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…
I was looking for a simple way to identify what systems existed in our environment which were not running at the service pack levels which we require in our environment (and patches which are not current). As a quick starting point, there are two existing reports which give a lot of this information: Count Operating…
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…
Paul Andrew has just announced that the SharePoint Disposable Object checking tool SPDisposeCheck has been released into the wild. Jump over to: http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew/archive/2009/01/29/spdisposecheck-v1-3-1-is-released.aspx and have a read. If you are a developer and don’t know about the issues related to disposable objects in SharePoint then have a read of Roger Lamb’s blog post on the…
I recently helped a client with a crawl configuration that turned out to be a bit trickier than I expected. The client has a page that generates "hidden" links to a library of PDF documents. The URL to this page was simple enough: http://www.docs.company.com. This page had several links on it that categorized the folders…
I found this on TechNet and had to work through it to make it work. I’ve added pics and better explanations on how to add and deploy the script to work for you. I found the scripts at this URL in TechNet. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/configmgrosd/thread/5924e840-eb6e-48c1-858f-766a5be625a6/ This script will detect if the current assigned value for the computer…
As part of a new environment that I am working in we are looking for the ability to automatically perform functions for servers which are added into the environment. As an example of this we automated the deployment of the Operations Manager agent for servers in this environment as discussed in http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!1034.entry. Our next step…
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