Dec
21
2006

Vista Security, Config, Licensing, Imaging Committee:

Ben, Harjit, Peter, Jonathan, Greg, Dean, Andy G, Phil, E. Mike attending

Imaging:

No real progress on imaging since the last meeting.

We need to look at:

Offline image servicing

Unattended setup in “Factory Mode” of supplemental software following initial deployment

Segregation of WDS servers for Faculty/Staff vs. Student

Security:

Bitlocker

Capability to perform key escrow of TPM and Bitlocker data added to [...]

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Dec
11
2006

ApplicationXtenter Infrastructure Deployment Notes

It seems that I did not take good notes on how to install and configure ApplicationXtender server components. Bah… this made for some fun when rebuilding the test environment. Here goes…

Install Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition, with IIS. 

Bring up to current patch level

Install Oracle Client software…

we used 9.2.0.4 with all patches present on the Prod [...]

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Dec
11
2006

PDF Integration with WSS 3.0

Installing the PDF iFilter on WSS 3.0:
http://geekswithblogs.net/sspotts/archive/2006/11/03/96045.aspx

Associating an icon with PDF files in a Sharepoint library:
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/archive/2006/10/13/13812.aspx

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Dec
08
2006

Preparing for the Sharepoint v3 upgrade

The following steps may be accomplished before production service outage begins:

Install OS Services in support of Sharepoint 

Install .NET 3.0 framework

ensure that ASP.NET is installed on IIS server, make sure that ASP.NET 2.0 is activated:(run C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_regiis -i

Install WSSv3 (but cancel the configuration wizard)

Perform admin site config:

Configure to use NTLM authentication, NOT KERBEROS!

set incoming and outgoing email [...]

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