With the devastating storm that has hit New Hampshire over the weekend, there is no better time for a SharePoint Road Trip to start than today! It was so bad up here that our city postponed Halloween Trick-or-treating until next Sunday. Here are a couple of pictures of the devastation, just from our driveway: Here is a quick list of where you can find me over the next 2 months. I fly out to Las Vegas this evening to…
Coming from a security focused AD background I prefer to have the Managed Service Accounts OU locked down with a GPO restricting interactive logon to a server. This helps avoid service accounts becoming compromised and being taken advantage of in attacks. Having an ISE is especially helpful when you are doing SharePoint work on the farm and while I am a big fan of PowerShell, running straight at the command line is often a pain. Rather than installing one of…
The Office Sustained Engineering Team has announced that Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Office 2007 & SharePoint 2007 will be coming some time during 2011 Q4. This appears to be the last major update to the 2007 client & server stack as the team states: “We are offering this release in preparation for the April 2012 end of mainstream support for the 2007 client and server products. The October 2011 release provides a 6-month window to test and deploy the…
I was watching the news last night and a story came on about a man in Manchester, NH (about 30 minutes from my house) who heard a noise that was coming from his backyard, and when he turned on this lights he found a Moose in his backyard. The moose was spooked by the sudden flood of light and charged through his fence and directly into the man’s swimming pool. The man from didn’t have many options going in to…
This was referred to this morning in the keynote at SharePoint Conference 2011 and appears to be a really cool solution. Source: Visio.Microsoft.com “SharePoint Network Topology Diagram Add-in leverages Visio Services to deliver a near real time intuitive rendering of the status of SharePoint farm’s infrastructure and associated services. Visio Graphics services – A key part of SharePoint 2010, enables customers to share their dynamic data driven Visio diagrams and dashboards within SharePoint. This helps extend the reach of valuable…
I ran into an issue today where I needed to quickly pull the MaximumFileSize setting for every web application across my farms. I found lots of blogs that told me how to change the setting, but none that told me how to pull the information from the farm before I change it. The UI method for this is simple, but cumbersome if you have multiple web apps and multiple farms. Simply go to Central Administration|Application Management|Manage Web Application and select…
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…
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…
It has almost gone overlooked, but Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 are not the only products to get a Service Pack 1 release today. I know that the Office Web Apps are a bolt on to SharePoint 2010 and so they don’t get a whole lot of attention, but from an end user feature enhancement perspective, I am almost more excited about the Office Web Apps SP1 than anything else released today (Office 365 not withstanding). Sourced directly from Microsoft’s…
Today Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010 which is a rollup of all previous Cumulative Updates through April 2011, which means that deploying directly on top of RTM bits supported, as well as number of stability, performance, and security enhancements based upon customer feedback. There is a detailed white paper that about the Service Pack that can be found at this location. CAVEAT: Microsoft strongly recommends installing the June 2011 Cumulative Update immediately after the installation of…