I recently read that the State of Minnesota spent $41 million, not including legal fees, on software that was never completed. The program was supposed to simplify and automate much of the processing for MinnesotaCare eligibility determinations. This system would speed up processing and reduce fraud. In reading the article, I felt it was important…
I’ve been spending a lot of my free time working to take out all of the stops on my upcoming presentation for the Microsoft Management Summit (OpsMgr Evolution). This blog article will discuss how to create a custom SQL Synthetic Transaction which writes to a table on a schedule basis and will be discussed…
There are a gazillion informative blog articles already out there regarding U2U’s CAML Query Builder tool. However, there are also a billion useless links and navigation rabbit holes to versions of the tool that will not install in a SharePoint 2010 environment. What you need for that is the standalone client tool that will allow…
You might have noticed in my previous post that I was using CAML.NET to build up SharePoint CAML queries specifically for an SPSiteDataQuery object. I want to be clear that I was unsuccessful at leveraging SPSiteDataQuery to retrieve that data I needed from SharePoint 2010. I was so excited to be cruising along with intellisense…
It is 2011, right? Yes, but there are still plenty of SharePoint 2007 sites out there running on Windows 2003 servers. Those aren’t the latest and greatest versions, but until the time when those servers and applications are upgraded, issues will arise and need to be resolved. One such issue is opening the explorer view…
Check this out – posted by a colleague of mine at Catapult today! https://www.catapultsystems.com/mlist/archive/2011/03/17/the-elusive-documentation-link-in-operations-manager-2007-r2.aspx Good stuff Marty and a great way to start blogging man!
I really liked the feature added in OpsMgr 2007 R2 that lets you download and import new management packs directly from Microsoft’s catalog web service: But later I started going back to the old way of downloading the management packs separately, since this also gets the documentation (usually in Microsoft Word format). No…
So I was challenged today to leverage the SPSiteDataQuery class to access list data that spans multiple lists/sites instead of just enumerating all of those sites and lists and then using a standard SPQuery against each list. First off, it’s worth noting that I could not just use examples in this link->, because I don’t…
Recently I was working with a client and we were talking about “shimming” an application using Microsoft’s Compatibility Administrator so it worked in Windows 7 . We ran into an odd error. When we tried to shim one of their apps we got the error “This version of the Compatibility Administrator only supports applying compatibility…
We were recently debugging some issues in an environment where reports are not running correctly due to an error when the report is launched. To debug on this, we were attempting to run reports directly from SRS but we were prompted for these two values (Time Zone, Time Zone Name) to run a report such…
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