Error 400 Creating a Sales Line Business Central

Using Power Automate, I read a pdf, automatically create a Sales Order in Business Central and then automatically create the Sales Order lines. At first I thought it might be related to concurrency but concurrency is set to 1 and I still see this error from time to time. As a temorary fix, I've added a Delay step configured to 'Run After' the Create Record step fails and another identical Create Record step configured to 'Run After' the Delay is successful. One second seems like a long delay in programming; however, we have approximately one failure every 10 Sales Orders and a Sales Order takes on average about 2 minutes to process,  so a 1 second delay becomes insignificant. Since adding the delay, I haven't seen the error.

This is the full error message, without the GUIDs

 {

  "status": 400,

  "message": "ErrorCode: Internal_ServerError

               Sorry, we just updated this page.

Reopen it, and try again." 

    "message": "ErrorCode: Internal_ServerError

                 Sorry, we just updated this page. 

                    Reopen it, and try again." 

  "source": "api.businesscentral.dynamics.com",

  "errors": []

}

Make .pfx from .cer and .key on Windows 10

The easiest way I found to do this on Windows 10 is with certutil.exe.

1. Make sure your .cer and .key have the same name e.g. domain.cer, domain.key and put them in the same directory, I use C:\cert\.
2. Open an Administrative Command Prompt and make sure you are in the C:\Windows\System32 directory
3. Type this command >certutil -mergepfx C:\cert\domain.cer, C:\cert\domain.pfx (the command assumes domain.key)
4. Before the command completes you will be asked to enter a password which you should do because most certificate upload routines demand a password protected .pfx file.

Enable Virtualisation in Gigabyte BIOS

I had virtualisation enabled and Hyper-V was working well. I then updated my NVIDIA GEForce adapter and after the restart Hyper-V was broken. It was reporting a 'Hypervisor not running' error. I suspect that something in the NVIDIA update had switched off the hypervisor autostart in the Boot configuration file. Rather than play around with editing that I removed Hyper-V, restarted and then added it again. Hyper-V came back working, I lost my switch settings but everything else was fine.

To enable the hypervisor in Gigabyte Bios with a Ryzen chip do the following:
1. Hit DEL at startup to enter BIOS configuration
2. Go to MIT / Advanced Frequency Settings / Advanced CPU Settings/
3. Enable SVM

SharePoint Error 500 Internal Server Error

I see this error quite often, usually after a server restart and the solution for me is to check that all the Application Pools are Started. The usual culprit is 'SecurityTokenServiceApplicationPool'. Find it in IIS Manager and if it's stopped then restart it, also open the Advanced Settings to refresh the Identity by re-entering the username and password.

Duplicate Entries in Start Menu - Windows 10

The solution for me was to go to repair the Office installation from Control Panel/Programs and Features/. First make sure that you only have one install of Microsoft Office. (Uninstalling and re-installing Office does not affect your data.) Remove all unnecessary installs. Highlight the valid install and select Change, from the pop-up select Online Repair and let it run to completion. This fixed the duplicate entries for me. I had a couple of machines where this didn't work and so I used this tool from Microsoft to completely uninstall and reinstall Office 365. On occasion, for really stubborn issues I've used this other tool from Microsoft to help fix them.

If all else fails you can always right click the offending entries and select uninstall.

OUTLOOK - Continually Requesting Password

There are many answers to this issue as a quick Google search will show you. For my particular configuration of Outlook, Exchange Server 2013, and Office 365 there was no solution readily available so I had to work through it and thought I'd post the solution here.

ISSUE: Outlook continuously requesting a password. Sometimes it presents an anonymous sign in box (by anonymous I mean that you can't really tell which account wants the password). You can close, (X), the password request box and Outlook continues working.

SETUP: Outlook on desktop, accessing an email account on Exchange Server 2013, Office desktop Apps installed from an Office 365 account.

SOLUTION: In Outlook, click on the 'File' tab and select Office Account. Sign out from the Account, (underlined in red in the image below). That's usually enough to silence the password requests.

For a longer term solution, sign back in to the account with a valid Office 365 Account, and then sign in to any additional password boxes that pop up with the same Office 365 Account details, change the sign in account if you have to. In my case the password boxes displayed the Exchange Account and what was actually required was the Office 365 Account.

New DC Unable to Get rID Set

I recently added another domain controller (DC) to my SBS2011 R2 network. I checked it out at the command line with >DCDiag /dnsall and found it wasn't working. Further tests with >DCDIAG /dnsall showed me that my new DC didn't receive an rID Set from the rID Master.

Running >repadmin /options <Main DC Name> showed that both inbound and outbound replications were switched off, I switched them back on and my new DC received an rID Set almost immediately.

To reset INBOUND/OUTBOUND DC replications and ensure that they are switched on run the following commands:
>repadmin /options +DISABLE_INBOUND_REPL <Main DC Name>

>repadmin /options -DISABLE_INBOUND_REPL <Main DC Name>

>repadmin /options +DISABLE_OUTBOUND_REPL <Main DC Name>

>repadmin /options -DISABLE_OUTBOUND_REPL <Main DC Name>

Useful commands for domain controller testing:
>NSLookup /?
>DCDiag /?
>repadmin /?

You can have as many DCs as you need on an SBS network as long as the FSMO rID Master role remains on the SBS server.