When creating a new virtual SharePoint farm, several servers will be required in most cases: AD – if the farm is in a lab or is in a completely greenfield environment SQL – Not essential in a research/development environment, but usually essential in most other environments SharePoint – At least one SharePoint machine will be Read More
Month: June 2014
Hyper-V Boot Failed
The first time I tried to install Windows Server 2012 R2 on a Generation 2 VM I ran into the following error: The ISO image was mounted as a virtual DVD drive But pressing a key was not accepted by the VM. It turns out that the Generation 2 VMs do not accept a key Read More
Replace a GUID in a DB
Working with SharePoint, Project Server or Dynamics databases, or any other database for that matter sometimes involves replacing GUIDs. Although it is not supported in a production environment, it can be a useful action in a development environment. The issue with many of these application managed databases is that the use of a particular GUID Read More
SharePoint behind a Proxy
I was recently involved in the build of a large SharePoint 2013 farm that is behind a Proxy server. Initially, there was no access through to the internet so the install was done using an offline install. This allowed everything to be completed with the exception of the SharePoint App Store and access to external Read More