At a customer, we had some incidents regarding the VPN Gateway. If the internet lines had a hiccup we had the problem with connection. Resetting the VPN Gateway restored the connection, but it was a manual proces. We needed an automatic solution. First thing i did was finding out if it was possible to reset…
In the previous blogpost I’ve setup a project within Azure DevOps, connected a repository with an editor (Visual Studio Code) and created a build pipeline. The next step will be to create a release pipeline in order to deploy or update a release. Let’s see how that will work out. Log in to Azure DevOps…
I’m not going to explain what Azure DevOps is, because it’s easy to find when you search for it. I wanted to take you with me on my journey in order to setup and maintain a cloud infrastructure through Azure DevOps. The Azure Portal is nice but we want to do everything automated with Infrastructure…
It’s been a while now since i wrote a blogpost. I think it was somewhere in 2017 that i wrote my last blog. My work changed a lot since then…. I spent the last 13 years a lot of time with different Microsoft technology, but always on-premises. I wanted to make a jump to working…
On a project where we did a lync 2013 to Skype for Business migration we came across the need to migrate reports and report subscriptions from the old lync 2013 environment to the new Skype for Business environment. In this case the reports where form Anywhere365, a Unified Contact Center software. I’ve tried different kind…
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…
