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Solve ‘pending reboot’ setup show stopper for CRM 4 Client (with Update Rollup 7)

I’ve been extremely busy over the past week creating demo systems and updating our own internal Black Marble systems. Part of that long list of tasks was to get around to testing the CRM 4 Outlook client with Outlook 2010.

For those who don’t know, you need the Update Rollup7 client if you want to use Outlook 2010 (and x86 Office only need apply). You can download a slipstreamed client installer from Microsoft.

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Monday, January 11, 2010

Twitter clients: Twinbox and Tweetz

Anybody who follows me on twitter will know that @rikhepworth is by no means a prolific tweeter. However, I do follow a number of people around the planet, and in addition to the ubiquitous Tweetie2 on my iPhone, I have found two clients to be useful and reliable.

The first is Tweetz, from Blue Onion Software. This is a great gadget for the Windows 7 desktop (or Vista Sidebar). The UI is simple and extremely usable (I love the way I can scroll the history for older tweets) and it makes posting a breeze.

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Monday, January 11, 2010

Reassigning the correct SSL certificate to SharePoint 2010 Web Services IIS Site

Prologue

This post is about assigning an SSL certificate to an IIS 7.5-hosted website which is not located in the Personal Certificate store. The steps shown are not SharePoint-specific, however. Hopefully this post will save you the large amount of time I spent hunting down the information on how to do this.

The usual background

I’ve been installing and configuring a SharePoint 2010 system that we can use here at Black Marble for our demo sessions. I hit a nasty wall just after lunch which turned out to be caused by the SSL certificate being used by the ISS web site hosting the SharePoint web services.

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Thursday, January 7, 2010

SharePoint Search Gatherer Error 10032

We encountered a problem recently with a two server farm. One server was configured as index and query server. Both servers were delivering pages to users. If a user executed a search on the server which did not run the search services, the Search page returned an error, and we saw the following in the application log and SharePoint logs:

Event Type: Error  
Event Source: Office Server Search  
Event Category: Gatherer  
Event ID: 10032  
Description:  
Could not create a database session.  
Context: Application '2bee214b-e0b9-413b-8d85-c71002287e99'  
Details:  
 The database connection string is not available.  (0xc0041228)

Application 2bee214b-e0b9-413b-8d85-c71002287e99: The parent farm application root doesn't exist or access denied. - File:d:\office\source\search\search\searchdll\resourcemanagerimpl.cpp Line:703  
Application 2bee214b-e0b9-413b-8d85-c71002287e99: Database session creation error for resource type 0. - File:d:\office\source\search\search\searchdll\resourcemanagerimpl.cpp Line:555

After a great deal of investigation and assistance from the guys at Microsoft, we identified the fault. On the server which had no search services configured, we added the following registry keys, copied across from the server which was running index and query functions:

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Friday, September 25, 2009

Kerberos for SharePoint on Server 2008 with IIS 7

UPDATE: Spence posted a great comment pointing out some issues with this post. Richard then restored our Community Server DB to a point in time before the post, so it’s been wiped. Post again, Spence, please, as I didn’t get chance to copy the text of the comment, I’m afraid.

I’ve not been doing so well with blog posts lately. I have more than one currently in process but unposted, and I just can’t seem to get the time to finish them – so apologies, CSW, for not getting the article I promised up yet, but I am working on it.

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Monday, July 6, 2009

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