Updated 28 Feb 2015 – Added bit on static addresses When using a DD-WRT virtual router, I have realised it is worth setting static a MAC address in Hyper-V and DHCP lease on the router for any server VMs you want access to from your base system OS. In my case this is TFS demo VM a connect to all the time. If you don’t do this the address of the VM seems to vary more than you might expect....
I posted in the past on my experience with DD-WRT router running in Hyper-V to allow my VMs internet access. A couple of months on I am still using it and I think have got around the worst of the issues. The big problem is not with the DD-WRT router, but the way Hyper-V virtual switches use WiFi for some operating systems. Basically the summary is DHCP does not work for Linux VMs....
Whenever I tried to load an Office 2013 document from our SharePoint 2010 instance I kept ending up in the Office Web Application, the Office application was not being launched. If I tried the use the ‘Open in Word’ context menu I got the following error (and before you ask yes I was in IE, IE11 in fact, and Office 2013 was installed) My PC has been build of our standard System Center managed image, others using the same best image seemed OK, so what had gone wrong for me?...
I am really pleased to be speaking at Techorama again this year. This is a great friendly conference that covers a wide range of subjects. Like last year the conference is in Mechelen, Belgium on the 12 and 13th of May. Hope to see some of you there
In preparation for my Techdays session next month, I have been sorting demos using the various Release Management clients. When I tried to create a release from within Visual Studio using the ‘Release Management tools for Visual Studio I found I could not add my Azure subscriptions. I saw the error ‘An unexpected error occurred. Close the windows and try again’ I could download and import the subscription file, it showed the available storage accounts, but when I pressed save I got the rather unhelpful error ‘Object reference not set to an instance of an object’...