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Month: December 2010

How to: Configure Microsoft Nework Load Balancing (NLB) in a Virtualized Environment for Windows 2008 R2 on a Cisco Switched Network

How to: Configure Microsoft Nework Load Balancing (NLB) in a Virtualized Environment for Windows 2008 R2 on a Cisco Switched Network

Firstly, can I make this blog post’s title any longer?  Yes, I didn’t include that I am doing this for SharePoint 2010, so thanks for the smart-alecked thoughts subconscious! Scenario: Using VMware vSphere 4.0 server to host Windows 2008 R2 64bit Servers which host SharePoint 2010 Server and looking to use Microsoft’s NLB. Set up NLB in mulitcast mode as recommended by everyone in the blogosphere and some different Microsoft articles and viola!  It works…  until 5 minutes after implementation…

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How to: Get your Managed Account passwords when they are changed automatically by SharePoint 2010

How to: Get your Managed Account passwords when they are changed automatically by SharePoint 2010

Scenario: Using Managed Accounts the way that SharePoint 2010 is designed you allow SharePoint 2010 to manage your password changes automatically for you. Your farm gets into an inconsistent state, or you allow SharePoint 2010 to change your farm admin account and you realize that you cannot start the UPS without knowing the farm account password. What do you do? Resolution: Run the following PowerShell command from the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell as a Farm Administrator: function Bindings() { return…

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What are the PowerShell cmdlets that correspond to STSADM commands?

What are the PowerShell cmdlets that correspond to STSADM commands?

Now that SharePoint 2010 is intertwined with PowerShell have you been looking for that cipher that tells you what PowerShell command you can run to do all of the STSADM commands that you know and love from SharePoint 2007 in SharePoint 2010?  I was too!  Here is the list that I have come up with (combined with our good friends at TechNet): PowerShell cmdlets STSADM Commands Enable-SPFeature Activatefeature Enable-SPInfoPathFormTemplate Activateformtemplate New-SPAlternateUrl Addalternatedomain Mount-SPContentDatabase Addcontentdb   New-SPContentDatabase Install-SPDataConnectionFile Adddataconnectionfile New-SPExcelFileLocation Add-ecsfiletrustedlocation…

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SharePoint 2010 and the Site Directory

SharePoint 2010 and the Site Directory

My colleague and friend, Derek Martin of Slalom Consulting, just posted about a bug that we found with SharePoint 2010 and the Site Directory.  The short story is when you enable the Site Directory and you are using SharePoint 2010 in Claims mode for your web apps (including the site that houses the site directory) Central Administration is in Classic mode (the default and recommended way) and actions that call a web service from CA that touch back to the…

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