Modifying the URL used for CRM 2011 after installation can be achieved using the following steps:

• Update the IIS bindings for the CRM 2011 website on the server running CRM to the new value you want to use

• Open IIS Manager

• Select the Microsoft Dynamics CRM website

• Click ‘Bindings’ in the action panel at the …

While building a portion of our demo SharePoint 2010 farm, I encountered an error when publishing an Access 2010 database to a SharePoint 2010 Access Services site.

The error which was shown was ‘ did not respond. Either the server does not exist, Microsoft Access Services are not enabled on the server, or the server …

During a recent SharePoint upgrade using the database attach method, I saw the following recorded in the upgrade error log:

[powershell] [PerWebUpgradeAction (4.0.10.0)] [INFO] [13/04/2011 15:55:48]: SPSite Url=http://intranet.domain.com
[powershell] [PerWebUpgradeAction (4.0.10.0)] [WARNING] [13/04/2011 15:55:48]: …

In SharePoint 2007 there seemed to be no easy way to work out which site template was used to create a site (particularly for the end user). Solutions existed using stsadm, or by uploading a custom page to SharePoint, but unless you were an admin, these routes are likely to be closed off to you.

Things are a little …

When creating the PerformancePoint Service Application, there is no way to control the name of the database that is created, not even when using PowerShell to create the Service Application. The database that gets created is in the form

_GUID

which for some reason a good many DBAs are not too keen on!

The database can …

The above two errors hit me recently while I was trying to get a CRM 4.0 development environment installed for some upcoming work.

The first error shows up when the CRM 4.0 installer is checking the server configuration of the computer on which it is being installed as one of the final steps before installation …

We’ve seen some examples of users being unable to log into Windows Live Messenger (both 2009 and 2011) recently with the error 80072f7d being returned.

Users who are able to make a connection to the internet outside our TMG firewall have been successful in logging in, even when they returned to the office and were once …

I recently saw some disk related errors on my Windows Home Server. Following the usual course of action, which is to check the disks using the folowing batch file:

net stop pdl
net stop whsbackup
chkdsk D: /x /r 
chkdsk C: /x /r
for /d %%1 in (C:\fs\*) do start chkdsk /x /r %%1

all seemed fine. Only minor disk problems …

This error normally occurs due to one of the following two possible causes:

• Not enough disk space is available on the protected machine to store a backup of the system state files
• The Windows Server Backup feature is not installed on the protected machine

The latter is an easy one to solve; simply install the …