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April 2018 Blog Posts

Resolving Catastrophic Distributed Cache Failures on VMWare vSphere or ESX guest virtual machines

Ahh, Distributed Cache, everybody’s favourite SharePoint service instance, the most reliable and trouble-free implementation since User Profile Synchronization. I jest of course, it’s the most temperamental element of the current shipping release, not to mention the most ridiculous false dependency ever introduced into the product and should be killed as soon as possible. However, it is extremely important to a SharePoint Farm in terms of both functionality and ensuring maximum performance. Even in simple deployments the impact of the Search and LogonToken related caches can provide ~20% performance and throughput improvements. But what to do when it’s busted? Once...

Update: Using WMU to transfer NEFs to iOS for editing etc.

In a previous post I showed Using Nikon Wireless Utility with the Nikon D500 on iOS to download NEFs to iOS which worked for a while. However Nikon made some significant updates to SnapBridge – making it actually much better in terms of connection ease and reliability and remote photography. It’s still not much of a bridge to your snaps thou – it still restricts you to the silly 2Mb file and it only transfers JPEGs which means you need to be shooting them. Rubbish. These updates also break the procedure detailed previously. I fiddled around with qDslrDashboard – but...