IMPORTANT : Allways perform a FULL Backup of the database before doing anything to it !!! ALSO : It is advised that you open a case at Microsoft before doing this - directly editing the database is not supported and you may find yourself in an unsupported state if anything goes wrong. So I have...

Something strange happened recently where we tried to install OM 2012 Reporting, but that failed with the follwing error message logged into the installation log file: Warn: :Message:SRSPolicySetter SoapException Exception: System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The user or group name '{ 2537B367...

Ran into a nice issue when actvating advanced network performance monitoring on a Cisco ASA firewall. In the Cisco system logs: "incoming SNMP request ( # bytes) from IP address IP_ADDRESS and PORT PORT_NUMBER Interface "inside" exceeds data buffer size, discarding the SNMP request" This scenario...