May 2014 – Collaborationpro.com

Posted on 30th May 2014 by edward

MSFT has now released CU5. If you want to read about this update you can look at the link below: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2014/05/27/released-exchange-server-2013-cumulative-update-5.aspx Lets start. First I will put one of my Exchange Servers in Maintenance Mode. Best practice as I have seen if you don’t do this DAG copies give problems. Here are the 4 commands […]

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Posted on 29th May 2014 by edward

MSFT has released the much awaited CU5 for Exchange 2013. You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43103 For more info on this release? http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2014/05/27/released-exchange-server-2013-cumulative-update-5.aspx Blog to follow with upgrade details.

Category:Exchange 2013

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Posted on 21st May 2014 by edward

The User Profile Service is quite something…One day it will work and the next not. After the April 2014 CU for SharePoint 2013 my SharePoint Server User Profile service wouldn’t start or stop. If I go to the Service Applications it is stuck in a stopping state. The only way to force stop it running […]

Category:SharePoint 2013

TaggedProfile service, Service Applications, sharepoint server, The User Profile Service

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Posted on 20th May 2014 by edward

Today I installed a new SharePoint 2013 Server to add to my existing farm. I installed SQL and all the prerequisites for SharePoint, rebooted a couple of times. After all the installs I installed the April 2014 CU for SharePoint as the second server needs to match the existing one. The install takes a little […]

Category:SharePoint 2013

TaggedDatabase server, farm, sharepoint

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Posted on 17th May 2014 by edward

Today I ran the SharePoint 2013 April 2014 CU. The extraction and installation was successful. Upon running the SharePoint Configuration Wizard after the restart, PSCONFIG failed immediately on step 3 with the following error: This upgrade session has been stopped. Possible causes include the process being terminated abruptly or the OS has rebooted. Please restart […]

Category:SharePoint 2013

Taggedsharepoint, SharePoint Configuration Wizard, SharePoint Management Shell, sharepoint server

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Posted on 5th May 2014 by edward

As with the previous post where I upgraded SCCM SQL from 2008 to 2014, I did the same with System Center Operations Manager. You need to make sure that SQL 2008 is on SP2 and that SQL 2012 is on SP1 or the upgrade will fail on the checks. After I upgraded these I proceeded […]

Category:System Center Operations Manager R2

TaggedSCOM, SQL

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Posted on 2nd May 2014 by edward

Today I got my hands on SQL 2014. I decided to upgrade my System Centre Configuration Manager Server. It took a couple of hours as SQL 2008 R2 needed to be on SP2 and SQL 2012 R2 needed to be on SP1. After 2.4GB’s of updates the SQL 2014 checks passed. The upgrade from SQL […]

Category:SQL 2014, System Center Configuration Manager R2

TaggedReporting Service, Reporting Services Point, SQL Reporting Services, SQL Reporting Services Instance

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Month: May 2014

UPGRADE EXCHANGE 2013 SP1 to CU5

Exchange 2013 CU5 Released.

User Profile Service stuck Stopping.

Failed to connect to the configuration database when adding server to SharePoint 2013 farm

SharePoint 2013 Upgrade Error

SCOM 2012 R2 and SQL 2014

SCCM 2012 R2 CU1 and SQL 2014