Aaron Saikovski's Technical Blog
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Hi there, This will be my last post on this blog as I have left Microsoft. you can reach me at my...
Date: 10/07/2013
**Firstly at the time of writing this article this isn't an officially supported configuration so...
Date: 06/04/2012
Troubleshooting FAST Search 2010: EventID: 2567 - Failed to connect to FASTServer.MyDomain.com:13391 - Failed to initialize session with document engine: Unable to resolve Contentdistributor
When performing a content crawl with a FAST Content SSA it pays to check the event logs on the...
Date: 04/27/2012
Happy 2012 everyone! Here is an updated Powershell script for setting the powerplan on a server in a...
Date: 01/02/2012
Recently I was playing around with the IIS 7 PowerShell snap-in and I found a simple way of...
Date: 11/30/2011
The latest verion of the PAL tool can be downloaded from here:https://pal.codeplex.com/ This version...
Date: 11/15/2011
Many folks from the recent Melbourne SharePoint Saturday event were asking me about version table...
Date: 10/30/2011
Thanks to all those who attended my session on patching at SharePoint Saturday. Here are the...
Date: 10/22/2011
Many folks from the recent Melbourne SharePoint Saturday event were asking me about version...
Date: 10/22/2011
I was recently working with one of our large enterprise customers and they were experiencing...
Date: 10/21/2011
Here is an article that has just been published around updating/patching your farms with...
Date: 10/06/2011
Here are some useful PowerShell scripts that I use to evaluate customer’s SQL environments....
Date: 09/15/2011
I am a very big fan of the PAL tool to assist in sifting through event logs when diagnosing...
Date: 09/15/2011
Hi All, My Slides from the presentation i gave on Patching SharePoint 2010 can be found on my...
Date: 08/09/2011
A colleague of mine and I were mucking about with PowerShell recently and came up with the...
Date: 08/09/2011
I was recently at a customer site and we found by changing the power plan on a Windows Server...
Date: 04/20/2011
The following PowerShell script will get the patch level of your farm: 1: #gets the build...
Date: 12/20/2010
I have made updates to my very useful PowerShell solution deployer and though it would be useful to...
Date: 09/05/2010
The latest cumulative updates are now available for download. The hotfixes can be requested from...
Date: 09/01/2010
While testing some functionality for a client recently I found something interesting when publishing...
Date: 08/25/2010
I wanted the ability to be right click within windows explorer to enable me to run powershell from...
Date: 06/17/2010
This is a great article for those who want to get a SharePoint 2010 farm up and running quickly and...
Date: 06/08/2010
The countdown has begun to the biggest SharePoint conference in Australia and the southern...
Date: 06/08/2010
The following have just been published as part of the SharePoint 2010 RTM release. Happy reading!...
Date: 04/19/2010
Here is a very basic script that will configure a barebones SharePoint 2010 farm. This isn’t...
Date: 04/19/2010
The official announcement is here:...
Date: 04/17/2010
Check out the conference site to see the awesome line up of international and local speakers. Arpan...
Date: 04/12/2010
Date: 03/04/2010
Its been a while since i have blogged as I have been doing heaps of client delivery work interstate....
Date: 03/03/2010
Only one week to go until Kathy Hughes and I will be demoing SharePoint 2010 locally. There will be...
Date: 10/17/2009
This article will walk you through building a self contained SharePoint 2007 installation with all...
Date: 09/24/2009
Kathy Hughes (SharePoint MVP and author) and I will be co-presenting the first Australian public...
Date: 09/24/2009
**Firstly - This isn’t a VMware bashing post just a product workaround tip ** Recently I have been...
Date: 09/13/2009
With the RTM release of Windows Server 2008 R2 I have been receiving many questions about what level...
Date: 07/23/2009
If you install Forefront client security on any server in your MOSS2007 farm you might find that...
Date: 07/09/2009
I found something very interesting the other day when playing around with the AJAX tab control in a...
Date: 06/30/2009
Here is a script that I used recently on a project that might be of use to you all. You need to pass...
Date: 06/23/2009
I decided to bite the bullet and finally complete the last two of the SharePoint 2007 exams, 70-541...
Date: 04/29/2009
The combination of the economic downturn, decreasing donation income and ever increasing costs has...
Date: 04/07/2009
I was doing some SharePoint Workflow development the other day in Visual Studio 2008 and I had the...
Date: 03/10/2009
Recently at a client site I experienced a strange error when trying to crawl Vignette based sites...
Date: 03/09/2009
The Windows 7 beta is here and everyone’s talking about it. In this session we’ll discuss what...
Date: 02/25/2009
I recently found some differences when developing Workflows in Visual Studio and SharePoint Designer...
Date: 02/15/2009
The southern states of Australian were devastated by the worst bushfires in our history over the...
Date: 02/08/2009
Check out the details here:...
Date: 02/08/2009
Learn to design, implement, and deploy a complete solution for integrating an external document...
Date: 02/05/2009
Each year I like to setout my top 5 personal and professional goals for myself and to share them...
Date: 01/14/2009
The download links are as follows: December Cumulative Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0...
Date: 12/18/2008
Firstly big shout out to Grant Holliday of OzTFS.com fame and a recently joined and relocated member...
Date: 12/02/2008
Download links are as follows: WSS 3.0 Global...
Date: 11/11/2008