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Technical Weblog of Eric Charran

A Journal of My Technical Achievements and Challenges

February 2007 - Posts

Great TFS Article on Project Sizing
Good article outlining how to size TFS Servers for Projects http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa974183(vs.80).aspx Read More...
Must Run Sidebar Gadget for a Media Center
Check out this fantastic gadget! http://www.asciiexpress.com/webguide/VistaSidebarGadget/tabid/77/Default.aspx It connects to media center without having to wait for eshell to launch! Read More...
Clustered Index Rebuilds Affecting Non-Clustered Indexes
Another nifty note about indexing. One of the more popular interview questions for technical folks is the various effects a change to a clustered index can have on nonclustered indexes. This post clears some of that up: Does rebuilding a clustered index Read More...
Create a Time Dimension in SQL Server
Here is a great link on how to create a time dimension for a relational data warehouse in SQL Server. It's great that I won't have to worry about this again! http://sqljunkies.com/WebLog/enigma/archive/2004/02/04/940.aspx Read More...
SQL Server Feature Pack and SP2
The following URL goes to the SQL Server Feature Pack which consists of a listing of SQL Server 2005 redistributable components and add-ons for SQL Server. If you have a server that only needs ADOMD.NET for example, or Notification Servers Client Components, Read More...
Best Practices Analyzer for MOSS and SPS V3
Just because I'll need this later, here is the link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=cb944b27-9d6b-4a1f-b3e1-778efda07df8&displaylang=en Read More...
New Site for MOSS Goodness
Here is a consolidated developer's accumulation of all things MSDN and MOSS. http://msdn.microsoft.com/moss Read More...
What do Prescan Errors Mean?
Here is a great post on what prescan.exe errors really mean when encountered during their run prior to MOSS upgrade on an SPS 2003 site. http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2006/12/22/prescan-errors-what-they-mean.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2006/05/09/427831.asp Read More...
MOSS Performance Tests
The following URL goes to some recently released Performance Tests for MOSS that can be used in conjunction with VSTS. http://www.codeplex.com/sptdatapop MOSS Performance Tests.zip . Read More...
Outlook 2007 Error: The form cannot be displayed
If you ever receive this error message in Outlook 2007: "The form cannot be displayed. The form required to view this message cannot be displayed. Contact your Administrator." This error occurred for me when I was trying to create a Calendar item. Go Read More...
Vista Sidebar Gadget Published
My first Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget has been published to gallery.live.com. This gadget wraps the Windows Media Player and allows for the playing of any video stream, file and URL that is compatible with Windows Media Player (did you know that the player Read More...
Configuring Team Foundation Server to use a Remote WSS/SPS Installation
Here is an article on how to use an existing or remote instance of SharePoint with Team Foundation Server http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/aa718901.aspx Read More...
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