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Month: July 2011

How to use PowerShell to get quota information in a usable way

How to use PowerShell to get quota information in a usable way

There are many good resources out there about how to create, modify, & set quotas using PowerShell, that isn’t an issue. Zach Rosenfield has a good post on Managing Bulk Site Collection Quotas in PowerShell and there are dozens of others out there who can give you all of the information about making changes to quotas that you want. My problem was how do I tell what a site’s quota template assignment is and how close they are to the…

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What’s new in SQL Server Code Name “Denali” CTP3

What’s new in SQL Server Code Name “Denali” CTP3

Be sure to check out the What’s New (SQL Server “Denali”) site for full details, but here are the highlights in this PUBLIC release (no TAP NDA material here!) are: SQL Server Installation Installing Prerequisites During SQL Server Code-Named “Denali” Setup Windows PowerShell 2.0 is a prerequisite, but not installed by the SQL Server Setup wizard .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 is a requirement, but is not installed by the SQL Server Setup wizard, it  requires you to download and install…

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How to disable Shutdown Event Tracker in Windows Server 2008 R2

How to disable Shutdown Event Tracker in Windows Server 2008 R2

Scenario: You have people in your office, you are in the middle of work in 2 different Dev VMs plus Visual Studio on your host or you are working on several servers plus your local Dev VM while writing admin scripts (making this viable for Admin and Dev types alike).  Time for a reboot of your Dev VM so you click on reboot and flip back to your other work and figure you will check back in 10 minutes once…

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Review of the new storage “guidance” for SharePoint 2010 SP1

Review of the new storage “guidance” for SharePoint 2010 SP1

Rob D’Oria, father of StoragePoint, has written a very comprehensive review of the new storage “guidance” from Microsoft with regard to the limits on ContentDB size when using RBSEBS.  It is a very long post, but completely worth reading from start to finish.  For a peak at what you can expect, here is a direct excerpt from one of my favorite sections: Everyone hold on, here’s the super-hard backup/restore process you have to follow in this brave new world: Backup…

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The big news: Data Storage Changes for SharePoint 2010

The big news: Data Storage Changes for SharePoint 2010

I go on vacation for one week and they try to change the entire strategy on us, eh?  When I first started hearing rumbles about the changes announced by the Microsoft SharePoint Product Group via their blog it sounded like the world was completely changed and that all previously known storage strategies can be thrown out the window in favor of using RBS and storing whatever you want in the Content DB! Happily that is not at all what was…

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