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Poor man’s SharePoint warm-up script

Posted over 3 years ago

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It’s simple, it’s a little bit manual, but it works well. warmup.cmd stsadm pages.html pages.html <html> <body> <iframe src=” http://spca:18000/ ”></iframe> <iframe src=” http://myssp.domain/ssp/admin/ ”></iframe> <iframe...
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SharePoint uninstall - "the product installation has been corrupted, run setup from original source"

Posted over 3 years ago

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"the product installation has been corrupted, run setup from original source" See this message before? I saw this when trying to uninstall SharePoint from the Add/Remove Programs menu. This happened after someone uninstalled IIS...
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Don’t recycle the Application Pool for Central Admin site for faster load times

Posted over 3 years ago

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The default app pool setting for the SharePoint Central Admin site is to recycle at a set time each day. Given that most of us rarely use Central Admin more than once or twice each day (because we script all the changes to the SharePoint farm configuration...
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How to uninstall Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 if you accidently deleted IIS first

Posted over 3 years ago

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So you’ve gone to uninstall SharePoint and you find that someone has removed IIS first. You go to Add/Remove programs and select uninstall for SharePoint but it fails with an error message “Error 1920.Service 'W3SVC' (W3SVC) failed to start. Verify that...
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Scripted provisioning of multiple Central Admin web applications

Posted over 3 years ago

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After reading some other posts about setting up the SharePoint Central Admin Web Application on multiple servers I thought it would be useful to post just a little more information on the topic. The From the Field blog covered this topic really well....
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The secrets of SQL Syntax Queries for Relevant Results in MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search

Posted over 5 years ago

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I've been handing out this blog post URL (below) so much lately that I thought I'd share it here. The secrets of SQL Syntax Queries for Relevant Results in MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search http://blog.mondosoft.com/ontolica/archive/2007/07/31/The-secrets...
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SharePoint Search site

Posted over 5 years ago

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http://SharePointSearch.com
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Visual Studio 2008 ("Orcas") and .NET 3.5

Posted over 5 years ago

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Daniel Moth has a bunch of great posts on Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Here are two great entry points: http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2007/06/visual-studio-2008-stack.html http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2007/06/net-framework-35.html
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Orcas Beta 2 Download URLs

Posted over 5 years ago

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http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/07/26/orcas-beta-2-download-urls.aspx Great post with all the download URLs for Orcas Beta 2. Very handy.
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Mastering PowerShell in your lunch break -- Awesome!!

Posted over 5 years ago

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http://powershelllive.com/blogs/lunch/default.aspx Highly, highly recommended.
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Great MOSS 2007 Search Blog

Posted over 5 years ago

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http://blogs.msdn.com/miketag/ Enough said.
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Krzysztof Cwalina on Framework Design

Posted over 5 years ago

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Krzysztof has been recorded for MS Research and gives an excellent presentation on framework design. The details are on his blog . Lots of great notes. His book on the same subject was well worth the read.
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Invitation to the inaugural Canberra VSTS user group - Jan 24th

Posted over 5 years ago

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I’d like to make you aware of the new Canberra Visual Studio Team System user group! The purpose of the VSTS User Group is to form a community of practice for Canberra-based IT professionals interested in the use of Visual Studio Team System (VSTS...
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New Web Service Software Factory released on msdn

Posted over 5 years ago

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The second version of the Service Factory (that helps build both ASP.NET and WCF services) has been released on msdn. The download is now available . For those that don't know, the Web Service Software Factory (also known as the Service Factory) is...
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Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

Posted over 6 years ago

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Love the dual core perf :) Snippet from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/support/vs2005sp1/default.aspx " Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Visual Studio 2005 represents one of the most significant developer tools releases since the...
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Canberra Visual Studio Team System user group is ready for launch!

Posted over 6 years ago

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Well, Nils announced it first ... Canberra now has it's very own Visual Studio Team System user group. First meeting details are not set in stone right now, but here's what we have: What: Canberra Visual Studio Team System user group When: Wednesday...
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Claiming my Technorati blog

Posted over 6 years ago

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Technorati Profile I always do as I'm told (just don't verify that please....). So here I am claiming my blog on Technorati Taken straight from the Technorati website " About Technorati Currently tracking 60 million blogs Technorati...
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Microsoft Xml Notepad

Posted over 6 years ago

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I've been using this for a few weeks. So instead of me just emailing the link around to everyone saying "Hey, try this!" .... I thought I'd just do it on my blog. So: Hey, try this! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=72d6aa49...
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Software Engineering with VSTS - great book

Posted over 6 years ago

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Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (Microsoft .NET Development Series) http://www.amazon.com/Software-Engineering-Microsoft-Visual-Development/dp/0321278720/ If you're into agile development, feature driven development...
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Visual Studio 2005 Team System Basics Training

Posted over 6 years ago

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Brief Description (200-level) A complete, self-paced training course with a VPC image containing Team System software. Overview Provides training on: Overview Licensing Architecture Deployment and Maintenance Team Foundation Server...
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Visual Studio "Orcas" October CTP

Posted over 6 years ago

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I've been a bit slow with putting this link up ... but I keep emailing it around, so here it is. Visual Studio "Orcas" October CTP http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C09B5A2D-EB6A-44B6-8BBD-3764A2FDA9CE&displaylang=en ...
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Writing Secure Code (Managed Code)

Posted over 6 years ago

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Just a quick one... I've been asked for a good place to start when you're interested in writing secure code. Here's the first link I send out. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/security/aa570401.aspx There are SO many good security resources, but I...
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How complex is your code? Find out with nDepend!

Posted over 6 years ago

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I've been asked to look at the code of a project and give an assessment on the complexity of it. So, I start with my trusty friend nDepend . I can't tell you how many times I've used this tool ... but it's a lot. :) I really like it as a general guide...
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I know it's against industry best practice but...

Posted over 6 years ago

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You know you're in for an interesting conversation when the first sentence you hear starts with "I know it's against industry best practice but....". Know, there's nothing wrong with going against the "industry best practice" if you've got a good reason...
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New HP Compaq nc8430

Posted over 6 years ago

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Finally.... my new laptop should arrive tomorrow! :) Hopefully it will be rebuilt and ready for a flogging by tomorrow afternoon...