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A while ago I was trying to create a farm at a client site and ran into an issue where I couldn’t create the farm because I would receive the error message “Could not obtain exclusive lock on database ‘model’. Retry the operation later.” Just to note, after having gotten past this step (which I’ll …

A note from your friendly neighbourhood itgroove Blog admin: Our friend and former colleague Robert Dick has started up a new blog: http://thebeagle.beagledom.ca/ Stay current with his latest posts there.  

This nasty piece of work went live on Monday sending out a phishing scam with the subject “View Contract Sheets” asking you to enter your Gmail credentials. If you did it emailed itself to everyone on your contact list. Since then Google says they have fixed it and their recommend fix was to change your …

I’m finally giving up on Ninite as there are now to many programs behind their paywall. I have been testing an alternative for awhile now and it seems to work good and its free! Patch My PC Same sort of deal it lets you download a portable utility (non install) that unlike Ninite checks your …

For anyone who’s looking for a simple, CSS-only way to hide the menu option for “Change the Look” from the settings cog – this snippet will do the trick! SharePoint Online CSS: [code lang=”css”] a[aria-label="Change the look"] { display: none !important; } [/code] SharePoint 2013 CSS: [code lang=”css”] #suiteBarButtons li[description="Change the look of your site"] …

A picturesque stroll through the incremental migration process using the Sharegate Migration tool. Start by using the “Copy SharePoint Content” option – do not use “Copy Site Objects”. Choose your source site (and fill in any credentials). Choose a library (this must be done one list or library at a time). Choose your destination. Choose …

We were seeing an issue with Nintex Forms throwing a correlation error in SharePoint 2013 when using a custom masterpage built from a SharePoint minimal masterpage. You can see the error we were seeing below. In this case, the resolution is actually quite easy. All that’s needed is to remove the DeltaSPWebPartManager code block from …

This one might be common knowledge, but it stumped me for bit so I thought I would make a post. Adding a group through the Office 365 admin center only give you one option for email addresses. As in you cant change if from your default tenancy address. To do it like you normally would …

Journalists of all stripes have used the notation –30— at the end of an article or “dispatch” (ooo, there’s an older term) to denote that there’s nothing more, it is the end of the article.  Well, I’m using it to mark the end of this blog, at least in its current form. After 7 very …

I keep running into this issue with my Symantec DLO where it would complain the license is invalid all of a sudden. I talked to Veritas and they helped me and I couldn’t find this info on the web so I thought I would post it just in case anyone else has the same issue. …