I recently had a requirement to add a delegated administrator to DPM 2016. While it’s possible to configure self-service recovery, there doesn’t appear to be any way that I can configure another user to perform the delegated admin role as there is in some other System Center products.

It is possible to configure …

During a recent WSUS upgrade from an old server to a new virtual machine running Windows Server 2008 R2, I saw an issue with the server not downloading updates correctly. The server appeared to synchronise correctly, but then no updates were downloaded.

We originally saw an issue like this when we started using …

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 …

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 …

What do you think the following post from ADO.NET team blogs says?

http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/10/29/update-on-linq-to-sql-and-linq-to-entities-roadmap.aspx

Back in April this year I gave a talk on SQL Server 2008 and one of the aspects I covered was the Entity Framework. It was hard to say at that point …