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 …

SharePoint can use multiple domains for user authentication, however I recently came across an issue when setting up an extranet using this scenario.

The steps for setting up SharePoint 2007 to use multiple domains for user authentication are relatively simple:

• Add the second domain as a user profile source in the SSP …

To add domain users to a local machine group using Group Policy, we need to use the Restricted Groups feature.  For the example shown below, I’ll be using a Windows Server 2003 domain functional level.

1. Create a new global/universal security group in Active Directory to contain the users which you wish to add to the …

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:

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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 …

Yesterday I finally got around to installing SCVMM 2008 beta onto a virtual machine (mainly to help us with some virtual machine migrations we've got coming up).  I must say that I think SCVMM 2008 beta is very nice indeed!

On my Vista machine I use Tore Lervik's Hyper-V Monitor Gadget for Windows Sidebar, and have …