The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Category: System Administration

  • Patch Tuesday – January 2014

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    A few quick bits of information for today that might be of interest to those of you working with the Microsoft Stack. Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for January 2014 Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word and Office Web Apps Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2916605) If you dig into the KB2916605, it’s labelled as important, not critical…

  • December 2010 Cumulative Updates for SharePoint

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    This one goes out to my friend and SharePoint colleague, Mark Rackley, also known to many of you as @MRackley. Gotta help my Dev friends that wonder at times why the underlying infrastructure doesn’t work properly – hopefully these bits will help. Seem like you just got the good bits for the October 2010 Cumulative…

  • 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…

  • TaxonomyPicker.ascx bug (SP2010 RTM)

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    Please note the update! So apparently others have stumbled upon this but when doing my rebuild of RTM over the weekend I noticed a nifty little error popping up in the event log that raised a little concern with regard to the TaxonomyPicker user control. Looking at the error, you’ll notice that it states the…

  • SPDiag v1 – First Impressions

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    So as a follow up to mentioning of the tool, my first impressions to the SPDiag tool are essentially – holy guacamole, this is awesome!  It’s nothing super flashy, though you can download the .net 3.5 Microsoft Charts plugin to provide for additionally graphical views of information.  It sports the plain jane simple minimalistic UI…

  • Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3 Available

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    For those of you that read the recent article pertaining to the SharePoint Diagnostics v1 tool for SharePoint 2007 and were slightly confused and left wondering where it was buried in the v2 release of the toolkit, Microsoft has answered the question. Downloads available at: Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0 x86 Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit…

  • Have you clustered your users yet?

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    Yes, you read the title correctly.  I’m not referring to clustering SQL servers, nor am I referring to your clustered ISA servers, or Microsoft Clustering Services.  Rather I’m talking about clustering your users to see what their permissions are and if they’re similar to the permissions of anyone else in your farm. What are you…

  • Contextual Considerations of Technical Planning

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    On 10 January 2009, I attended the SharePoint Saturday – Virginia Beach event with a friend of mine, looking to see SharePoint from a different angle and take in new perspectives and perhaps learn a thing or two while being refreshed by others in the "community".  It was great to meet Paul Galvin, Dan Lewis,…

  • Expiring Service Accounts…

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    Recently I read an article regarding service accounts and how they should never be set to expire.  Bold statement that in some respects I agree with.  In the context of the author, I completely understand their frustration with the identity management system not properly alerting the end user that their account was about to be…