November 2012 - Rez's Blog Spot

Speaking at SharePoint Saturday Ottawa on Dec 1st, 2012

November 26, 2012 Rez Khamis Comments 0 Comment

For those of you in and around the Ottawa vicinity on Dec 1st. Be sure to check out a free SharePoint training event at SharePoint Saturday Ottawa on Saturday, Dec 1st, 2012 at Algonquin College. This is a great chance to get caught up on the new SharePoint 2013 features if you happened to miss the SharePoint Conference. I will be presenting the following two sessions: What’s new and different in SharePoint 2013? There are a lot of great features…

SharePoint 2013 Pre-Requisites install on Windows 2012 Server causes continual reboot

November 5, 2012 Rez Khamis Comments 0 Comment

A few colleagues are running into a problem where during the SharePoint 2013 prerequisites install (or product preparation tool), on their Windows 2012 server, the tool continually fails creating the application/web server role and causes the system to go into an endless reboot/restart. The workaround has been published in a Microsoft Support KB Article (KB2765260) – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2765260. When this problem occurs, the Products Preparation Tool does not progress past the “Configuring Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role” stage. Workaround…