When installing System Centre Operations Manager 2012 and you are pointing to a remote Data Warehouse (for example, one shared between distributed management groups in a central location) which is behind a firewall, you may see the following error:"The installed version of SQL Server is not supported. Verify that the computer and installed version of ......

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This may well be already known but it took us a little while to figure out. When using the BizTalk FTP adapter to write files to a Unix FTP server you may have to ensure the recipient of those files has the right to read/delete them. When you ftp files, the master ftp configuration file determines the permissions that those files will have. You can ......

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Udi Dahan presented at the UK Connected Systems User Group last night. He discussed High Availability and pointed out that people often think this is purely an infrastructure challenge. However, the implications of system crashes, errors and resulting data loss need to be considered and managed by software developers. In addition a system should remain ......

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We’ve been upgrading our BTS 2006 R2 projects to Visual Studio 2008 while using Visual SourceSafe 2005. We all started to get this annoying error pop-up when checking files in and out. Unexpected error encountered. It is recommended that you restart the application as soon as possible. Error: Not implemented File: vsee\pkgs\vssprovider\csolu... ......

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Before Christmas I was looking at ways to send different email alerts from a single rule in SCOM (rather than creating different alert rules for each type of informational message I wanted sent out). I explored Custom Alert Fields - using Custom Alert Field 1 to hold some general text about the error and some support instructions. I then configured ......

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MOSS doesn't offer this out the box and of course many people would like to have it. Here's a quick and dirty javascript change which will offer this functionality. You'll have to forgive any inelegance in my coding, I'm a bit rusty ;) You need to edit the search.js file and add the following: A trim function function trim(s) { var l=0; var r=s.length ......

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A couple of posts back, I described an issue we had with emails not being downloaded by the BizTalk POP3 adapter. I'm happy to say that after working with Microsoft, a hotfix has been created for this which I tested yesterday. It'll take a few weeks for the KB article to be written up but I'll post details as soon as I have them. This fixes the "The ......

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System Center Operations Manager R2 is now available: http://www.microsoft.com/sy... While there a whole load on new features, we are really only just starting out on our SCOM journey here and the biggest plus point for me and my current custom Management Pack (for the BizTalk environment) is the ability ......

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We have a ticketing application deployed to BizTalk which helps automate the workflow around customer updates and the sending of emails. One of the functions the application performs is to handle returned emails (out of office and non-delivery) and update the ticket with that information. However, the implementation has caused us some issues. Right ......

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Thanks to Solidsoft for running a great day at Microsoft last week. Topics covered were BizTalk, SharePoint and using them to build successful SOA and BPM solutions. Being responsible for BizTalk and also having had SharePoint land on my plate recently, the day gave me some good ideas about where to take these platforms ......

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