Had a bit of a scare during a maintenance window. Ran some updates on our SharePoint farm and after that one of the sites wasn’t coming up. Kept getting a 503 error. When I checked the event log, I found this error message: An exception occurred when trying to issue security token: The HTTP service… Continue reading Security Token Service
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SharePoint Documents are all checked out
I wanted to write a PowerShell script to check all the documents back in that had been checked out. Turns out that is not as straight forward as I had hoped. First search came up with this: Office Discarding Check Out Using PowerShell Then when I tried to run the command (from the server console,… Continue reading SharePoint Documents are all checked out
SharePoint Recycle Bin
I mentioned earlier (here) that we are clearing some old data out of a SharePoint site. Aside from the various client side issues with trying to do that, you also have to figure out how to clean up SharePoint. SharePoint has a multi-tier Recycle Bin. There is a pretty good article about how it works… Continue reading SharePoint Recycle Bin
Moving data out of SharePoint
We have a SharePoint site that we used to store some data. It was used at remote locations to be able to “map a drive” and interact with data. There is some old data in the site now, and we needed to move it off. I hadn’t messed with it in a while and forgot… Continue reading Moving data out of SharePoint
Operations Manager 2012 R2 Management Pack Dependencies
I am not proficient at managing Ops Manager. I am at best a competent tinkerer. I have been needing to do some clean up on our Ops Manager installation, and clear some management packs that are not used, or just used to generate noise that we subsequently ignore. That is a bit of an annoying… Continue reading Operations Manager 2012 R2 Management Pack Dependencies
Upgrade of System Center Operations Manager Server OS
Our Operations Manager installation is an upgrade from 2007 through (currently) 2012 R2. The operating system was Server 2008 R2. I like to stay current, so I was interested in figuring out how to upgrade to Server 2012 R2. When I did a search on it, I found that there were recommendations on how to… Continue reading Upgrade of System Center Operations Manager Server OS
The Good and the Bad of Microsoft Ignite (IMHO)
I have been attending a Microsoft conference each year since 2003. (I think I missed one year because of a child being born close to the same time as the conference.) Until last year, the conference that I went to was the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS). I am an infrastructure guy so that conference seemed… Continue reading The Good and the Bad of Microsoft Ignite (IMHO)
Goals (or interests) for this year
I said I want to make it to 175 posts (from 148 posts). I have been thinking (for at least 5 minutes) that one way to do that is to write about some of the things that I want to work on. Then I could share my progress, as well as the lessons learned from… Continue reading Goals (or interests) for this year
Hyper-V Replica DC not working
I used the capabilities of Hyper-V 2012 to create a test environment that mirrors production systems (including a Domain Controller). I couldn’t get the other computers in the environment to use the replica for authentication. After a little more testing, I figured out that I couldn’t open AD DS on the DC. Lots of searching… Continue reading Hyper-V Replica DC not working
Error after upgrading Orchestrator to 2012 R2
After upgrading from System Center Orchestrator 2012 sp1 to 2012 R2, my Runbooks weren’t running via my scheduled tasks. After some digging, I figured out that I couldn’t open the Orchestration Console, because I kept getting this error: Error executing the current operation. [HttpWebRequest_WebException_RemoteServer] Arguments: NotFound Debugging resource strings are unavailable. Often the key and… Continue reading Error after upgrading Orchestrator to 2012 R2