Today I troubleshot an error that bubbled up in PerformancePoint Service's Dashboard Designer while attempting (and failing) to create a data connection. The first visible error was: Dashboard Designer "An unexpected system error has occurred...

It's one of those moments that messes with your sanity. You need to run an stsadm command that is sufficiently complicated that you're tempted to copy and paste rather than to type just so that you can be sure not to fat finger it. You paste the command...

Problem Summary: SharePoint Administrators lost the ability to browse successfully to Central Admin on a SharePoint 2010 server Errors: 1) In the browser: An Unexpected Error Occurred 2) In the ULS Log: w3wp.exe 0x15EC SharePoint Foundation...