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Power BI error – OData: The feed’s metadata document appears to be invalid.
Power BI error on connecting to Dynamics 365 We encountered the “OData: The feed’s metadata document appears to be invalid.” whilst trying to connect Power BI desktop to Dynamics 365 v9.1. Apparently Dynamics 365 v9 is not yet supported for this connection. The fix is simple – just replace the version number in the api…
The importance of health checks
Most commonly an IT health check is seen as a security assessment of your infrastructure. This is extremely important but should not be the end of the story. It is a good idea to have specialist health checks across your technology stack to have a more complete picture of your inventory, vulnerabilities, compliance and return…
Defining the Value Proposition
Defining the Value Proposition Questions Who are your customers? Identify which customers are going to benefit from your product or service. In B2B this may be industry verticals, department or role. For example, our customers can be from any industry but the department we support is normally IT and the end users would be the…
12 tips for your database strategy
Database Strategy Tips BAS Technologies have helped many clients establish a healthy database strategy tailored to their business needs. Firstly, in my opinion, any strategy must be clear and easy to understand. I have seen too many strategies that go too deep too early in some areas and ignore areas that really matter. Apply KISS…
Office 365 giving mailbox permissions to another user
Office 365 mailbox delegation Sometimes you may want to give or delegate mailbox access to another user such as an assistant. For multiple users working as a team, you may consider a shared mailbox instead. You have three options in Office 365 as to how you delegate permissions: Read and Manage Send as Send on…
16 database recovery strategy mistakes
High Availability and Disaster Recovery statistics Statistics from the “2018 State of Resilience” report by Syncsort, a leader in big data software solutions, highlight an increase in pressure IT leaders are feeling to ensure security, high availability and disaster recovery. Having surveyed 5,632 IT professionals globally on data protection strategies, the report shows a staggering…
Linux Y2038 bug
Remember Y2K? Well for those that have not yet heard, Unix/Linux came ready packaged with a Y2038 bug. Don’t panic yet though, Y2K became virtually a non-event because there was a lot of pre-work done to prevent catastrophy and Y2038 should go a similar way. Y2038 is caused by the use of a 32bit integer…
Bug 12712810 – NPE after deleting a partner in SAML2 provider
We had a production issue in applying SAML authentication to a weblogic managed server. We have deleted and then recreated the providers but when selecting the management page for the SAMLIdentityAsserter, we had the following error: “weblogic.management.utils.InvalidParameterException:” The logs showed the following errors: “<BEA-000000> <Detected possible orphaned reference to deleted object “beaSAML2EndpointBindingLocation=” and ” <BEA-240003>…
Oracle iAS upgrade to 11g/12c – the WebLogic license trap
When upgrading to 11g/12c in Oracle iAS applications, the infrastructure will now include WebLogic Server. It is easy to mistakenly think that the existing licenses can be ported across with no change – wrong, well partially….. The default WebLogic Server installation will require an additional Standard, Enterprise or WebLogic Suite license which you can purchase…
How to diagnose a ORA-00600 Error
The ORA-00600 error is an internal error generated in the Oracle Database software that is not captured by another error trap. Oracle provide special tools to assist in the diagnosis: The current preference is to upload the relevant trace file and alert log to the standalone ORA-00600 troubleshooting tool. See My Oracle Support document 153788.1 for more information on…