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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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: 1 2 3#Grab a reference to the …

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: and the following entries appear in the SharePoint logs: Failure retrieving …

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 …

I've installed VAMT 3.0 to work with Windows 8 and came across an issue where it crashed on launch: Despite there being no mention of it on the VAMT 3.0 requirements page, it actually requires .NET 3.5. Once installation of .NET 3.5 was complete, VAMT 3.0 started correctly.

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 …

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 …