Microsoft
One of the biggest user peeves with SharePoint is the authentication prompts. I get questions about this all the time, so I thought I would explain some simple configuration changes either you or your system administrator can implement to make your SharePoint experience just a bit better.There are 2
Networking
I had recently worked on a problem with a customer in which they had been experiencing issues with the phone quality of their Voice-over-IP (VOIP) phone system at one of their branch offices (VPN connection). During my review, I was told the Internet connection was supposed to be 20x2 (20
Infrastructure
It never hurts to have a quick reference for Linux administration commands, so I wanted to put out some helpful items for user, file, directory, and group management. Linux Commands for managing users: * adduser - Command used to add user accounts. * chage - Used to change the time the user&
Microsoft
If you're like me, this is definitely in your Top 10 WSS/MOSS 2007 requests. Never fails, the database server is provisioned with less than adequate storage, or the company utilization and adoption of SharePoint has been more than successful. None the less, the SharePoint and related databases
General
As Windows Server 2008 takes it's place in more data centers, serving as a domain controller, design changes are starting to impact end users. One of these notable changes effects a workflow most users have picked up: browsing the network to find file servers and shares. We have
Exchange
To Distro or not to distro... Our customer needed distribution groups from their various SharePoint sites for creating alerts on shared lists and libraries. Until now, the site administrator was constantly having to add and manage these alerts all on an individual basis, and since each project the customer works
General
After installing WSS3 SP2 on a clean install of Server 2008 x86 SP2 STD, and using SQL 2008 SP1 as the backend, I could not get any search results. The setup is about as simple of a farm installation you can get, it is for a small number of users, and demonstration purposes, so everything is install
General
Office Server 2007 SP2 resets to trial mode
General
The setup: Server 2003 R2 SP2, DC & DNS Roles, WSUS SP1 Fresh install, default website (80). The issue: No status reported by clients (Servers and workstations), Event ID 13042 in the Application logs on the WSUS server Self-update is not working.
Cisco
One of my favorite things about my job is working with Cisco’s Unified Communications Manager (CUCM). It’s so robust and complex that there always seems to be something new to learn. Last week I ran into a couple of interesting issues that I thought I’d share with
Exchange
With Exchange 2007 SP1, and Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services, you may want to enable users to send emails to your security groups. The dilema is that security groups will not show up in the Global Address List (GAL). In order to mail-enable an AD DS security group, you