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Technical Weblog of Eric Charran

A Journal of My Technical Achievements and Challenges

March 2008 - Posts

Backing Up Windows Hyper-V Virtual Machines
So most folks know that Hyper-V contains the capacity to allow backups of Virtual Machines while they are running.  System Center Data Protection Manager will eventually have the capability to conduct this process.  However, a straight file Read More...
The Windows Time Service and Hyper-V
Recently a domain I had a domain running inside Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008.  The challenge was that the domain's clocks were running behind the time being reported at time.windows.com.  When I ran the w32tm command ( w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:time.windows.com Read More...
Filtering the Content By Query Web Part on a Yes/No Field
Here is a great post on something that I know I'll forget and that isn't that intuitive.  When filtering on a Yes/No column, I kept trying to input the value of "True" or "Yes" for the filter value.  The technique is as described Read More...
SharePoint 2007 Subsites with Different Templates Than Their Parent
Sometimes things are really simple but take some time to figure out.  I was just going to write this up, but looks like someone beat me to it.  Here is how you create a subsite with a different site template from its parent.  http://techblog.udayakumar.net/2007/12/how-to-create-subsites-with-different.htm Read More...
Final Release of VSeWSS 1.1
Check out the documentation here for the final release of the WSS tools for Visual Studio.  A version for Visual Studio 2008 is coming in the summer sometime. http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/02/11/announcing-the-final-release-of-vsewss-1-1-and-the-upcoming-version-1-2.asp Read More...
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