Cool – Achieved new rank on Experts Exchange Today

On June 30, 2009, in itgroove, MOSS 2007, SharePoint, WSS 3.0, by swallbridge

Guru sounds nice. Not sure I believe it.  But I’ll take it.  Nice to be recognized anyways.  Nobody is an ‘Expert’ in SharePoint (Guru, or otherwise) but if someone wants to pin that to me, I’ll wear it.  Got a free T-Shirt, which one should never turn down…    

 

SharePoint Site Collections Read Only during STSADM Scheduled Backups

On June 29, 2009, in MOSS 2007, SharePoint, WSS 3.0, by swallbridge

This was an interesting discovery, as I try not to work after 10pm (when my automated, scripted Site Collections are due to run).   When I tried to save a document to a document library, I was greeted with the following two issues:   When saving to a document library, I got… You do not [...]

 

Business Requirements – The importance, summed up in one Whiteboard Drawing…

On June 29, 2009, in Brain Litter, Rants, SharePoint, by swallbridge

Stumbled across this today via Google Images and I couldn’t resist posting it on here. One frustration I have (like many others) is the insistence with many customers (particularly in SMB) who buy technology before mapping out what they are trying to accomplish. Often, we, as an IT service company are left trying to piece [...]

 
 

Windows – Applying Updates – 3 of 3, 0% complete … going on forever…

On June 25, 2009, in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, by swallbridge

I ran into this the other day. A server (a virtual machine or VM to be exact) was trying to apply some new Security Patches on boot but it kept saying Applying updates, 3 of 3, 0% complete“.  This went on for an hour (and who knows how much longer it would have gone, had [...]

If you need a sexy icon on your desktop…

On June 25, 2009, in Windows, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, by swallbridge

Ok, it’s a web world now, but this old tip still crops up enough to warrant sharing.   If you want to change an icon on your desktop to something sexier, you have a number of choices. You can of course download a new one (thanks Steve, for pointing out

 

Great SharePoint Designer Conditional Formatting Reference

On June 20, 2009, in MOSS 2007, SharePoint, WSS 3.0, by swallbridge

This is a great resource and I know I’ll have trouble finding it later, so I’m bookmarking it here on my blog:

 
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Clearing (IIS Logfiles) Disk Space on Windows Servers

On June 20, 2009, in IIS, MOSS 2007, SharePoint, Windows, Windows Server 2008, WSS 3.0, by swallbridge

Although there are a number of techniques and places to look to clear disk space on a Windows server, including pruning SQL transaction logs, removing HIBERFIL.SYS, moving the pagefile to another drive, one of the most effective I’ve found has been removing HTTP logs that get accumulated daily (particularly if you have turned logging on, [...]

 

Exchange 2007 Difficulties delivering email to some domains – Error 451 4.4.0 DNS query failed

On June 19, 2009, in SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, by swallbridge

Here is an interesting one but quite repeatable… I’ve run into this situation now in two totally different Exchange 2007 environments (the source). While we are able to successfully deliver messages to most customer domains, in these two instances, one was a domain in BC and the other was in Argentina. The Problem For whatever [...]

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