little precursor about my environment I have a custom build “desktop” machine that is running a 4-core i7 HT processor, 24 GB of RAM and a 2TB Raid 1+0 array I’m running Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V to host all my virtual machines, this includes a 4 core, 7 GB … Read More
Audio Conferencing Solutions with Office 365
So, I signed up for an Office 365 account a few months back. Lync offers a great solution for hosting online meetings. However, one downside is there isn’t any options included with Office 365 for integrating a telephone audio conference with your online meeting/built in Lync audio. They do offer an option though, the capabilities are there to integrated with … Read More
A Day With Windows 8 (and SharePoint)
Hardware/Software 13 MacBook Pro, 120 SSD Hard Drive, 8 GB Ram Software Installed: [Update 3/5/2012] This has all been done on Windows 8 Consumer Preview, I haven’t had a chance to give this all a try on Windows 8 Server Beta yet. Microsoft programs that seem to be working fine: Apps you would expect: Office 2010 Suite, Live Writer, Live … Read More
VMWare Workstation, Windows 8 Customer Preview, Windows 8 Server Beta
Just a quick FYI on installing any of the Windows 8 bits on VMWare Workstation. I was trying to install both Server and Desktop OS in VMWare tonight and was getting the error: couldn’t read the from unattend.xml. VMWare Workstation tries to use it’s own unattended install that is mounted to the VM in the form of a floppy disk … Read More
User Profile Synchronization, New Connection Domain Container Won’t Expand
The other day I was working with a client setting up the UPS Connection to their Active Directory.Everything was going fine until we tried to expand the Active Directory tree to select the appropriate Organizational Units to synchronize. We would click to expand it, and ever about 5 minutes we would receive an error stating, The operation was aborted because … Read More