SQL Reporting Services and SharePoint 2007 Broken by Windows Updates

Heres a nasty little problem, we have a SharePoint farm that consists of 4 servers, two Web Front Ends, and application server and a SQL server. This is Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Enterprise SP2 running on Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 SP2 (32-bit), all was well until a recent automatic update was installed which broke the application […]

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Microsoft SQL 2000 SP4 In-Place Upgrade to SQL 2005 – Upgrade Advisor Error

We had a very old server running SQL 2000 SP4 that we needed to upgrade to SQL 2005, as we didn’t have the staff resource available for a complete rebuild of the whole server to Windows 2008 and SQL 2008 we decided to do an inplace upgrade. All seemed to go swiminingly until I hit […]

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Sharepoint 2007 with DPM 2010 – Item Level Backup Items not Appearing for Restoration

When Backup Sharepoint 2007, with DPM 2010, it catalougues MOSS items every 24 hours , if you need to force this operation to be able to restore item you can use powershell command. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff634233.aspx. Note this operation happens out of band from the normal backup, sometimes it will fail even though the backup is successful. […]

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Exchange 2010 – UCC Certificate “The certificate is invalid for Exchange Server Usage”

I was getting the errors of “The Certificate is Invalid for Exchange Server Usage” to “The certificate status could not be determined because the revocation check failed.” Here is how I fixed them in our test environment before we deployed to live, the first error is a common one, the second one seems to only […]

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Postfix SPF Error postfix-policyd-spf-perl SERVFAIL Workaround

We had an interesting one with Postfix, we were recieving mail fine from all other domains. Then one domain (in this case domain.co.uk) started not to get through, no changes had been made at our end. What was happening was that their domain.co.uk nameservers were not reporting TXT records properly, rather than reporting nothing or […]

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