Mar
30
2007

Emulating OEM Partitions with DISKPART

Sometimes I get tired of trying to find pristine systems in our Computer Depot to test out system imaging scenarios. The main reason I need clean, un-touched systems is that no one wants to subject their production computer to experimental re-deployment. However, another frequent need for fresh systems is that we need computers [...]

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Mar
27
2007

Repairing sites with “stsadm -o export”

We had a rather awful public relations fiasco with a Sharepoint site over the past three weeks. Users replying to existing posts in discussion board web parts always receive “User not found” errors (their replies get posted, but they get no notification of this). I was almost incapable of getting help from Microsoft [...]

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Mar
26
2007

CPU Smackdown! Throttling rogue threads on Terminal Servers

I am most pelased today to have done something positive for our Terminal Server environment. By using the fine freeware product “Threadmaster” I have been able to throttle back those rogue Approach.exe applications on the Terminal Servers to use no more than their fair share of the CPU.
Threadmaster can be downloaded here:
http://threadmaster.tripod.com/
Config is easy… [...]

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