MMA - Microsoft Musings by Alan

Tables without a clustered index are not supported in this version of SQL Server. Please create a clustered index and try again.

If you're using SQLAzureMW against the latest release of Azure SQL, you need CU5 applied to the...

Date: 12/24/2014

Move an Azure virtual machine between subscriptions or data centers / geos

I couldn't find this on the web, but found the link internally, so I'm hoping the title here and web...

Date: 12/16/2014

Windows Phone app for Desktop: "We couldn’t find your Podcasts library, but you can create a new one using Windows Explorer, and we’ll use that."

Solution: Create a new Library. Library must be named “Podcasts” Library must be of type...

Date: 12/17/2013

Internet Explorer IE print res://ieframe.dll/preview.js

I got this error in Win 8.1 and none of the solutions I found online fixed it. What I found was that...

Date: 11/08/2013

Office 365 EWS Unauthorized

Are you logging in with UPN and Password only? Have you granted yourself rights to the impersonation...

Date: 09/27/2012

Hibernate in Windows 8

Control Panel > System and Security > Power Options > Change/Chooose what the power buttons...

Date: 08/17/2012

"the microsoft online services directory synchronization tool must be installed on a domain joined computer running windows server 2008 or later"

Are you trying to install DirSync on a domain controller? Think again. Must be a member server....

Date: 08/11/2012

Office 365 DirSync Directory Synchronization "stopped-server-down"

Check that your cloud service account (the one you provided when running the wizard, to...

Date: 08/09/2012

Technical Project Management - Progress Reporting

In technical projects, PMs can easily get caught up in status reporting by percentage complete. This...

Date: 07/13/2012

New-MoveRequest. The call to net.tcp [server name] prod.outlook.com/Microsoft.Exchange.MailboxReplicationService [server name] prod.outlook.com ([IP])' failed. Error details: The socket connection was aborted.

Saw this at a customer. They had something odd with an authenticating proxy in IE. They changed to...

Date: 06/25/2012

Technical Project Management - Risks, Issues, and Actions

In project management, risk equals action. Too often, risks are looked at as things to watch out for...

Date: 05/07/2012

Technical Project Management - Incentives

Incentive plans are, by definition, designed to motivate employees to behave in ways that align with...

Date: 04/23/2012

Technical Project Management - Operating Level Agreements

When conducting a project that requires coordination with an internal entity that is...

Date: 04/08/2012

Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 Screen Capture Error: "output path not valid"

This solved it for me!...

Date: 03/21/2012

Technical Project Management - Continuous Clarification

This is the first in a series of blog posts on technical project management. I spent the last six...

Date: 02/06/2012

DirSync "Coexistence MSI installation failed. msiexec returned 1603 Unable to uninstall the Microsoft Online Services Directory Synchronization tool."

Not the best error message, I'll give you that. Server management, add features, and enable .NET...

Date: 01/03/2012

The attempt to connect to ... using "Negotiate" authentication failed

From EMC, error message - The attempt to connect to https://ps.outlook.com/PowerShell/PowerShell.htm...

Date: 12/13/2011

Unable to establish a trust between the federation server proxy and the Federation Service

Error: "Unable to establish a trust between the federation server proxy and the Federation Service....

Date: 10/26/2011

Secrets

I feel the need for secret information that I have no real need to know, simply so that I can...

Date: 08/27/2011

Corrupt Windows 7 Libraries

This article fixed it for me. Basically, I was trying my documents to a webdav location, which hosed...

Date: 08/14/2011

AD FS 2.0 Federation Server Configuration Wizard Error

Errors: An error occurred during an attempt to perform the configuration task: An error occurred...

Date: 07/27/2011

What if you move Hyper-V files before Exporting the Machine?

Go to the “missing VM folder\virtual Machines” and take note of the file {GUID}.xml (In...

Date: 07/21/2011

Outlook stuck on "loading profile"

Short answer: Closing Office Communicator (Lync) fixed it for me. Source:...

Date: 05/12/2011

"DNS name does not exist" error code 0x0000232B RCODE_NAME_ERROR

If you get this while trying to join a box to the domain, point the box to the DC's DNS IP. Fixed it...

Date: 04/26/2011

Security Policy Settings Greyed Out

Solution: (1) Goto Start>Run type in gpmc.msc (Group Policy Management) (2) Expand your Domain...

Date: 04/26/2011

"Your client does not support opening this list with Windows Explorer"

Solution: Start the WebClient service. source

Date: 04/03/2011

Add Roles Wizard for WSUS, Stuck on "searching for updates"

I was having general Internet connection issues. So I replaced the Hyper-V network adapter with a...

Date: 03/02/2011

Multiple Wireless WAN (WWAN) Devices Were Detected on Your Computer

Got this message on my Dell box with an internal dial up card, when trying to use my new USB760....

Date: 12/03/2010

Correct Format for Sending Parameters to SSRS via Query String

I always seem to have trouble finding the right answer to this online. This worked for me:...

Date: 11/27/2010

Online/Offline Apps: Windows Azure and Windows Phone 7

In this video, I take you through the development and deployment of a Windows Phone 7 app, which...

Date: 11/22/2010

Visio 2010 Crash

Visio 32-bit on Windows 7 was crashing a lot. I'd lose a ton of work repeatedly. Found this which...

Date: 09/22/2010

MMA

It's been a while since I posted to Microsoft Musings by Alan. I was locked out of my account when...

Date: 09/21/2010

IE 8

Well, finally they got the browser to the point where it's on par with Firefox. I spoke to the IE 8...

Date: 05/28/2009

TFS / Project Server Connector - Error 401, Unauthorized

Another one of those problems I was banging my head against for days... no reference on the web to...

Date: 03/24/2009

Dope

Saw this at TechReady 6. Glad they released it. Just... wow.

Date: 03/16/2009

The ultimate real time strategy game platform

I'm thinking Startcraft III.........

Date: 03/04/2009

Outlook 2007 - "Inline" Communicator

Dope. https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Communicator4Outlook

Date: 02/23/2009

Hello World!

I worked for a Microsoft Partner for about 10 years, and I would run into the msdn blogs all the...

Date: 02/18/2009