I recently noticed that some of the Microsoft Teams that we had in use exhibited different behaviour to others that had been created more recently. ‘Recently’ (for varying definitions of ‘recent’) created Teams allowed users to edit and delete their messages, whereas a few older Teams did not. The older Teams were all …

It was great to see that the Windows Admin Center is now being updated automatically with other Windows Server OS updates when I updated the server on which it is installed the other day: One fewer thing to have to check for manually!

I was recently in the position that I needed to rebuild a workstation at a remote location, but wanted to end up with it joined to the domain, and able to install software via the SCCM Software Center. Enter Offline Domain Join (djoin.exe)! Offline Domain Join allows the creation of a machine account and the …

Some time ago I created an System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) application to deploy FileZilla for users. Recently I created an updated application that upgraded FileZilla (using the usual ‘uninstall the old version, then install the new version’ method), which gave me an error when the application was upgraded: …

Background Traditionally the approach to multiple SSL IIS websites hosted on a server involved multiple sites each with its own certificate bound to a single IP address/port combination. If you didn’t mind using non standard SSL ports, then you could use a single IP address on the server, but the experience was not …

Since upgrading to Windows 8.1 at home, I’ve had issues with backing up the computer using my Home Server (not that I helped by introducing a GPT disk and a UEFI rig at the same time…). The symptoms were that the client backup process appeared stuck at 1% progress for a long time before eventually failing. I finally …

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 …

The default communication scheme for many of the SharePoint 2010 Service Applications is ‘http’ (i.e. unsecured). This can be changed easily in the GUI by selecting the service application and clicking the ‘publish’ ribbon button: It should however be noted that a number of Service Application communication schemes run …