Update November 19, 2014 Either the upgrade to the latest version of WordPress solved my issue or whatever was causing spikes in CPU time and traffic stopped. There hasn’t been any spikes since all of this happened. I knew my personal site was low traffic so those spikes were odd. Original…
For background on this scam please visit http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/ftc-combats-tech-support-scams I believe the people that I spoke with were not from a company but rouge scammers. Remember everyone. When someone calls you be leery. Don’t trust incoming calls no matter how convincing things sounds. It’s always best to hang up. If something is ligament then that…
With some guidance from Microsoft TechNet, Edward at StackOverflow.com, and Adam at RedThree, I managed to enhance the Compliance 5 – Computers in a Collection report by separating each computer onto its own page. When exported to Excel, each “page” becomes a worksheet or tab. This could also be separated by any other field in…
For those of us who have had the unfortunate experience of trying to access CRM data using SOAP queries, it is a luxury to be able to query CRM entities using LINQ. It is pretty easy to setup your .NET project to use CRM and LINQ. Simply install the CRM SDK. This link is to…
Project Description PowerShell script that updates AD objects based on a CSV schema. First, a big thank you to Cary Landers and Nuno Mota. This effort was adapted from: https://companydirectory.codeplex.com/ by Cary Landers https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/f7b246a4-95a2-4408-b1a1-73b53003883c by Nuno Mota This script does the following: Iterates through records in a CSV For each record, looks up the AD object’s distinguishedName based…
I recently had a very eagle eyed customer point out a typo on the Self-Service Portal. If you open a request offering in the portal you will see a line at the bottom that says, “One or more reponses on this form are invalid. Click for more information.” As you can see, it should be…
I recently had a need to take the normal people search results in SharePoint Online and make them look better. In particular, use all that white space to the right of the default search results listing. Forgive the photos below. I wanted to keep the large resolution to demonstrate the functionality here. Default People Search…
This is a modification of the default report Compliance 5 – Specific Computer, but it combines the result for each computer in a collection. The report can get quite long, however, it is a much better than running the default report for each computer in a collection, exporting the data to Excel, and manually combining…
A customer of mine was looking for a way to verify that servers with multiple IP Addresses (mostly web severs) were configured to use a specific IP for all default communications. SkipAsSource is a Boolean flag which allows adding new IP Addresses that should not be used for outgoing packages unless explicitly set for use…
Adding a Geolocation column to a list in SharePoint 2013 is a bit of a pain because there’s no built-in user interface to do so. Instead, you have to add it with code. Check out Tobias Zimmergren’s article to get acquainted with the Geolocation column in SharePoint 2013: http://zimmergren.net/technical/sp-2013-getting-started-with-the-new-geolocation-field-in-sharepoint-2013. Now, to the point of my…
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