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) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [vCalendar file] This is the first in a continuing series of gatherings; a combination of technology presentations and demonstrations, round-table discussions and [...]
Geoffrey Duke
Sr. System Administrator,
University of Vermont