I’m attending the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas – it’s been an interesting first day with some notable announcements: A public beta of SharePoint 2010 will be available in November, with RTM in H1 2010. The new version of SharePoint Designer for SharePoint 2010 will be a free download. Microsoft …

One of the issues I’ve seen during our migration of virtual machines to our new Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster relates to network load balancing (NLB). We have a number of NLB setups running which will need migrating in time. My first test migration of a pair of NLB virtual machines (actually, technically a …

At Black Marble, we’re in the process of migrating some of our virtual machines to a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster. The process of migrating machines from a single Hyper-V host to a Hyper-V cluster is not quite as straightforward as migration of a machine from one single host to another. In addition, our …

One of the questions I’ve been asked a few times recently is along the lines of “I’d like to see all of my outstanding tasks shown to me in one place, how can I do this?” This in particular seems to be something that applies to tasks as SharePoint stores tasks assigned to you in the site in which they’ve been assigned …

I’ve recently been looking at PerformancePoint again. During the setup of my initial PerformancePoint test server, I hit an issue when looking at the Dashboard Designer: The error occurs after loading the Dashboard Designer and following the instructions onscreen to ‘refresh to load dashboards’. When I hit the refresh …

I’ve been trying to install a VSTO application from a ClickOnce deployment and keep seeing the error “The required version of the .NET Framework is not installed on this computer.” I’ve seen this in particular on Windows 7 beta and now the Release Candidate as well. The solution is actually a slight extension of what …

One of the SharePoint farms we’ve built recently runs on Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. As usual, the installation is a least privileged account setup, with individual accounts running the various services and app pools. The farm is also patched to the latest level. We’ve experienced one or two issues with …

We run a lot of virtual machines at Black Marble. Our virtual machines run on Hyper-V and we’ve got things setup so we can connect to them from desktop machines within Black Marble. I was a little perturbed therefore when I got the following error shown when I tried to connect to one of the virtual machines in use: …

Note: The instruction below refer to Windows Server 2008. Windows Server 2008 R2 has an 'allow spoofing' checkbox which should be used instead. When setting up NLB in a virtualised environment, there’s an extra step that you might need to take to get everything working that doesn’t seem to be mentioned very often. …

System Center Operations Manager doesn’t seem to provide an easy way (correct me if I’m wrong here) to find out what database server and database name it is using. Should you ever need to find out, log onto your Management Server, start regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations …