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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …