A disclaimer fist: I am in no way advocating the installation of SharePoint 2010 on a DC in a production environment. This information should only be used to set up SharePoint in a lab environment. Microsoft do not support the installation of SQL Server on a DC, which is why the Standalone option is not
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Month: June 2010
My Profile in My Site – Error 404 File Not Found (SharePoint 2007)
Just doing some pre-upgrade checks on SharePoint 2007. Want to make sure that everything is working as it is before upgrading. As part of this I went to edit my profile on my personal site. Whenever I did though, I got an error message stating 404 File Not Found. Symptoms are described exactly in this
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Exchange 2010: No In-Place Upgrade
Really disappointed to have just found out that an in-place upgrade is not available when migrating from Exchange 2007 to 2010. Totally understand why this is the case though. Database schema changes and the lack of storage groups in 2010 being the root cause. Not great news for the smaller places which probably haven’t got
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Windows 2008 R2 RDS: Print Spooler Stops
We have two servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services. On both servers the Print Spooler service kept randomly stopping. In the Application event log, we noticed this error keep appearing: Faulting application name: spoolsv.exe, version 6.1.7600.16385, timestamp: 0x4a5bd3d1 Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version 6.1.7600.16385, timestamp: 0x4a5bd3d1 Exception code: 0xc0000374 After trying to
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