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One of the biggest user peeves with SharePoint is the authentication prompts. I get questions about this all the time, so I thought I would explain some simple configuration changes either you or your system administrator can implement to make your SharePoint...
Is Charter Throttling My Bandwidth?
I had recently worked on a problem with a customer in which they had been experiencing issues with the phone quality of their Voice-over-IP (VOIP) phone system at one of their branch offices (VPN connection). During my review, I was told the Internet connection was...
NtFrs Error 13559 OR When in Doubt, Read the Error
One of our IT support customers was complaining that their "sysvol" share on their Windows Server 2003 R2 domain controllers was not replicating content (updated group policies, login scripts, etc.). Upon initial examination, I ran across this error in the event logs:...
Love for the Linux Users
It never hurts to have a quick reference for Linux administration commands, so I wanted to put out some helpful items for user, file, directory, and group management. Linux Commands for managing users: adduser - Command used to add user accounts. chage - Used to...
Move all databases (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
If you're like me, this is definitely in your Top 10 WSS/MOSS 2007 requests. Never fails, the database server is provisioned with less than adequate storage, or the company utilization and adoption of SharePoint has been more than successful. None the less, the...
Using VMware Server 1.x to Break Exchange 2007 OWA
Another dumb mistake: installed VMware Server 1.8 on an Exchange 2007 SP1 server with the client access role installed. Instead of choosing the "custom" install option, as I usually do, I was in a hurry and chose "complete". Halfway through the install, I remembered...
Unable to browse My Network in a 2008 Domain
As Windows Server 2008 takes it's place in more data centers, serving as a domain controller, design changes are starting to impact end users. One of these notable changes effects a workflow most users have picked up: browsing the network to find file servers and...
Search Cisco NetPro forums from your browser
The Cisco NetPro forum is an excellent resource when searching for answers to Cisco specific issues. To my knowledge Google doesn't index these forums, but Cisco made a browser plug-in that adds a NetPro forum search option to your browser’s existing search bar....
Distribution Groups, Exchange 2007, and SharePoint 2007
To Distro or not to distro... Our customer needed distribution groups from their various SharePoint sites for creating alerts on shared lists and libraries. Until now, the site administrator was constantly having to add and manage these alerts all on an individual...
SharePoint Search problems on Server 2008?
After installing WSS3 SP2 on a clean install of Server 2008 x86 SP2 STD, and using SQL 2008 SP1 as the backend, I could not get any search results. The setup is about as simple of a farm installation you can get, it is for a small number of users, and demonstration purposes, so everything is installed on a single machine virtualized on an HP server running VMware ESXi 3.5. There are two site collections using different application pools, one enabled for anonymous access, and the other not.