Posted by: djjlewis on: 11/12/2009
I recently went to update a property on my development SharePoint server (peoplepicker-onlysearchsitecollection as it happens) and after typing in the full stsadm –o setproperty command was greeted with this rather worrying message: “The server administration programs and the Windows SharePoint Services Web applications on this Web server are not compatible. Ensure that the administration [...]
Posted by: djjlewis on: 04/12/2009
If you get this error message when trying to install VMWare Workstation 7 on Windows Server 2008 R2, it is most probably because you have the Hyper-V role installed and enabled which is not compatible with VMWare. The easiest option is to follow the instructions detailed on this blog to disable the Hyper-V service from [...]
Posted by: djjlewis on: 04/12/2009
UPDATE: I was just a little too hasty posting this entry. After reading the recommendations for booting from a VHD on TechNet it turns out that putting the page file on a physical drive rather than the virtual is required for performance reasons. In my case I just moved it to a different physical drive [...]
