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Enabling First Release in Office 365

“First Release” update for Office 365 allows you to get access to updates faster than GA (General Availability). For more info check out Office 365 release options. With the first release option users receive a select set of  service updates as early as one week after the official release announcements. To enable First Release in Office 365 do […]

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Hyper-V: Compact Hyper-V Virtual Hard Disk

I am attempting to do some quick cleanup on a Hyper-V host used for testing. To do this I compacted the Hyper-V Virtual Disks. Open the Hyper-V Management console Right click on VM Guest Select Settings Select the Hard Drive for the VM Guest Click the Edit button Select Compact Click Finish *note* you want to […]

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Error: Setting up PowerShell Remoting

In an attempt to connect to a remote Hyper-V host I needed to enable PowerShell Remoting. To enable this you simple run PowerShell as Administrator and issue the following command: Enable-PSRemoting The command runs and then errors with the following output: PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Enable-PSRemoting WinRM has been updated to receive requests. WinRM service type changed […]

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Google+ posts from my WordPress blog posted as private

Wow!  And I learn something new every day… I have been using the publicize feature for a long time now to only find out that my post sent to Goolge+ have been private or limited to those in my circles. Now that was unexpected! What I have learned was by default, Google+ sets the visibility of […]

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SharePoint 2013 SP1: Configuration Wizard Issues New Installation, SDDL Invalid SID

During an install of SharePoint 2013 SP1 the following issues was encountered post installation where the configuration wizard would fail with the following error: failed to create sample data “The SDDL string contains an invalid sid or sid that cannot be translated” To resolve this issue I attempted to run all SharePoint servers as the local […]

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SharePoint 2013 SP1: Configuration Wizard Issues New Installation, TimeoutException

During an install of SharePoint 2013 SP1 the following issues was encountered post installation where the configuration wizard would fail to register SharePoint services. The following error was displayed: Exception: System.ServiceProcess.TimeoutException: Time out has expired and the operation has not been completed. To correct this issue we add two registry key values: – “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\<version>\LauncherSettings” – […]