Archive for June, 2009

CRM 4.0 - Server Error in ‘/’ Application

Gday all,
We had recently powered off our CRM 4.0 server (IFD deployment) due to some urgent maintenance.
We powered on the server, waited for it load and then tried to login and got the wonderful ASP .Net error “Server Error in ‘/’ Application” - i though crap.. what’s going on here..
Looked through the event log and found the ASP [...]

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OWA 2003: 503 - Service Unavailable

Hello everyone,
I just had the pleasure of not properly shutting down 2 exchange 2003 servers due to some urgent issue we had..
As we were powering them up, everything seemed OK except when a user tried to login, they would get a “503 - Service Unavailable”.
Hmm ok, i thought maybe there’s something wrong with IIS so i ran [...]

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WSS 3.0: Deleted Config LDF file - no backups, now what?

Well guys, i just had the pleasure of deleting the LDF database file for my WSS 3.0 dev site.
Why? The server had literally 0.99MB of hard disk space and out of desperation, i deleted the 7GB log file by stopping the sql service and deleting the LDF file - i know, i wasn’t thinking straight…
Anyway, SQL [...]

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IIS Log File location

One thing i have noticed with windows server is that IIS will keep on creating log files and won’t stop.
You should always delete IIS log files espicially on servers that OWA is being used on ALOT..
Log File locations:
Windows Server 2000/2003

Logfiles are here by default – %SystemDrive%\windows\system32\logfiles

Windows Server 2008

The default location for IIS Logfiles has been moved here - [...]

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SharePoint application logs massive!!

After doing some development/webpart work on our sharepoint server, the log file to grew to 3.5GB - we have 0.99MB of free space of a 20GB disk (this is a dev/test Virtual server).
Anyway after searching, i came across this blog: http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/steventap/Blog/archive/2007/01/19/managing-sharepoint-2007-moss-application-log-size.aspx - thanks Steven!
Apparently you can manage how SharePoint logs it’s events:
The Problem:
SharePoint 2007 by default stores 48 [...]

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 trial finished and still need to use it??

Simple answer, just change the date/clock back 20 days in control panel.
It should now say:  You have 20 days left in the trial period.

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Set an ESX Host into maintenance mode using the service console

If you are using the service console and want to put the ESX server into maintenance mode, simple run the following commands:
Enter maintenance mode:
vimsh -n -e /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter
Exit maintenance mode:
vimsh -n -e /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_exit
How do you check whether you are in maintenance mode or not?
vimsh -n -e /hostsvc/runtimeinfo | grep inMaintenanceMode | awk ‘{print $3}’

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CRM4 Failover system?? It’s Possible!

Hello all,
Take the following actions:

Setup a new CRM server and choose the ‘connect to an existing deployment’ and choose the SQL server and reporting server

Once that’s online, test that it is working and make some changes (you should see them on your old system)

Lets assume that your deployment is sitting at CRM.MSCRMBLOG.NET all we do [...]

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New WP Theme!!

Finally found a nice looking wordpress theme..
Anyways, I’ll try posting some useful stuff now..

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CRM4: Hiding tabs and sections

Hello all,
I am currently working on a small CRM project and one of the requirements was to hide a section and a tab onLoad.
// Hiding the Contract section
crmForm.all.contractid_c.parentElement.parentElement.style.display=’none’;
// Hide the KB article tab (2nd Tab)
crmForm.all.tab1Tab.style.display=’none’;
I’m sure you can use this in other ways (i.e:. onChange, onClick etc..).
Happy Coding!

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