Upgrade on Matt Thornton

Yes, more! Timer jobs not running!

Fri, 24 Nov 2017 19:14:28 +0000

OK, so I’ve posted 5 times in the last 2 days on various SharePoint related things. Any regular readers of this blog will know that is entirely out of the ordinary and does not take a genius to determine that I’ve been doing something with SharePoint and, as with most SharePoint projects, I’ve encountered a bunch of issues. The events that have led to these are probably not common but equally something that you will face from time to time. The perfect storm of requirements consist of:

SharePoint passphrase recovery

Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:11:29 +0000

Was doing a Service Pack upgrade on a SharePoint installation and hit an unexpected error:

Unable to create a Service Connection Point in the current Active Directory domain. Verify that the SharePoint container exists in the current domain and that you have rights to write to it.
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: The object LDAP://CN=Microsoft SharePoint Products,CN=System,DC=xxx,DC=com doesn’t exist in the directory.

This seemed odd - I’d just completed the same process on a different environment and didn’t hit the same issue. And after checking with one of the domain admins… confirmed that this container does not exist at all. So it seems it’s a spurious issue.

Free D-Link G624T Wireless router. (Kind of.)

Tue, 27 May 2008 13:05:43 +0000

If you already own a D-Link G604T wireless router, then you can upgrade it to the G624T model, simply by flashing the firmware. The 624 firmware has many more configurable options, including much improved support for ADSL2+. Here’s what to do.