The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Category: Administration

  • The Ultimate Timer Job Fix

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    If you find yourself running into problems with your SharePoint server when it comes to Timer Jobs, perhaps you should take the advice of Randall Monroe… Note that I’m not actually recommending that you do this, but there’s something to be said about clearing your paging file from time to time with a reboot.

  • Automation of Password Updates…

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    Recently I stumbled upon a SharePoint 2010 environment setup a long time ago where the managed accounts and accounts in general were setup a little funny… in particular the issue was that the profile service stopped syncing. I asked the administrator what the issue was and they stated that they’d setup the system to use…

  • SharePoint Users Group of New York

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    This past week, Scott Hoag and I had the privilege of presenting a session to the New York SharePoint User’s Group, hosted by Microsoft at their offices there in New York City on the Avenue of the Americas. There were a few familiar faces in the crowd such as Paul Galvin, Mary Leigh Mackie, Randi…

  • Recycle an Application Pool – #ITProTip

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    So you’ve deployed an updated solution to your SharePoint 2007 or 2010 farm and you need to recycle the application pool associated with the web application that the solution is deployed to but you don’t want to take down the entire SharePoint farm? No problem, just recycle the single application pool that’s associated with that…

  • No, don’t pull that cord out of the wall…

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    Are you ever working on a server and you wander away for a few minutes only to come back and find that you’ve been disconnected and your session terminated? Never something fun to work through, especially if you’re installing and configuring a software product. In most enterprise settings this is something that you’d find in…

  • SharePoint 2010 – Drive Space Conundrum

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    One of the new capabilities of SharePoint 2010 that comes in handy is the Health Monitoring alerts that pop up on the front page of Central Admin. One thing you might run into is when you start to run out of disk space.  You’ll probably see something similar to this: Always something that you want…

  • 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…

  • 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…