It's my life... And I live it... : Technology

Windows PowerShell Blog : Windows Management Framework is here!

Richard — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:36:11 GMT

FINALLY it is released. PowerShell 2.0 is now available in RTM form.

Download today and get all the new WMI features and the new Remoting framework for PowerShell and management. Also don’t forget the BITS commandlets for downloading large files from the internet and from file shares.

Windows PowerShell Blog : Windows Management Framework is here!

NASA - Test of Futuristic X-48C is Historic Wind Tunnel's Swan Song

Richard — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:08:42 GMT

A great piece of history going away.

Langley decommissioned the tunnel in 1995, and then leased it to Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., for research and student engineering training. That lease was up this summer and the tunnel is scheduled for demolition because of its lack of national strategic importance, limited testing capability, deteriorating condition and the environmental liability associated with the materials used in its construction.

NASA - Test of Futuristic X-48C is Historic Wind Tunnel's Swan Song

Windows PowerShell Blog : WMI Object Identifiers and Keys

Richard — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:31:38 GMT

This is how you can use the “linking” classes in WMI to get the objects in PowerShell without doing a second WMI query.

Windows PowerShell Blog : WMI Object Identifiers and Keys

NO! Your SharePoint Farm Account does NOT need local admin privileges. So don't give it them! (UNLESS…)

Richard — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:24:12 GMT

Technically this blog entry is right, HOWEVER if you use that same account to administrate the farm, it needs to be admin on the servers in order to extend a Web Application. Certain services and operations require admin rights as a comment mentioned not seeing. If you don’t have an account with those privileges then you won’t be able to manage the services or IIS sites (not to mention the two other issues in the snippet below). To save headaches people just usually make that account admin. For the tightest security you would follow the guidance below. However if you make the account admin does not mean that the install is inherently insecure either.

Easily the most irritating element of mis-configuration in a SharePoint 2007 farm is the assignment of local admin privileges (for each box in the farm) to the account used for connections to the configuration database and as the identity of the application pool hosting Central Administration (commonly referred to as the 'farm account'.

THIS IS NOT A REQUIREMENT!! THIS IS NOT A REQUIREMENT!!

Your farm account can be a regular domain user, no special requirements at all. The SharePoint Configuration Wizard will assign ALL the required privileges automatically (which the exception of DCOM activation as detailed here, and the issue with %windir%\Tasks).

NO! Your SharePoint Farm Account does NOT need local admin privileges. So don't give it them!

Kimberly Tripp - SQL Goddess

Richard — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:01:22 GMT

She is really good in SQL and I recommend her blogs and webcasts if you want to understand some of the gotcha’s & optimizations in SQL Server. I learned about her from .NET Rocks back in the day.

http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/kimberly/

Here are some entries specifically for SharePoint

http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/KIMBERLY/category/Sharepoint.aspx

Transaction Log entries

http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/KIMBERLY/category/Transaction-Log.aspx

Here are some webcasts

http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/KIMBERLY/category/TechNet-Webcasts.aspx

iLove SharePoint: PowerShell & SharePoint - Quick Start

Richard — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:57:50 GMT

Now THIS is the way you load a SharePoint library into PowerShell.

LoadWithPartialName is dead!!! Yea!!!

#load Microsoft.SharePoint.dll

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom("$12HivesDir\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.dll")

iLove SharePoint: PowerShell & SharePoint - Quick Start

The PowerShell Guy : PowerShell : The Admin Development Model

Richard — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:08:42 GMT

This is a cool way to wait for an application to complete before continuing. This is a core .NET thing so it will not only work for PowerShell but it will also work for C# and VB too.

The PowerShell Guy : PowerShell : The Admin Development Model

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Announcing the Fourth Release of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit

Richard — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:15:31 GMT

These are cool updates to the administration toolkit for SharePoint. WSS and MOSS becomes a lot easier to diagnose if you install these tools.

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Announcing the Fourth Release of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit

Martin’s Blog » CardSpace InfoCard AuthModule SSO

Richard — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:14:04 GMT

This is a cool demonstration of adding CardSpace capabilities to OpenSSO. This something worth looking at so that traditional logins and password can become a thing of the past.

Martin’s Blog » CardSpace InfoCard AuthModule SSO

Mike Jones: self-issued » Information Card Standard Approved!

Richard — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:25:50 GMT

This totally snuck under the radar… Congratulations to the teams involved.

Mike Jones: self-issued » Information Card Standard Approved!

Estimate performance and capacity requirements for search environments

Richard — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:14:02 GMT

These are the tested scale for the MOSS environment. The maximum they tested was 50 million items.

Estimate performance and capacity requirements for search environments

SharePoint 2010 Overview Video

Richard — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:15:27 GMT

Here is an overview video. This is really good lead in for working with the next SharePoint Technology and WSS information.

Overview Video

Choice. Value. Innovation. - Home

Richard — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:57:24 GMT

Cool Beans… Better Together…

Choice. Value. Innovation. - Home

Home - SharePoint Training

Richard — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:16:13 GMT

This is a sample site that shows our SharePoint training offering that can be taken and user access tracked.

Home - SharePoint Training

Migrate from Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 to Office SharePoint Server 2007

Richard — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:01:34 GMT

Migrate from Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 to Office SharePoint Server 2007

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480225.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480227.aspx