Today I’m at a customer upgrading their SMS 2003 to SCCM 2007 with an in place upgrade. You would think this should be simple, right? Wrong. I started with the normal, make sure the SMS 2003 on SP2 or higher…which was on SP3. Then checked for Windows updates, and added other normal required software. Then,…
PowerShell script that will move the SharePoint log files and set the retention of the log files. To run this script you will need to set the PowerShell execution policy using the following PowerShell command: set-executionpolicy Unrestricted Copy the following code and paste it into a PowerShell script file like SetSPLog.ps1. To call this from…
When developing scripts (and almost anything else) I prefer to hard-code any settings thay may need to be changed later. One method that I employ while writing PowerShell scripts is the use of a settings.ini file. In this file I can place any configuration information and when I need to change a setting or…
I was at a customer a couple of months ago and they hadn’t turned on DNS Scavenging. To all of your Network Engineers and Network Administrators, I firmly believe this is one of those items which is a must if you utilize Windows DNS. I created this document for my customer to turn this feature…
Join us for the March 11th meeting of the Central Texas SharePoint User Group! Stump the Panel! March Program Description: This month we’re going "Back to Basics" with a Stump the Panel Session. SharePoint experts Matt McDermott, Brad Freels, Coan Dillahunty, Bruce Weatherford, and Janet Taylor will be answering your toughest questions! We will be…
While I was trying to figure out why I couldn’t get the SMSDBMON.LOG file to stop repeating this error message over and over every second and filling up my server. I was getting desperate and called into MS support. Well, I opened a ticket and they did contact me within 2 hours, but by that…
Ever since moving to Vista and Office 2007 and MOSS everyone I know with this same configuration has complained about the constant prompting in Office 2007. Here is the scenario and the fix as detailed by one of our AWSOME Desktop Support Engineers at Catapult, Greg (Awesome-O) Tate: What’s the difference? I found a fix…
Vegas anyone? Microsoft has finally announced that the 2009 SharePoint conference will be held October 19-22, 2009 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. This is your chance to get up to speed on SharePoint “14” (or whatever they are going to call it by then…)! Jump over to http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/spc2009.aspx for all the details. Cheers!
What do you do when you open your Search Administration site and it looks like this? Or you open your Search Queries Report (SpUsageSSPSearchQueries.aspx) looks like this: Or every time you open the Search Query Report you see the following in your Event Logs: Error Details Event Type: Error Event Source: DCOM Event Category: None Event ID: 10016 Date: 1/30/2009…
While I was out doing an installation at a customer I noticed I started having problems with the SQL server’s Windows Application Log. Below you will find the error and the solution on how to resolve this. This took me 3 days and a call to Microsoft to resolve this problem since I couldn’t really…
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