We’ve been working with our backup vendor to address some shortcomings of their product as it relates to Windows 2008 system recover. This was precipitated by a failure of a portion of our virtual infrastructure, which lead to corruption of several hosts’ virtual disk files.
We managed to rebuild one failed host from bare (virtual) metal, [...]
Geoff @ UVM
Geoffrey Duke ∈ System Administrator ∈ Enterprise Technology Services
SharePoint
backups – Bad and Good
Worklog – Wednesday, Feb 25
Service restarts on some hosts.
Looked into automating some periodic restarts. One app vendor suggests using SQL Agent. I don’t really like the idea of using SQL Agent for non-database tasks. Found an interesting exercise in CMD batch file writing in a Microsoft script to restart IIS services. Powershell is another possibility.
Problems with SharePoint search service.
Greg [...]
Connecting to SharePoint with My Network Places (WinXP)
SharePoint supports connections the use the WebDAV protocol, which provides read and write capabilities over HTTP. In Windows Vista, you can actually map a drive letter to a SharePoint document library. In Windows XP, you can create a “Network Place,” opening the document library as a Windows Explorer window, which lets you drag and drop [...]
Event: IT-Discuss Live – SharePoint
Please join your IT colleagues for the first IT-Discuss Live event!
UVM IT-Discuss Live – SharePoint
Friday, October 10
11:30 am to 1:30 pm
[Update: location changed]
Livak Ballroom, Davis Center, Fourth Floor
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This is the first in a continuing series of gatherings; a combination of technology presentations and demonstrations, round-table discussions and Q&A, collective troubleshooting and building of professional [...]
