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Many times in the last couple of years I have come across the message " The user does not exist or is not unique." It is usually on its own, with no other error messages or clues to deciphering its cryptic text. Generally I have had only limited success in getting past this error, usually getting...

For anyone who has tried to install CRM 4.0 on a SQL Server 2008 installation you will probably know there are a few checks in the CRM installer that make this installation quite painful. It took me a few hours of fiddling and going through the install logs carefully to fix the two issues that occurred...

We came across a very odd issue today where the following error message would be displayed within IIS. The error message itself is not terribly helpful as usual, and there are no other error messages records in any event logs or log files. This was happening whenever any of the configuration options...

I have seen this error three times now, the first time I made a recommendation to contact Microsoft Premier Support, the second time I worked it out, and this third time I decided it was worth blogging about. The error is very simply when you attempt to publish a workflow you receive a rather unhelpful...

A long while ago I put together an article after having a hell of a time getting Project 2007 and SQL Analysis Services 2005 to play nicely together to build a cube, My original post can be found here . The original article got quite a few hits, so I assume that it is something that many people have...

I stumbled across something I'd never noticed before in CRM 4.0 today, I suppose in retrospect it is pretty obvious, but I thought I would mention it anyway. It is pretty simply the ability to create a custom view that has error messages for your system jobs. Go to Settings Go to System Jobs Click...

Wow that was quick! Not even a week ago and I was talking here, and at a presentation I gave to the Brisbane Infrastructure Group about how the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Beta would be available within 30 days. The SCVMM team has definitely not made me a liar, as here it is already...

Beta registration for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 was released just today! https://connect.microsoft.com/SelfNomination.aspx?ProgramID=3021&pageType=1&SiteID=799 The registration page also lists some of the features of SCVMM 2008 R2, which will tie in pretty heavily with the...

Just a quick update as I will be presenting this month at two usergroups. On Tuesday 10th March I will be presenting on System Center virtual Machine Manager 2008 at Brisbane Infrastructure Group Session #2, Hosting and Self Provision of Virtual Machines with SCVMM w/ Mark Rhodes Hosting virtualized...

Content deployment seems to be one of those topics that a lot of people tend to avoid, this is most likely because it has a whole host of nuances and subtleties that can make it seem buggy or unusable. In the spirit of documenting the little quirks of content deployment, here is one I encountered just...