Troubleshooting the information store service can be straightforward yet immensely complicated if you don’t know what is going on. For this reason I think it is important to know that there are 3 likely culprits that will cause your information store service to go down and refuse to come up: · Database problems · Active directory problems · Antivirus software Trying to work out which is the culprit can be hard, elimination is probably the easiest way to work through this… So let us get started! 1....
It’s been a while since I blogged about my experience going through the interviews for a permanent position as a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. It was tough to hear that I did not get offered the job as there was one other “hopeful” that ended up being a closer match then myself. I had been contracting for Microsoft in Ireland and Belgium for 2 years by that time and applied, roughly, to 22 different positions throughout my career. Imagine my surprise when I received a call that there were new...
What is MockingBird? MockingBird is a tool-set for mocking web services. The core engine is essentially a configurable message interceptor that can act as a stand in for any web service. The two primary usage scenarios for MockingBird are Contract First development Isolation of build & dev servers from external dependencies MockingBird - Home Technorati Tags: MockingBird,tool,services,e... Windows Live Tags: MockingBird,tool,services,e...