The root cause of WannaCry is budgetary, and therefor political
I don’t typically politicise my technical Twitter account, nor this blog, but some technical problems are political. It is impossible to engage with security in any depth without confronting political...
View ArticleHyper-V Manager over VPN may fail if the server is VMM-managed
About a year ago John Howard published guidance on how to get Hyper-V Manager to connect to Hyper-V servers over VPN. His network monitoring and suggestion to change the VPN connection IP settings so...
View ArticleWindows Deployment Services trumps Internet Connection Sharing
I imagine the responses to this post’s title will fall in to one of three categories: What’s Windows Deployment Services? What’s Internet Connection Sharing? Why on earth would you use both in one...
View ArticleSuperflows are here, with authoring in due course
Tony Soper, a Senior Technical Writer for Microsoft, has been revealing some interesting new content recently. Both System Center Configuration Manager and Forefront Threat Management Gateway (the...
View ArticleMAC duplication issues with captured VMs and WDS
I’ve previously reported problems with MAC duplication on Hyper-V host external network connections on Windows Server 2008 R2, which I’ve never fully resolved, although we have been successfully...
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Fixing the Usage and Health Data Collection Service Application Proxy
Unfortunately I’ve found a problem with our development build, or rather, with SharePoint 2010. You may notice that the Usage and Health Data Collection Proxy is Stopped after deploying it in your...
View ArticleScheduled Sitemap Generation for SharePoint 2010 Websites
As promised in my SharePoint 2010 SEO Analysis with the IIS SEO Toolkit post, while the IIS.NET SEO Toolkit does an excellent job of generating an initial sitemap and providing a nice GUI for ad hoc...
View ArticleUser Profile Synchronisation and the SharePoint Server 2010 December 2010...
I finally tested the SharePoint Server 2010 December 2010 CU package over the last couple of nights. The good news is that it actually worked (I’ve had trouble with August and October) and it has a...
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Inside Manage Patch Status
Back in August, I stumbled across a new type of DCOM 10016 error in SharePoint 2010, caused by the Product Version Job timer job. When I found the error, I was primarily concerned with keeping my event...
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Testing Manage Patch Status
In my last post I discussed how the Product Version Job timer job uses the Windows Installer Service to query the installed state of SharePoint 2010 servers and how the Manage Patch Status page in...
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Conficker Protection Breaks Search
A couple of months ago I was happily building a client’s SharePoint Server 2010 farm when I stumbled at Search. The Service Application provisioned fine, but when I pushed out topology changes I...
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Adding Drivers to Windows Deployment Services Boot Images
A while back, I posted an article on building a SharePoint development environment in Hyper-V, which included a part on automating deployment of the host machine. Although we’ve now moved to VMware...
View ArticleBeware of Multiple Boots with OEM Protection Tools
I aim to keep this post reasonably quick, because I’ve lost enough time to this issue already and I want to get some other posts written up soon, but this is one of those things that I should probably...
View ArticleMoving an Office 365 DirSync/ADFS domain from one Azure AD tenant to another
When helping our clients with Office 365 deployments, we sometimes find that DirSync has been associated with a trial tenant that is about to expire and/or was originally created with a provisional...
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