So the other day I said that I was moving this blog to Azure. I have tinkered with that, and am actually making a little progress. (This happens when you put little effort/time into something). I decided to bring it back up where it was in order to do an easier transfer of the image… Continue reading Not quite yet…
Migrating to Azure
So, at the time of this writing, my blog is down. If you are reading this, then I must have succeeded in migrating it to Azure for hosting. If I didn’t succeed, maybe I will be the only one who reads this. I am an “on again/ off again” blogger, so anything is possible. I… Continue reading Migrating to Azure
Open Live Writer
Since it first came out, I have been a fan of what was “Windows Live Writer”. It was probably one of the simplest, and friendliest tools that came from Microsoft in the Windows Live time frame (in my opinion). I recall coming across something a while back that reference an update to Live Writer, and… Continue reading Open Live Writer
Express Route Provisioning Error
We have recently decided to invest in an Express Route circuit for Azure. It is supposed to be helpful with Azure and Office 365. There are two ways to provision the ExpressRoute circuit. Both require PowerShell. There is the classic: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/expressroute-howto-circuit-classic/ And there is the Resource Manager: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/expressroute-howto-circuit-arm/ Here is the note about those… Continue reading Express Route Provisioning Error
StorSimple Virtual Appliance
I have been interested in StorSimple for some time, but haven’t actually used it before. Recently, Microsoft announced a virtual appliance preview. It looks pretty interesting and I have a test scenario where I want to use it. If my testing goes well, I may expand my use of it. The documentation on it is… Continue reading StorSimple Virtual Appliance
2015 Blog Report
Well, I didn’t hit the number I was hoping to hit. I made it to 162, and I was hoping to make it to 175. Maybe by the end of 2016? Since this is a WordPress site and I use Jetpack here is a nice little report provided with no effort on my part: http://jetpack.me/annual-report/6842850/2015/
Shrinking volumes
Sometimes, I find it useful to shrink volumes. This happens about once every 2 or 3 years. Since I do it so infrequently, I have to look it up every time. In my experience, while you can do it from the GUI, it isn’t always successful. Also, I have not ever seen it work to… Continue reading Shrinking volumes
Don’t instal build 10547
I have been very happy with the Windows 10 builds. Most of them have at least been “no visible change” for me. Build 10547 however, was not like that. I had heard of some issues with that build from one of my co-workers, but nothing specific enough to not make think it was other than… Continue reading Don’t instal build 10547
Blog Status
When I got back on the Blog wagon, I intended to write more posts, and even came up with a list of topics that I wanted to write about. So far I am not doing so well on that. The last couple of posts that I wrote had to do with SharePoint, which wasn’t even… Continue reading Blog Status
Security Token Service
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