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• A Simple Backup Solution

  As I've mentioned before, I don't spend much money or time maintaining the "Jameson Datacenter" (a.k.a. my home lab). However, that doesn't mean that I treat my infrastructure lightly. In previous posts, I've covered many of the Group Policy objects that Read More... Posted Monday, November 09, 2009 6:44 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Windows Server, Infrastructure

• Using Password Minder to Manage Your Passwords

  I started using Password Minder almost immediately after reading about it in the July 2004 edition of MSDN Magazine. I don't know about you, but trying to remember all of my various passwords for dozens of Web sites, numerous network accounts, VMs, etc. Read More... Posted Saturday, November 07, 2009 7:18 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 1 Comments Filed under: My System

• Using Robocopy to Move Files and Folders

  I use Robocopy a lot, and it's been in my Toolbox for so long that I hardly remember using anything else. I was glad to see that it is now included out-of-the-box (starting with Vista), because I typically use it instead of Windows Explorer to move or Read More... Posted Saturday, November 07, 2009 6:46 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System

• Deleting Empty Folders

  For the sake of this post, let's assume that you have a directory that contains some empty folders you want to get rid of. How the empty folders got there isn't important; all that matters is that you have some and you want to get rid of them. A few years Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 03, 2009 6:36 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System

• Recommendations for Code Analysis

  In my previous post , I briefly mentioned the Code Analysis feature of Visual Studio in the context of using check-in policies with Team Foundation Server (TFS). However, there's a lot more to talk about with regards to using Code Analysis. If you are Read More... Posted Saturday, October 31, 2009 7:44 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Core Development, Visual Studio

• Recommended Check-In Policies for Team Foundation Server

  I love using Team Foundation Server (TFS). There's just an amazing amount of "goodness" for software development that comes out-of-the-box; and there's even more available from Microsoft and other sources in the form of add-ons (many of which are free). Read More... Posted Saturday, October 31, 2009 6:14 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Core Development, TFS

• The Original "Jameson Datacenter"

  This morning I was doing some cleanup of my documents folder and I stumbled across a rather old Visio document that showed the beginnings of what I now refer to as the "Jameson Datacenter" (a.k.a. my home lab). For some geeky reason, seeing this again Read More... Posted Saturday, October 24, 2009 7:18 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Personal, Infrastructure

• Configure IntelliMirror Using Group Policy

  Yet another Group Policy object that I use in the "Jameson Datacenter" (a.k.a. my home lab) is one to automatically configure roaming profiles and redirect the Desktop and Documents folders to a server(a.k.a. "IntelliMirror"). Even though I don't have Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:57 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Simplify, Windows Server, Infrastructure

• Eliminate MBSA Warnings Using Default Security Settings Policy

  Another Group Policy object that I use in the "Jameson Datacenter" (a.k.a. my home lab) is one that I created a couple of years ago in order to eliminate various warnings from the Microsoft Baseline Security Advisor (MBSA). To automatically change the Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 5:57 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Simplify, Windows Server, Infrastructure

• Add Rooler to Your Web Development Toolbox

  This past May, one of my colleagues notified me of a new tool called "Rooler" that allows you to easily measure anything displayed on your screen. I definitely consider this tool a "must have" for anyone out there doing Web development. While tools like Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:19 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Web Development

• Introducing the SharePointSmtpHelper Class

  Continuing in the spirit of my previous posts for the SharePointPublishingHelper class and SharePointWebPartHelper class, I'd like to introduce another helper class that you may find useful when building solutions for Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) Read More... Posted Sunday, October 18, 2009 8:29 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, MOSS 2007, WSS v3

• Introducing the SharePointWebPartHelper Class

  In a previous post, I introduced the DR.DADA approach to SharePoint development and how I typically use the concept of a FeatureConfigurator to automatically configure one or more aspects of a SharePoint site when activating my feature. For example, on Read More... Posted Saturday, October 17, 2009 6:54 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, MOSS 2007, WSS v3

• Event ID 10016, KB 920783, and the WSS_WPG Group

  If you've ever deployed Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v3 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 in a least privilege configuration, you have undoubtedly encountered errors similar to the following in your Windows event log: The application-specific Read More... Posted Saturday, October 17, 2009 5:33 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Simplify, MOSS 2007, WSS v3

• Managing Group Membership via Group Policy - Part 2

  In Part 1 of this post , I explained the Group Policy object (named Development - Restricted Groups Policy ) that I use for enforcing group membership on a specific set of servers. As a follow-up to that post, I also want to cover an alternate method Read More... Posted Thursday, October 15, 2009 7:04 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Simplify, Windows Server, Infrastructure

• Enforcing Windows Update via Group Policy

  Another Group Policy object that I use in the "Jameson Datacenter" (a.k.a. my home lab) is one to automatically configure Windows Update on all computers in the domain. This ensures that each server or workstation downloads updates from COLOSSUS (one Read More... Posted Thursday, October 15, 2009 6:15 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: My System, Simplify, WSUS, Windows Server, Infrastructure