During a recent upgrade of ADFS from 2.0 to 3.0, we saw an interesting issue publishing the ADFS 3.0 proxy through TMG 2010. The ADFS 2.0 proxy was published via TMG using a non-preauthenticating publishing web rule which had worked happily since ADFS was first used. When ADFS 3.0 was installed ad configured, the …

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 …

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 …