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…
When attempting to install a MOM 2005 console in an environment I had difficulty trying to find the appropriate link to download the .Net 1.1 framework for x64 systems which was causing the prerequisite checker to fail. For reference (mine as well since I know that I will forget this otherwise), the appropriate download for…
*If necessary Paging data in your application, be it thin or thick client, is a frequent need: list of customers, address directory, invoice details, etc. – any number of situations may crop up where the paging grid in the UI becomes a necessity. If your data is big enough to be paged in your display,…
I have an environment where we have a forest that does not currently have PKI available and as a result we haven’t been able to install agents on the servers in that forest. This is a temporary situation as we will have PKI in place soon and will be able to fully monitor these systems…
It has been a terribly busy month – I actually started writing this post at the end of January, but only now am I able to finish it and fire it off to my blog. Feel free to post or e-mail me with any follow up questions I ran across an issue at one client…
The following was brought to me by Bryan Dehner who is a colleague of mine. I’m looking forward to when he will have his blog online for posts just like this one! ——– Question: What is a way to backup Exchange natively on a Windows 2008 server? Since we do a fair amount of Exchange…
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