1. Den mest naturlige årsaken er at du gjør en restore eller ikke fullførte din forrige restore riktig
Løsning:
Fullfør restore av log-backups eller kjør RESTORE DATABASE WITH RECOVERY for å få database online. Alternativt, gjør en restore på nytt.

2. Hvis du mangler backup og log-filen, og mener at databasen ble lukket på forsvarlig måte, så kan du attache en mdf-fil (data) uten å ha ldf-filen (log)
Løsning:
CREATE DATABASE TestDb ON (FILENAME = N’E:\FilenDin.mdf’) FOR ATTACH_REBUILD_LOG

3. Hvis du mangler backup og databasen er korrupt pga “servercrash” gjerne kombinert med “tomt for diskplass”
Løsning:

–Fjern den gamle databasen din
–Lag en database som så lik som de gamle som mulig både med tanke på navn og størrelser
CREATE DATABASE [Databasen]
ON PRIMARY
( NAME = [Databasen]_Data,
FILENAME = N’E:\[Databasen].mdf’,
SIZE = 2048, MAXSIZE = 2048,
FILEGROWTH = 10% )
LOG ON
( NAME = [Databasen]_Log,
FILENAME = N’E:\[Databasen].ldf’,
SIZE = 2048, MAXSIZE = 2048,
FILEGROWTH = 1MB ) ;
GO

ALTER DATABASE [Databasen] SET EMERGENCY
–(Dette er det samme “UPDATE SET = -32768″ som ble brukt før 2008)

ALTER DATABASE [Databasen] SET SINGLE_USER

–Her “kan” du miste data
DBCC CHECKDB ([Databasen], REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS)
–Kjør samme igjen
DBCC CHECKDB ([Databasen], REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS)

ALTER DATABASE [Databasen] SET MULTI_USER
ALTER DATABASE [Databasen] SET ONLINE

–ENJOY!

I tillegg er Lync 2010 klienter for iPhone, iPad, Android, og Nokia Symbian blitt levert for godkjenning på sine respektive app store.

Lync 2010 mobil klient kombinerer direktemeldinger, konferanser og ring i en enkelt applikasjon som både er gjenkjennelig for Lync brukere og optimalisert for mobil produktivitet.

Les mer her http://lync.microsoft.com/en-us/Product/UserInterfaces/Pages/lync-2010-mobile.aspx.

Hva er kravet for å kjøre Lync Mobile?

1. Først og fremst så må du ha en Lync konto, enten On-Premise eller i Office 365.
2. Hvis du har en Lync Server infrastruktur installert On-Premise, så må infrastrukturen oppdateres med Mobility Service. Dette er en installasjonspakke gjort tilgjengelig forrige måned som bygger på November 2011 Cumulative Update. Dette omfatter også Autodiscover Service og Push Notification Service.

Autodiscover Service for Lync gjør at mobile klienter automatisk vil finne riktig Mobility Service URL (alternativt må dette tastes inn manuelt på hver mobil). I tillegg så må det implementeres Push Notification Service for å støtte Apple iOS og Windows Phone klienter, da mobil klienten på disse ikke kan kjøre i bakgrunn og være tilgjengelig for direktemeldinger, voice samtaler og videre. På Android og Nokia Symbian er ikke dette nødvendig da klienten vil ligge i bakgrunn.

Ta kontakt hvis du ønsker mer informasjon om mobil klient og mobility service, og hvordan du kan komme i gang med Lync Mobile!

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/crmnorway/archive/2011/11/03/dagens-g-228-stbloggare-p-229-l-andr-233-kj-248-niksen-fr-229-n-skill.aspx

Analysts Examine Latest Industry Trends During Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, October 16-20, in Orlando

Orlando, Fla., October 18, 2011— Gartner, Inc. today highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2012. The analysts presented their findings during Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, being held here through October 20.

Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt.

A strategic technology may be an existing technology that has matured and/or become suitable for a wider range of uses. It may also be an emerging technology that offers an opportunity for strategic business advantage for early adopters or with potential for significant market disruption in the next five years. These technologies impact the organization’s long-term plans, programs and initiatives.

“These top 10 technologies will be strategic for most organizations, and IT leaders should use this list in their strategic planning process by reviewing the technologies and how they fit into their expected needs,” said David Cearley, vice president and Gartner fellow.

“Organizations should start exploratory projects to look at promised candidate technology and kick off a search for combinations of information sources, including social sites and unstructured data that may be mined for insights,” said Carl Claunch, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner.

The top 10 strategic technologies for 2012 include:

Media Tablets and Beyond. Users can choose between various form factors when it comes to mobile computing. No single platform, form factor or technology will dominate and companies should expect to manage a diverse environment with two to four intelligent clients through 2015. IT leaders need a managed diversity program to address multiple form factors, as well as employees bringing their own smartphones and tablet devices into the workplace.

Enterprises will have to come up with two mobile strategies – one to address the business to employee (B2E) scenario and one to address the business to consumer (B2C) scenario. On the B2E front, IT must consider social goals, business goals, financial goals, and risk management goals. On the B2C front, which includes business to business (B2B) activities to support consumers, IT needs to address a number of additional issues such as surfacing and managing APIs to access enterprise information and systems, integration with third-party applications, integration with various partners for capabilities such as search and social networking, and delivery through app stores.

Mobile-Centric Applications and Interfaces. The user interface (IU) paradigm in place for more than 20 years is changing. UIs with windows, icons, menus, and pointers will be replaced by mobile-centric interfaces emphasizing touch, gesture, search, voice and video. Applications themselves are likely to shift to more focused and simple apps that can be assembled into more complex solutions. These changes will drive the need for new user interface design skills.

Building application user interfaces that span a variety of device types, potentially from many vendors, requires an understanding of fragmented building blocks and an adaptable programming structure that assembles them into optimized content for each device. Mobile consumer application platform tools and mobile enterprise platform tools are emerging to make it easier to develop in this cross-platform environment. HTML5 will also provide a long term model to address some of the cross-platform issues. By 2015, mobile Web technologies will have advanced sufficiently, so that half the applications that would be written as native apps in 2011 will instead be delivered as Web apps.

Contextual and Social User Experience. Context-aware computing uses information about an end-user or objects environment, activities, connections and preferences to improve the quality of interaction with that end-user or object. A contextually aware system anticipates the user’s needs and proactively serves up the most appropriate and customized content, product or service. Context can be used to link mobile, social, location, payment and commerce. It can help build skills in augmented reality, model-driven security and ensemble applications. Through 2013, context aware applications will appear in targeted areas such as location-based services, augmented reality on mobile devices, and mobile commerce.

On the social front, the interfaces for applications are taking on the characteristics of social networks. Social information is also becoming a key source of contextual information to enhance delivery of search results or the operation of applications.

Internet of Things. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a concept that describes how the Internet will expand as sensors and intelligence are added to physical items such as consumer devices or physical assets and these objects are connected to the Internet. The vision and concept have existed for years, however, there has been an acceleration in the number and types of things that are being connected and in the technologies for identifying, sensing and communicating. These technologies are reaching critical mass and an economic tipping point over the next few years. Key elements of the IoT include:

• Embedded sensors: Sensors that detect and communicate changes are being embedded, not just in mobile devices, but in an increasing number of places and objects.
• Image Recognition: Image recognition technologies strive to identify objects, people, buildings, places logos, and anything else that has value to consumers and enterprises. Smartphones and tablets equipped with cameras have pushed this technology from mainly industrial applications to broad consumer and enterprise applications.
• Near Field Communication (NFC) payment: NFC allows users to make payments by waving their mobile phone in front of a compatible reader. Once NFC is embedded in a critical mass of phones for payment, industries such as public transportation, airlines, retail and healthcare can explore other areas in which NFC technology can improve efficiency and customer service.

App Stores and Marketplaces. Application stores by Apple and Android provide marketplaces where hundreds of thousands of applications are available to mobile users. Gartner forecasts that by 2014, there will be more than 70 billion mobile application downloads from app stores every year. This will grow from a consumer-only phenomena to an enterprise focus. With enterprise app stores, the role of IT shifts from that of a centralized planner to a market manager providing governance and brokerage services to users and potentially an ecosystem to support entrepreneurs. Enterprises should use a managed diversity approach to focus on app store efforts and segment apps by risk and value.

Next-Generation Analytics. Analytics is growing along three key dimensions:

1. From traditional offline analytics to in-line embedded analytics. This has been the focus for many efforts in the past and will continue to be an important focus for analytics.
2. From analyzing historical data to explain what happened to analyzing historical and real-time data from multiple systems to simulate and predict the future.
3. Over the next three years, analytics will mature along a third dimension, from structured and simple data analyzed by individuals to analysis of complex information of many types (text, video, etc…) from many systems supporting a collaborative decision process that brings multiple people together to analyze, brainstorm and make decisions.

Analytics is also beginning to shift to the cloud and exploit cloud resources for high performance and grid computing.

In 2011 and 2012, analytics will increasingly focus on decisions and collaboration. The new step is to provide simulation, prediction, optimization and other analytics, not simply information, to empower even more decision flexibility at the time and place of every business process action.

Big Data. The size, complexity of formats and speed of delivery exceeds the capabilities of traditional data management technologies; it requires the use of new or exotic technologies simply to manage the volume alone. Many new technologies are emerging, with the potential to be disruptive (e.g., in-memory DBMS). Analytics has become a major driving application for data warehousing, with the use of MapReduce outside and inside the DBMS, and the use of self-service data marts. One major implication of big data is that in the future users will not be able to put all useful information into a single data warehouse. Logical data warehouses bringing together information from multiple sources as needed will replace the single data warehouse model.

In-Memory Computing. Gartner sees huge use of flash memory in consumer devices, entertainment equipment and other embedded IT systems. In addition, it offers a new layer of the memory hierarchy in servers that has key advantages — space, heat, performance and ruggedness among them. Besides delivering a new storage tier, the availability of large amounts of memory is driving new application models. In-memory applications platforms include in-memory analytics, event processing platforms, in-memory application servers, in-memory data management and in-memory messaging.

Running existing applications in-memory or refactoring these applications to exploit in-memory approaches can result in improved transactional application performance and scalability, lower latency (less than one microsecond) application messaging, dramatically faster batch execution and faster response time in analytical applications. As cost and availability of memory intensive hardware platforms reach tipping points in 2012 and 2013, the in-memory approach will enter the mainstream.

Extreme Low-Energy Servers. The adoption of low-energy servers — the radical new systems being proposed, announced and marketed by mostly new entrants to the server business —will take the buyer on a trip backward in time. These systems are built on low-power processors typically used in mobile devices. The potential advantage is delivering 30 times or more processors in a particular server unit with lower power consumption vs. current server approaches. The new approach is well suited for certain non-compute intensive tasks such as map/reduce workloads or delivery of static objects to a website. However, most applications will require more processing power, and the low-energy server model potentially increases management costs, undercutting broader use of the approach.

Cloud Computing. Cloud is a disruptive force and has the potential for broad long-term impact in most industries. While the market remains in its early stages in 2011 and 2012, it will see the full range of large enterprise providers fully engaged in delivering a range of offerings to build cloud environments and deliver cloud services. Oracle, IBM and SAP all have major initiatives to deliver a broader range of cloud services over the next two years. As Microsoft continues to expand its cloud offering, and these traditional enterprise players expand offerings, users will see competition heat up and enterprise-level cloud services increase.

Enterprises are moving from trying to understand the cloud to making decisions on selected workloads to implement on cloud services and where they need to build out private clouds. Hybrid cloud computing which brings together external public cloud services and internal private cloud services, as well as the capabilities to secure, manage and govern the entire cloud spectrum will be a major focus for 2012. From a security perspective new certification programs including FedRAMP and CAMM will be ready for initial trial, setting the stage for more secure cloud computing. On the private cloud front, IT will be challenged to bring operations and development groups closer together using “DevOps” concepts in order to approach the speed and efficiencies of public cloud service providers.

About Gartner Symposium/ITxpo
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the world’s most important gathering of CIOs and senior IT executives. This event delivers independent and objective content with the authority and weight of the world’s leading IT research and advisory organization, and provides access to the latest solutions from key technology providers. Gartner’s annual Symposium/ITxpo events are key components of attendees’ annual planning efforts. IT executives rely on Gartner Symposium/ITxpo to gain insight into how their organizations can use IT to address business challenges and improve operational efficiency.

Kjøpe ferdig eller lage selv?

Det kan ofte være vanskelig å beslutte hva som er den mest hensiktsmessige måten å implementere nye IT systemer. Mange leverandører tilbyr, mer eller mindre, nøkkelferdige fagsystemer som skal gi en rask implementering og gi tilgang til funksjonalitet som dekker de behov man antar at bedriften har.

Andre igjen tilbyr å tilrettelegge funksjonaliteten man, i samarbeide med kunden, har kommet frem til best understøtter selskapets organisasjon, rutiner og regelverk. Av disse finnes de som bygger systemet fra bunn av, basert på tilgjengelig utviklingsverktøy – og de som baserer leveransen på et rammeverk som medfører stor grad av konfigurasjon i motsetning til programmering.

Det er en vanlig oppfatning i dag at utvikling av systemer fra «bunn av» i de fleste tilfeller viser seg å bli for tid- og kostnadskrevende.

Vi vil derfor her konsentrere oss om å se på noen forhold som kan hjelpe beslutte om det vil være mest hensiktsmessig å anskaffe en kommersiell fagapplikasjon, eller å tilpasse løsningen basert på et tilgjengelig rammeverk.

Beslutning bør fattes ut ifra hvilket alternativ man tror best vil

· Gi selskapet et effektivt arbeidsverktøy

· Kunne realiseres på tid og kostnad

· Kunne vokse og videreutvikles i takt med bedriften

Følg med på samhandle.no for mer informasjon om nyhetene i SQL Server 2012.

SQL Server 2008 SP3 ble også lansert i oktober
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27594&WT.mc_id=aff-n-in-loc–pd

Systemkrav:

• Configuration Manager 2012 er native 64 bit kode og krever 64 bit OS.
• Windows Server 2008 – 64 Bit.
• SQL Server 2008 – 64 bit (Beta 2 krever SP1 med CU10).

Admin Konsoll:

• MMC brukes ikke lenger, og man har utviklet et helt nytt konsoll i Silverlight med Office lignende dynamiske knapperader som endres ettersom man navigerer seg rundt.
• Har man delegert rettigheter til spesielle brukergrupper vil de nå kun se de objektene de har rettigheter til.
• Det er nå endelig mulig å søke etter alle objekter fra ett sted. Tidligere var det tungvidt å søke etter f.eks pakker hvis man ikke visste hvor i strukturen pakkene lå.

Site Struktur:

• Native Mode tas bort. I stedet kan man velge å sette opp sikker kommunikasjon over HTTPS for de forskjellige rollene man vil ha dette på (krever da sertifikater).
• SQL replikering erstatter mye av kommunikasjonen mellom sitene (inboxes).
• Det er nå introdusert det som kalles for "Central Administration Site (CAS)" som skal være toppnivå i site strukturen.
  Tidligere kalte man gjerne dette for en Central Site (Primary Site som var satt over de andre Primary Sitene).
  Primary Sites kan nå ikke kobles til (over eller under) en annen Primary Site, men kan kobles til en "CAS".
  For mindre kunder vil "CAS"  kjøres på samme server som Primary Siten.
  “CAS" brukes for å administrere alle sitene, og til rapportering.
  "CAS" vil ikke prosessere klient data og vil heller ikke være med i database replikeringen mellom Primary/Secondary Sitene. Databasen til "CAS" vil dermed være mye mindre enn databasen til Primary/Secondary Sitene.
• Secondary Sites kan i motsetning til Primary Sites kobles til (over eller under) en annen Secondary eller Primary Site. En av hovedgrunnene til å implementere Secondary Sites i SCCM 2007 var for å få kontroll over båndbreddebruk mellom siter. Dette kan nå styres pr. distribusjonspunkt og gjør at man kan forenkle site strukturen vesentlig.
  Secondary Sites krever nå SQL Server eller SQL Server Express. Tidligere brukte Secondary Sites databasen til sin Primary Site Server.

  Secondary Site databasen er med i database replikeringen sammen med Primary Sitene.

Site Komponenter

• Standard Reporting Point forsvinner og er erstattet med Reporting Services Point.
• PXE Service Point forsvinner som egen rolle og er nå en del av konfigurasjonen av et Distribution Point.
• Server Locator Point forsvinner og funksjonaliteten er tatt inn i Management Point rollen.
• Branch Distribution Pont forsvinner og kan erstattes enten av et standard distribusjons punkt som nå kan installeres på en standard Windows 7 klient, eller ved å bruke BranchCache.
• Man kan nå sette opp flere Management Points pr. site uten å måtte konfigurere NLB.
• Man kan nå også sette opp flere SMS provider roller.

Software Updates / OS Deployment

• Man kan endelig lage regler for automatisk godkjenning av patcher.
• Det vil også være enklere å få oppdatert et image med nye patcher.
• CD/DVD/USB media er nå site uavhengig. Tidligere måtte dette lages på den siten det skulle brukes.
• Det vil også komme en oppdatert versjon av Microsoft Deployment Toolkit som vil støtte SCCM 2012. Dette kommer vi tilbake ved en senere anledning.

Applikasjons Distribusjon

• Det tas i bruk en helt ny modell for applikasjons distribusjon hvor brukeren er i fokus i stedet for maskinen.
• Applikasjoner vil være tilgjengelig for brukeren i en web portal som heter “Software Catalog”.
• Man kan lage regler på hvordan applikasjoner skal installeres hos brukeren avhengig av hvilken device brukeren sitter på.
• Man kan fortsatt bruke pakker og programmer som tidligere, men da får man mindre funksjonalitet.
• Det følger med verktøy for å migrere ‘pakker (sccm 2007)’ til ‘applikasjoner (sccm 2012)’.

Mobile Enheter

• Exchange Server connector gir deg basic inventory informasjon og muligheten til å ta remote wipe av mobile enheter.

Migrering

• Det følger med grafisk migrerings verktøy som kan migrere objekter/pakker/image osv fra SCCM 2007 til SCCM 2012.

Dette var noe av alle nyhetene som kommer i Configuration Manager 2012. Det er enda flere godbiter å glede seg til som f.eks Forest Discovery, bedre Boundary håndtering, ny SCCM klient og enda mer som vi får komme tilbake til når produktet blir lansert.

Tips:

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligent Developer Studio (BIDS) finnes ikke som standalone installasjonsmedia, men må installeres via en feature installasjon fra SQL Server 2008 installasjonsmedia.
• Når du har BIDS på plass, finner du her Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Fetch Authoring Extension.

- Men grunnen til at jeg satt meg ned for å skrive et lite blogginnlegg nå var egentlig ikke for å lage en oppskrift på hvordan man bruker Fetch XML til å skrive rapporter, men for å dele mine erfaringer med å bruke forhåndsdefinerte parametere i denne type rapporter. Jeg har brukt mye tid i dag på å lese mye feil i diverse forum og blogger. Løsningen viste seg å være veldig enkel.

Behovet mitt var å lage en fetch xml rapport som var kontekstavhengig, – en rapport som kjørte kun på valgte fakturaer og ikke alle fakturaer.

Fra CRM 3 og 4 husker vi prefikset CRMAF_, men i CRM 2011 fungerer ikke dette, -Jeg forsøkte meg på ulike kombinasjoner av parametere og filtere, men fikk ikke ønsket resultat før jeg fant denne siden på TechNet.

Her er en en nedstrippet versjon av min xml som gir meg en rapport som kjører kun på valgte fakturer:

<fetch version=”1.0″ output-format=”xml-platform” mapping=”logical” distinct=”false”>
  <entity name=”invoice” enableprefiltering=”true” prefilterparametername=”CRM_FilteredInvoice”>
      <attribute name=”invoiceid” />
  </entity>
</fetch>

Det finnes også en javscript konverteringsapplikasjon: http://crm2011scriptconvert.codeplex.com/
Min erfaring med denne er at den har for mange begrensninger for å være nyttig.

Get the value from a CRM field
var varMyValue = Xrm.Page.getAttribute(“CRMFieldSchemaName”).getValue() ;
 
Set the value of a CRM field
Xrm.Page.getAttribute(“po_CRMFieldSchemaName”).setValue(‘My New Value’);
 
Hide/Show a tab/section
Xrm.Page.ui.tabs.get(5).SetVisible(false);
Xrm.Page.ui.tabs.get(5).SetVisible(true);
 
Call the onchange event of a field
Xrm.Page.getAttribute(“CRMFieldSchemaName”).fireOnChange();
 
Get the selected value of picklist
Xrm.Page.getAttribute(“CRMFieldSchemaName”).getSelectedOption().text;
 
Set the requirement level
Xrm.Page.getAttribute(“CRMFieldSchemaName”).setRequiredLevel(“none”);
Xrm.Page.getAttribute(“CRMFieldSchemaName”).setRequiredLevel(“required”);
Xrm.Page.getAttribute(“CRMFieldSchemaName”).setRequiredLevel(“recommended”);
 
Set the focus to a field
Xrm.Page.getControl(“CRMFieldSchemaName”).setFocus(true);
 
Stop an on save event
event.returnValue = false;
 
Return array of strings of users security role GUIDs:
Xrm.Page.context.getUserRoles()
 
Hide/Show Tabs and Sections
 function setVisibleTabSection(tabname, sectionname, show) {
    var tab = Xrm.Page.ui.tabs.get(tabname);
    if (tab != null) {
        if (sectionname == null)
            tab.setVisible(show);
        else {
            var section = tab.sections.get(sectionname);
            if (section != null) {
                section.setVisible(show);
                if (show)
                    tab.setVisible(show);
            }
        }
    }
}