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  • Cross Flashing a Dell PERC H200 BIOS to Support Larger SATA Disks

    author Andy Dawson calendar Aug 8, 2013 · 2 min read · Hardware Upgrade  ·
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    The latest firmware for the Dell PERC H200 still doesn’t support SATA disks of greater than 2.2TB. In fact the card cannot even detect SATA drives that are larger than this.  As the PERC H200 is essentially a rebadged LSI 9211-8i card however, the firmware and BIOS from that card can be flashed onto the PERC H200 to …
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  • SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview and SQL Server 20143 CTP1

    author Andy Dawson calendar Jul 5, 2013 · 3 min read · Sharepoint SQL Windows Server 2012 R2  ·
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    Following the recent release of Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview and SQL Server 2014 CTP1, I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if I could get SharePoint 2013 running on the combination of these two previews. Most of the issues I encountered were around the product installers for SharePoint and the …
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  • Changing from Incandescent to LED Lighting

    author Andy Dawson calendar Mar 17, 2013 · 4 min read · Energy Saving  ·
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    Posts on this blog are usually IT related so I thought it might make a change to write about something that, while still technology related, is a little different…

    As some of my colleagues will attest to, I firmly believe in a well insulated house and buying products for the home that are as efficient as possible. My …


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  • More UK TechDays on Windows 8 and System Center 2012

    author Andy Dawson calendar Feb 18, 2013 · 1 min read · System Center UK IT Camps Windows 8 Windows Server 2012  ·
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    Rik, Andrew and I will be at some of the upcoming UK TechDays that are being held.

    I can’t recommend these days highly enough and every attendee that I have spoken to at previous events has found them both thoroughly enjoyable and useful.

    Rik, Andrew and I will be at the System Center 2012 SP1 IT Pro camp tomorrow …


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  • Setting SharePoint 2013 User Profile Service Application Permissions Using PowerShell

    author Andy Dawson calendar Nov 23, 2012 · 1 min read · Deployment PowerShell Sharepoint User Profile Service Application  ·
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    My last post about the SharePoint 2013 MySite Newsfeed and required additional permissions on the User Profile Service Application dealt with adding the required permissions to the UPSA using the SharePoint 2013 GUI. Alternatively, you can add the required permissions using PowerShell:

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  • SharePoint 2013 MySite Newsfeed displays "There was a problem retrieving the latest activity. Please try again later"

    author Andy Dawson calendar Oct 30, 2012 · 2 min read · Deployment MySite MySite Newsfeed PowerShell Service Applications Sharepoint  ·
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    This is an issue that we've been bumping up against and have seen a number of other users seeing the same problem with SharePoint 2013 implementations.

    When looking at the 'Everyone' tab on a user's MySite, the following message is displayed:

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  • CRM 2011 Fetch-Based Reports Fail with 'rsProcessingAborted'

    author Andy Dawson calendar Oct 28, 2012 · 3 min read · CRM Deployment Kerberos Reporting Services SPN  ·
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    I recently saw a CRM 2011 instance which had had and issue with SQL Reporting Services. To correct the issues with the Reporting Services server, which was separate to the CRM 2011 server, SQL Reporting Services has been completely reinstalled on the server. Following this action, there were a few steps that needed …
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  • VAMT 3.0 Crashes on Launch

    author Andy Dawson calendar Aug 16, 2012 · 1 min read · .NET Framework Remote management Windows Server 2008 R2  ·
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    I've installed VAMT 3.0 to work with Windows 8 and came across an issue where it crashed on launch:

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  • WSUS Not Downloading Updates

    author Andy Dawson calendar Jul 19, 2012 · 1 min read · SQL Server SQL SQL Windows Server 2008 R2 WSUS  ·
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    During a recent WSUS upgrade from an old server to a new virtual machine running Windows Server 2008 R2, I saw an issue with the server not downloading updates correctly. The server appeared to synchronise correctly, but then no updates were downloaded.

    We originally saw an issue like this when we started using …


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  • CRM 2011 Update Rollup 6 (and beyond) timeout

    author Andy Dawson calendar Jul 12, 2012 · 1 min read · CRM Registry SQL Server SQL SQL Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2  ·
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    On an instance of CRM 2011 that was being patched to Update Rollup 6 prior to patching to Update Rollup 8, the following error occurred:

    System.Exception: Action Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Common.Update.DBUpdateAction failed. ---> System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Timeout expired.  The timeout period elapsed prior to …


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