We’ve recently seen an issue running Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role installed on an Acer 6593G laptop. We’d updated the BIOS to the latest version available from the Acer site (1.16 at the time of writing) and Server 2008 R2 would no longer boot once the Hyper-V role was installed. Rolling back the BIOS …

I have an HP ML115 G5 acting as a Home Server which started showing disk related issues as the disks approached being full. Following a tip from Rik, I updated the BIOS to the latest version available from the HP site. While this seems to have fixed the disk related issues, updating the BIOS seemed to cause some BMC …

I recently ran into this issue while trying to move a series of sub-sites to site collections on a SharePoint farm. In order to achieve part of the process, I’d scripted the deletion of the sub-site tree using the stsadm –o deleteweb command once I’d exported it as there were quite a number of sub-sites and I wanted to …

If you need to remove an instance of SQL Reporting Services from a scale out deployment, but for some reason cannot contact the instance you wish to remove (e.g. the computer has failed or been rebuilt without removing it from the scale out deployment first) you can do this manually from one of the other computers in …

If you store large files in SharePoint 2007 and are using webdav to access them (Explorer View uses webdav for example), you may be seeing the following error: Cannot Copy : Cannot read from the source file or disk If so, this relates to a registry key which is set on the local machine to limit the maximum file …

This is something of a follow-up to Richard’s post about phones last month. I have an HTC Touch Pro 2 which came equipped with Windows Mobile 6.1. I used to have an HTC P3600 (or whatever it was called from Orange at the time) running Windows Mobile 5 which did me quite happily for a couple of years, but I found it …

To add domain users to a local machine group using Group Policy, we need to use the Restricted Groups feature. For the example shown below, I’ll be using a Windows Server 2003 domain functional level. Create a new global/universal security group in Active Directory to contain the users which you wish to add to the …

Today’s highlights from the sessions I attended: One of the new features of SharePoint 2010 is Access Services – we at Black Marble have been doing some work using Access Services (see Richard’s blog post for more details, along with the Access 2010 demo on Channel9), which Robert and I presented during the first …

A few more highlights from the sessions I saw: The new taxonomy services in SharePoint 2010 look superb. The ability to be able to centrally define terms for use by the end users, along with allowing both open (i.e. read-write to the end user) and closed (i.e. read-only to the end user) term stores looks very promising …

A few highlights from today’s talks: With SharePoint 2010, we no longer have a Shared Service Provider (SSP), instead we now have service application instead. All of the applications benefit from an internal load balancing scheme (fault tolerant round robin load balancing), meaning that as long as you start a service …