As part of the configuration for the SharePoint 2010 management pack, there is a SharePointMP.config file which needs to be edited to include the various SharePoint servers in the environment including the databases used by SharePoint. In an environment where there may be a significant number of these and you do not have an existing…
I have a set of records for employee utilization, and I wanted a quick way to rank them from highest utilization to lowest utilization. It turns out that the ROWNUMBER() function did exactly what I needed. Here is an example of my data: ConsultantNameUtilizationPercentConsultant A100.5%Consultant B87.4%Consultant C95.0%Consultant D101.2%The following query can be used to return…
If you are having issues with SharePoint Online and your vanity domain playing well together there could be a "simple" reason why. If you have a vanity domain ending with "sharepoint.com" like "justsharepoint.com" or "idevelopsharepoint.com" it will not work with SharePoint Online at this time. Well that’s kind of the truth, the public or anonymous pieces…
Next Thursday, September 20th at 11am Mountain, I will be presenting a Lync and Learn session. This session will focus on the Office 365 Lync Online Lync to Phone Service. Lync to Phone enables dial tone to Lync Online via Jajah. I hope you can join the session and learn more about Lync to Phone,…
I had a client who is running OpsMgr 2012 and hasn’t applied an update rollup yet and they were asking if it makes sense to apply UR2 or to wait until SP1 is available. Relevant links: UR2 Download: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30421 KB link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2706783 System Center 2012 SP1 – beta was just released on 9/10/12: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34607 The…
This week’s trivia… Ever wonder why it’s called a spreadsheet? According to Wikipedia, the word "spreadsheet" referred to the format of paper-based accounting ledgers, where two long sheets opened, or "spread" across the center binding, much like a newspaper, with categories in columns along the top and invoices on one side and payment amounts on…
I received from feedback from a colleague of mine at Catapult (Paul Johnson) about an issue he has identified when UR2 is installed. The summary is that in UR2 all management servers must be members of the All Management Servers Resource pool even though it is documented to remove management servers which are dedicated to…
Often I am asked to create a direct link to a SharePoint list (the form of which is customized using InfoPath) and then redirect the user to a location other than the SharePoint list when saving the form. Perhaps a simple task, but since I found some confusing posts online regarding the issue, I wanted to…
During some recent testing of Operations Manager 2012, we needed to add the backwards compatibility management pack as it was required for several of the management packs including: Microsoft.CommerceServer.2007 (Converted) Microsoft.Windows.Server.GroupPolicy.2003 (Converted) Microsoft.Windows.Server.InternetNamingService (Converted) Microsoft.Windows.Server.RRAS (Converted) We had already also been monitoring Service Manager 2012 which requires agentless monitoring as discussed at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/operationsmanagerdeployment/thread/48396343-70b9-42c6-9d84-79955365ed93/…
Due to the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) in Orlando, FL this month I originally move the next meeting of the Office 365 International User Group to October 2nd. Well just a week ago I was invited up to Redmond to attend a Microsoft National Technical Partner Team Ranger Event for Office 365 and Office 365…
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