Skype for Business needs a file share to store shared data of the pool. When installing a Skype for Business environment you want the file share to be high available. In order to make a file share high available you need DFS, Distributed File System. For installing and configuring DFS I used this blogpost (https://insidemstech.com/2015/08/24/deploy-dfs-for-skype-for-business-server-2015-enterprise-pool-part-i/) for guidance. But…
I came across this issue on a couple of SharePoint farms. Problem: When i was trying to patch a SharePoint 2013 farm i ran in to a problem that the SharePoint Config Wizard told me that it needed updates on some servers within the farm. The strange thing about the updates was that they were…
When you’re using SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups pay attention when applying the following patches: SQL 2012 SP2 CU3 SQL 2012 SP2 CU4 SQL 2014 CU5 The Availability Group may stop synchronizing due to blocking between user queries and a system session. The fix is to disable automatic failover if it is activated, restart the SQL Server instance…
I needed to install SharePoint 2010 on Windows Server 2012 R2, but I needed to check if SharePoint 2010 had support for Windows server 2012 R2. Luckily Microsoft had updated the KB article for SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 2. It is now possible to install SharePoint 2010 on Windows Server 2012 R2. The following was added to the…
Installing SQL 2014 isn’t quite as different as installing SQL Server 2012. Sure there are some minor UI changes when installing SQL, but it’s all the same. In order for SharePoint to work with SQL, we only need the database engine. I don’t want to click my way through the setup every time I need to install SQL server.…
I’m no Database Administrator and learning about SQL every day, but I came across a nice download from the Microsoft website. It’s called Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Performance Dashboard Reports. It sounded like something I might use form time to time. You can download the Performance Dashboard Reports here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29063 The installation is pretty simple,…
As of April 1st, SQL Server has been made available to download. If you have a MSDN subscription you will be able to download the bits. If you don’t have an MSDN subscription you can download the evaluation bits on the TechNet evaluation center. Remember! In order for SharePoint 2013 to work with SQL Server…
SQL Server 2014 has been released to manufacture (RTM) on March 18th by Microsoft. On April 1st the download of SQL Server 2014 will be made available. Brings up the question if SharePoint will support SQL Server 2014, well the answer is yes. However, SharePoint 2013 will not be able to work with SQL Server…
Office 2013: Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2013 32-Bit Edition (English) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42005 Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2013 32-Bit Edition (Dutch) http://www.microsoft.com/nl-nl/download/details.aspx?id=42005 Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2013 64-Bit Edition (English) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42006 Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2013 64-Bit Edition (Dutch) http://www.microsoft.com/nl-nl/download/details.aspx?id=42006 Office 2013 Language Pack: Service Pack 1 for Microsoft…
I needed to configure Host Named Site Collections for a few customers and ran into a few problems especially with the creation of MySites. I know that Host Named Site Collections (HNSC) were available in SharePoint 2010 and that Microsoft improved it in SharePoint 2013. Didn’t play with it in SharePoint 2010 and now with…
Recently I had to invest a broken installation of a cumulative update for Project Server 2013, it turns out that the installation of the binaries on the server where successful. However wen running the SharePoint Configuration Wizard it got stuck. It got stuck around 10.00% of the upgrade, searching through the logs didn’t reveal much.…
I was looking for a good way to deploy a lab environment using Hyper-V on Windows 8. One of the things I wanted was that my machines need to interact with the host and that they need to connect to the internet. The other thing I wanted was that not to create machines manually. After…
