http://blogs.catapultsystems.comBlogs about technology and miscellaneous ramblings from our employeesCopyright 2011 Catapult Systems. All rights reserved.Here’s an interesting one – At my current client, if I go through a favorite to the URL for Central Admin and try to delete a service app, I am presented with a grayed out delete icon in the ribbon.  Huh…even with the farm ID, nada.  Turns out that this client has a Windows 2008 feature called “Administrator Approval” turned on: “…a feature called Administrator Approval Mode, which runs your p...Jim Falgouthttp://blogs.catapultsystems.com/jfalgout/archive/2012/02/21/unable-to-delete-service-application-through-central-administration.aspxTue, 21 Feb 2012 11:26:53 GMTI am working on my presentation and lab environment in preparation for the Inaugural Office 365 Saturday Event this Saturday, February 25th, in Redmond, WA. I was very honored to be selected as a session presenter for this event! My session is dealing with an Office 365 Hybrid Deployment using the new Hybrid Wizard with Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2. I have previously blogged about my experience wi...Sean McNeillhttp://blogs.catapultsystems.com/smcneill/archive/2012/02/20/office-365-saturday-in-redmond-2252012.aspxMon, 20 Feb 2012 21:15:00 GMTGreg Ramsey has been a roll lately with blog posts.  He's published another really great read over on his blog.  "I’m a bit of a fan of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), but today’s post is a bit of a ‘buyer beware’.  I’ll sum it up, and then provide some detail and give you some ideas of where this can be a very bad thing" Read his full post here.Chris Nackershttp://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cnackers/archive/2012/02/20/win32_product-is-evil.aspxMon, 20 Feb 2012 14:24:10 GMT You know how sometimes during a break-up, someone might say "It's not you, it's me" when in reality, it's actually them? Well the same goes for SharePoint environments as well. Sometimes it looks like SharePoint is broken, and while that may be true, there are also a host of other factors that can cause things to go awry. As part of a new blog series, I'll be sharing what those othe...Melonie Poolehttp://blogs.catapultsystems.com/mpoole/archive/2012/02/18/its-not-sharepoint-its.aspxSat, 18 Feb 2012 11:41:00 GMTWe love technology and we love helping people. It's in our DNA. That's a very short description of our Managed Services team here at Catapult Systems. We help businesses and people every day and it's why we enjoy coming to work. So, in that spirit, I thought it might be a good idea to share some of our stories and write about those success stories or, as I call them, "service stories."...Melonie Poolehttp://blogs.catapultsystems.com/mpoole/archive/2012/02/18/service-stories-its-in-our-dna.aspxSat, 18 Feb 2012 11:15:00 GMTHave you checked out the new Microsoft Office 365 TechCenter? It is the premier place to visit to learn about and help with all things Office 365! Highly recommend you check it out and familiarize yourself with what is available to help admins and end users alike.Sean McNeillhttp://blogs.catapultsystems.com/smcneill/archive/2012/02/17/new-office-365-techcenter.aspxFri, 17 Feb 2012 15:07:00 GMTAn OpsMgr administrator I have worked with for a while reached out to me with this question today: “Our web console looks to be working fine but not all performance counters that show in in the local console show up in the web console. Is this a known issue or is there something specific I am missing?”   We tracked this back to a limitation of how many performance counters are displayed in the O...Cameron Fullerhttp://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2012/02/16/why-are-some-of-my-performance-counters-missing-in-the-opsmgr-scom-web-console.aspxThu, 16 Feb 2012 15:20:22 GMTThis is the most common cause of SQL outages and crashes. The SQL transaction logs multiply until they completely fill up the hard disk, causing the databases to go offline and disrupting service to any application depending upon SQL including mission critical applications like SharePoint, Lync, Project Server, etc. This is preventable by doing one of two things: 1) Change the database recovery ...IT Teamhttp://blogs.catapultsystems.com/IT/archive/2012/02/16/sql-transaction-logs-filling-up-disk.aspxThu, 16 Feb 2012 14:55:20 GMTSo I received a pretty good response to the idea about a virtual Office 365 User Group. I am actually looking to get things off the ground in the next couple of weeks. I am working with an Office 365 MVP in Australia, Loryan Strant, @thecloudmouth and http://thecloudmouth.com/ recommend you follow via twitter and read his blog, to work with me on the User Group. We have talked about some ideas aro...Sean McNeillhttp://blogs.catapultsystems.com/smcneill/archive/2012/02/15/office-365-user-group-update.aspxWed, 15 Feb 2012 19:56:00 GMT