Nov
03
2009

Sharepoint – farm build procedure

After a semi-disaster with SharePoint earlier this week, I have been forced into the view that I really should have our SharePoint infrastructure hosted on more than one web server.  To that end, I am planning the deployment of a new, 2+ node Windows SharePoint Services farm. 
Initial architecture will be something like this:

Host: SharePoint2

Roles:  [...]

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Feb
13
2009

HTTP to HTTPS redirect using Iconic URL Rewriter

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So, you have a site that needs to to run over SSL-only (shouldn’t they all?)? You don’t trust your clients to type that ever-important “s” after “http” (and why would they?)? You think they will get scared off by those “Secure connection required” error pages (they will!)? You are not running IIS7 (who is?)? Not [...]

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Oct
30
2008

BitLocker Recovery Tool Problems

The motherboard on my trusty Dell Latitude D820 went sour this Sunday, requiring a full replacement.  No one was ever killed by losing access to their laptop for a few days, but I was somewhat annoyed to have lost access to my iTunes installation (thus making backup and sync of my iPod impossible), and I [...]

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Feb
12
2008

Setting Up Server 2008 Core

Configuring IPv4 on the Local network interface:
http://www.petri.co.il/configure_tcp_ip_from_cmd.htm -and-
http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/2005/10/using-netsh-to-set-multiple-dns-server.htm

To set your IP address:
netsh interface ip set address name=”Local Area Connection” static <ip address> <netmask> <default gateway>
(Note:  If you are using netsh on a platform earlier than Server 2008 (i.e. Server 2003) you may nned to provide more explicit parameters such as:
netsh interface ip set address name”Local Area [...]

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Feb
12
2008

Making "PostReflect.exe" functional

Vista Service Pack 1 is here, and with it a few new tricks that need to be learned.  The first shocker for me is that you cannot apply Vista SP1 to an offline image… bummer!  I had understood from earlier MS brags about Vista that the "componentized" (sic) OS could always be maintained offline.  Adding [...]

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Feb
06
2008

Windows DS woes… and the cure

The people in the computer depot clinic reported a vexing problem with Windows DS deployment today… one of the techs reported a 0×80070020 error in a WDS deployment session.  The text was “Windows cannot install required files”.  There is no mention of which files, which is quite irritating.  The error comes up after 20-25 minutes [...]

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Nov
16
2007

iSCSI block device migraiton plan for NetApp filer

If you have a NetApp, and you ever need a plan for migrating your iSCSI block devices from one filer head to another, here is a step by step:

Stop services on your iSCSI initiator host that may be writing to your lun to be migrated.
Refresh your target lun from source using snapmirror:snapmirror update <target>
Break your [...]

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Nov
16
2007

Migrating NetApp filers

We are preparing to migrate from our FAS270c NetApp filer to a new FAS3050c.  Migration/Upgrade procedure documentation is a bit sketchy on the NetApp site, so I thought I should put together my own step-by-step.  Here it is, a work in progress…

Pre-migration:

Verify destination filer settings:

Quota configuration – compare /etc/quotas to current config on “files”. [...]

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Oct
15
2007

Networking Wierdness? Disable IPv6 on Server 2008

If your network is like ours (and I hope that it is not), your DNS server is happily accepting IPv6 address registrations, but your routers can’t makes heads or tails of all those packets with those long addresses on them.  Is this a problem?  You betcha’.
If a client (Windows Server 2008, Vista, or really just about [...]

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Aug
14
2007

Weyland.be » Disable System Beep in Windows Vista

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