System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format

Ran into this error when running the SharePoint Foundation 2010 configuration wizard The issue was that a website in IIS had an IPV6 binding. Apparently the team that built the wizard never thought to test on a machine with an IPV6 binding, they also still haven’t released a patch / update for this. How does something like this get past QA? Seriously.
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Error unregistering 4.0 plugin after upgrade to 2011

Hello, I’ve recently come across an issue where we had a third-party plugin that would not unregister using the registration tool or the web interface. The error message inner details are as follows: System.IO.FileLoadException: Microsoft Dynamics CRM has experienced an error After much trial and error, and with some help from Microsoft support we were able to determine that the server did not have Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.dll (x64) installed in the GAC. Now I won’t go into the obvious question of why it needs to have the old SDK dll in order to unregister a plugin (the new one is supposed to be...
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