I recently upgraded a client from SharePoint v2.0 to v2010. The upgrade was successful, and the Business Portal implementation on SharePoint Server 2010 was also successful. Then, we installed Project Server on the same web application that Business Portal was installed on. After the Project installation, SharePoint stopped working and threw up the generic error …
Category Archive: Sharepoint
Oct
01
SharePoint Conference 2011 starts Sunday!
This Sunday, October 2, kicks off the biggest SharePoint event of the year! The SharePoint Conference 2011 gets underway this week in Anaheim, CA. This year’s conference promises to be full of great information and exciting keynote speakers. I will be there all week, and for those who will not be in attendance this year, …
Sep
29
Adding to your bucket…
Feel like your “work bucket” is less than full? Time to add to it! Fill it by attending a Summit Group Software training course for Microsoft Dynamics products already in use at your workplace. Gain a sense of accomplishment by learning something new and increase your ability – making you a greater asset to your team and organization. …
Sep
13
Failed to start service SPSearchServiceInstance on this server after completing upgrade. Please start it manually.
Came across an interesting one yesterday. We had a client getting ready to upgrade from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010. The only problem with doing the straight database detach and attach upgrade was that WSS 3.0 was still on SP1. So I downloaded SP2 to the WSS server and went through …
Aug
02
Helpful tips when upgrading Business Portal 4.0 (for GP 10) to Business Portal 5.1 (for GP 2010 and SharePoint 2010)
Are you preparing to upgrade your Business Portal (BP) implementation from v4.0 to v5.1 with the new release of SharePoint 2010 and 64-bit compatibility? There are a couple of things that you should take into account before attempting the upgrade. A lot of planning should go into your upgrade considering you are going to be …
Feb
17
“Take it to the Cloud!â€
Let me paint you a picture: A consultant (let’s call him Bosh Behl..to protect the innocent) preparing to do a 4 hour workshop on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 for a room full of his customers arrives early onsite to ensure that he can connect to his CRM Hyper-V environment. Before he left the office, it …
Jul
19
Time to get Trained!
Did you get the memo?? Summit Group Software has moved! Our new location has many great new benefits — perhaps the best one… Our new training room! We are putting it straight to good use and running a Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Administration class for customers this week. It’s a full house in there and …
Feb
25
Why I Love Convergence
I woke up today and realized it is almost March. It has been an absolute whirlwind since the beginning of the year – with year-end of course, and a ton of great projects kicking off the year right. With spring — comes Convergence! Microsoft’s annual Microsoft Dynamics Customer Conference is held April 24-27, 2010 in …
Nov
20
Business Intelligence in Microsoft Dynamics GP 11
The pieces are starting to come together on what the next release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 11 is going to look like. There are going to be a number of changes coming in GP 11 that we will be giving you a sneak peak into. The first thing I’m writing about is the future of …