Sep25

Windows Virtual PC – Shutdown XP Mode

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Windows XP mode by default will not shutdown, but only Hibernate when you close it.  All fine and dandy, but what if you have a situation where you need it to shut down.  Close, Log Off… where is shutdown? With the machine still on, you need to cli...
 
Sep23

ShareComic – Chuck Norris and SharePoint

Categories: SharePoint Comic
Chuck Norris never starts an Approval workflow in SharePoint.  Chuck doesn’t need approval. Chuck Norris’s favorite SharePoint site theme is Cardinal.  Chuck enjoys the color Red. Chuck Norris can modify SharePoint’s application.master in a ...
 
Sep19

Charlotte SharePoint User Group presentation.

Categories: News
During this past week Charlotte had another fantastic SharePoint User Group meeting.  Brian Morrow/Bryan Cole of Premier gave a presentation on their SharePoint implementation, I gave a presentation on Social Computing & CKS with an emphasis...
 
Sep18

Quiesce The SharePoint Server

Categories: Admin
Qui-what?  According to Wikipedia, Quiesce is used to describe pausing or altering the state of running processes on a computer particularly those that might modify information stored on disk during a backup in order to guarantee a consistent and us...
 
Sep17

Removing SharePoint from a Domain Controller

Categories: Errors
Never, never, never, ever, never ever… install SharePoint on a Domain Controller in a production environment.  On a development environment (like a virtual single server), sure I can live with that (and do it myself).  But installing SharePoint on a...
 
Sep9

SharePoint Performance Monitoring - Idera Pointcheck

Categories: General
There are many products out there for heavy monitoring of a SharePoint / Server environment.  Alerts, notifications, different levels of health checks, etc..  I recently examined Idera Pointcheck, their free SharePoint performance monitoring tool.  ...
 
Sep2

Remote Server Administration Tools on Windows 7

Categories: Windows 7
With the popular release of Windows 7, I know of a lot of folks that have it up and running on their main machines already (I have used it on my primary laptop since the beta).  If your an IT Professional, you most likely will want to add this suite...
 
Sep1