The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Category: Infrastructure

  • Installing SharePoint 2010 on an Island

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    Have you found yourself installing SharePoint on an island of sorts – completely disconnected from the Internet, without external DNS connectivity or the ability to download files that are required for SharePoint? Even though you know that the Internet is within reach you’re unable to access it, probably because of an OSI layer 1 network…

  • SharePoint Server 2007 – December 2009 CU

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    Microsoft has released the SharePoint 2007 December 2009 Cumulative Update as of 29 January 2010. The cumulative update like all other updates includes all hotfixes since the most recent Service Pack, in this case SP2. Information pertaining to this cumulative update is available at from the Update Resource Center at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx The WSS v3 December…

  • AAM – The Bain of search problems…

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    Recently, I rain into an issue where WSS v3 search results weren’t working properly. It ended up being a pretty simple fix in that the web application authentication setup (basic versus integrated windows authentication) with the alternate access mappings weren’t configured properly.  After a little bit of modification to the settings, wallah, things worked magnificently.…

  • SharePoint Saturday – DC

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    This past weekend, SharePoint Saturday visited the local Northern Virginia region with SharePoint Saturday DC, hosted at the Microsoft Technology Center in Reston, VA. It was a great time with 28 sessions led by SharePoint professionals and MVPs from all around the country. Props to Dux Sy for his coordination of the volunteers and sponsors!…

  • SharePoint on Windows Server 2008 – Building the framework

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    This weekend I undertook the fun of building out a medium sized farm on my personal development hardware with my trusty MSDN license that I bought for my own personal use to begin testing a few pieces of code I’ve been working on as well as to have a play ground to work through occasional…

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta available on MSDN

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    Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta is now available over on MSDN for download if you have an MSDN subscription.  Much like Windows 7 Beta, expect that if you don’t hop to it now that it will be a slow download with everyone else hammering the servers for it. Currently only the x64 edition seems to…

  • EC2 Tips for Windows users…

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    So I won’t claim to be an MCSE or someone that develops custom driver code when for some reason a newly installed components unsigned driver apparently doesn’t work and without it I won’t be able to experience true gigabit Ethernet throughput… but I do know a thing or two about scripting and API hacking. Tip…

  • More impressions on EC2

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    So what more could I ask for than to continue to experiment with the Windows virtual machines available from Amazon Web Services elastic computer cloud? I could ask for more flexibility and ease of use… though I suppose it’s more just getting used to the way that Elasticfox works and how to connect machines together…

  • Sun xVM VirtualBox – Small Footprint, Speedy

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    So I came across an article earlier today making mention of Sun’s xVM standards compliant Virtual Sandbox software and I figured, "It’s free and it looks halfway decent, plus it’s standards compliant." So a quick visit over to Virtual Boxes web site (http://www.virtualbox.org) and a little download magic and I was off and running setting…

  • TechEd 2008 – Day 1

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    Day 1 of TechEd 2008 was a long first day to open up the conference.  Starting off with breakfast at 7:30, heading to the keynote at 8:30 and then onward to breakout sessions, hands on labs and interactive sessions through 6:30 in the evening was quite a lot to digest – but the day didn’t…