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Yesterday I thought its time to convert my SharePoint 2010 development environment Hyper-V vhd to a new vhdx. Why bother? I used my environment hosted on my lovely Lenovo W520 to develop a migration tool to convert a SP2007 environment to a SP2010 environment. Therefore I needed ~300GB free space – easy with Hyper-V. Just extend your virtual drive and you are good to go. Afterwards you can easily shrink the disk back again – at least I thought so.

Corey Burke (@cburke007) and Todd Klindt (@toddklindt)– Entertaining SharePoint Administration

In this session, we cover what’s new in SharePoint 2013. First, we cover installing SharePoint 2013 and configuring your new farm. This session provides what to need to start planning your new SharePoint 2013 farm and dovetails nicely into Part 2, which covers changes in SharePoint 2013 the SharePoint administrator should know about. We cover changes to how you’ll plan your farm topology. We also cover the changes to the Search service application and how that impacts scale. Finally, we spend some time talking about everyone’s favorite part of SharePoint Server, the User Profile Service.

That’s quite a lot for one session – but Todd is a fast speaker. The session also includes cheap jokes about SharePoint Developers, guaranteed!

So here are my session notes:

I installed SharePoint 2013 on a test system yesterday and was faced with the problem that the search, after successfully provisioning it - did not work. Boo! Symptoms There are several noticeable Symptoms The crawl log shows 1 Top Level Error and 1 Error: Crawl log with 1 Top Level Error and 1 Error The Eventlog shows some warnings and an error Eventlog with the error “The gatherer service cannot be initialized”