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 …

On an instance of CRM 2011 that was being patched to Update Rollup 6 prior to patching to Update Rollup 8, the following error occurred: System.Exception: Action Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Common.Update.DBUpdateAction failed. ---> System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to …

Modifying the URL used for CRM 2011 after installation can be achieved using the following steps: Update the IIS bindings for the CRM 2011 website on the server running CRM to the new value you want to use Open IIS Manager Select the Microsoft Dynamics CRM website Click ‘Bindings’ in the action panel at the right of …

System Center Operations Manager doesn’t seem to provide an easy way (correct me if I’m wrong here) to find out what database server and database name it is using. Should you ever need to find out, log onto your Management Server, start regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations …