Ok this one is kinda lame... but alas, the fix is simple.  My ultimate goal was to perform a backup of a SharePoint WSS database on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server, with the intent of performing a database restore, to a new SharePoint 2010 Foundati ...[Read More]

For some reason lately, we' ve been seeing a number of cases where User Profiles in Windows Server 2008 (seems to be mostly R2 but may be from SP1 of Windows Server 2008 as well) experiences cases where users cannot create local profiles. I've seen ...[Read More]

This was a post by the office Robert. :)   Dell offers remote console connectivity using the SOL function of the BMC. This is a good tool but there is another tool that allows you to connect to the BMC and gather a lot of information as well as ...[Read More]

We spent a little time this week putting together a list of what we believe are the benefits customers get, working with itgroove. You'll notice we didn't put things like "we're wicked smart" or "we're great haxors". We tried t ...[Read More]

By Robert Dick today…   I had real fun with a DELL R300 server after a motherboard replacement.  Learned bunches but first a little background.     What originally went wrong?     The Dell R300 "lost" the MAC addresses on the tw ...[Read More]

Notes: Don't ask why the SharePoint server is a DC. It is not recommended that a SharePoint Server is a DC, but in some situations we don't have a choice… Don't ask why we had to demote and then re-promote the SharePoint server as a DC. You ...[Read More]

I had a weird error today to address on a client SharePoint (WSS) Server. CAPI2 errors, indicating it couldn't get trusted root cert's from Microsoft for an application. In the end, it was a corrupt WSS search Index (go figure?) but digging into W ...[Read More]

No, clicking on the checkbox won't cut it… :-) But I see that often...   I see lots of posts and links but none that seem to spell it out clearly. It's simple though and involves: A Registry Change A Reboot Reference: Reference KB: http ...[Read More]

Well, what d'ya know? I'm not sure how far back this feature goes (at least Vista, maybe XP, gosh, maybe even Windows 2000?), but it became a very practical solution for me today.   My Requirement I'm the "a picture is worth a 1000 words ...[Read More]

This quick blog entry was created because I was getting nowhere, trying to find a quick resolution to two obscure errors I was getting, when trying (in my case) to download and extract SQL Server 2008 SP1 (though this should apply to just about an ...[Read More]