If you use SharePoint, you’ll know that some mechanism to wake up the hosted sites after the application pools are recycled overnight is very helpful (essential even) for the end user experience. I’ve compiled a version of SPWakeUp for SharePoint 2016, which can be downloaded from …

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.

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 …

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 …

Today I had to run aspnet_regiis -ga domain\user to grant a specific domain user account access to the IIS metabase and other directories that are used by IIS. The server in question is running Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 edition and after running aspnet_iisreg from the C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 …