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Running Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 from Esxi 5 & VMware Workstation 8
So the scenario is that I have an instance of Windows Server 2012 (Windows Server 8 Beta) running on VMware Workstation 8 on my laptop. Adding Hyper V role to the server Speed bump The other error that has been recorded: Fix: Shutdown the Windows Server 2012 Browse to your VM location and open the [...]
SharePoint Search Crawl Errors and Fixing them
My current lab environment has the following: 2 Web Front Ends which are sitting behind 2 Clustered Load balancers that I use. Query Role is also setup within this layer, so the Index are being written onto this server. 2 Application Servers that has been configured with 1 crawler per server. The load balancers as [...]
SharePoint Update – Joining Farm Issue
In order to test some search functionality for a project that I am involved with, I decided to add another APP server to my SharePoint farm. Currently the farm: Basically the farm is currently at August 2011 CU level. I finished building the base Windows 2008 R2 SP1 App server and installed SP2010 binaries onto [...]
IIS reset your whole SharePoint Farm
One of my current projects involves building a farm with Multiple SharePoint servers. One of the painful processes is doing an IISReset across the farm. There are few solutions out there and this is the one I wrote couple of days back using their logic. 12345678910111213141516171819cls Write-Host "Loading SharePoint Commandlets" Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -erroraction SilentlyContinue Write-Host [...]