SharePoint 2010 and the Health Analyzer | The Beagle - Technology for SMB's

Good article about Sharepoint and the Health Analyzer.  The main take away for me was the index fill factor which I've over looked in previous deployments.

SharePoint 2010 and the Health Analyzer | The Beagle - Technology for SMB's:

Reference: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=24282

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SQL Powershell Set all DBs to Simple recovery

Simple recovery model has its place but here's an easy way to set it programatically

$DBinstanace = sqlserver:\sql\\
gci $DBinstanace\Databases| where {$_.RecoveryModel -like "Full"}|`
foreach {
$_.RecoveryModel = [Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.RecoveryModel]::Simple
$_.Alter()
}

Sharepoint 2010 PrerequisiteInstaller.Arguments File

Here's a helpful tip if you create your own PrerequisiteInstaller.Arguments.txt file.  Make sure there is a space at the end of each line if you're breaking it out to make it more readable.

/unattended
/SQLNCli:PrerequisiteInstallerFiles\sqlncli.msi
/ChartControl:PrerequisiteInstallerFiles\MSChart.exe
/IDFXR2:PrerequisiteInstallerFiles\Windows6.1-KB974405-x64.msu
/NETFX35SP1:PrerequisiteInstallerFiles\dotnetfx35setup.exe
/KB976462:PrerequisiteInstallerFiles\Windows6.1-KB976462-v2-x64.msu
/Sync:PrerequisiteInstallerFiles\Synchronization.msi
/FilterPack:PrerequisiteInstallerFiles\FilterPack\FilterPack.msi
/ADOMD:PrerequisiteInstallerFiles\SQLSERVER2008_ASADOMD10.msi
/Speech:PrerequisiteInstallerFiles\SpeechPlatformRuntime.msi
/SpeechLPK:PrerequisiteInstallerFiles\MSSpeech_SR_en-US_TELE.msi
/ReportingServices:PrerequisiteInstallerFiles\rsSharePoint.msi

other resources:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff686793.aspx#switcharg
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx#section5

PST Capture - Microsoft Download Center - Download Details

I discovered this the other day. I thought it looked like it was worth sharing.

Microsoft Exchange PST Capture is used to discover and import .pst files into Exchange Server or Exchange Online

Download: PST Capture - Microsoft Download Center - Download Details:

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List of currently available hotfixes for Distributed File System (DFS) technologies in Windows Server 2008 and in Windows Server 2008 R2

List of currently available hotfixes for Distributed File System (DFS) technologies in Windows Server 2008 and in Windows Server 2008 R2:

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Wmidiag 2.1

WMIDiag 2.1 is here!

Whoops, My bad...

Yea so I was trying to correct an issue a while back, and then a few days ago I changed my password. Afterwards I was unable to connect to the lync control panel to manage users. Every thing else worked fine.  This was the error message below when connecting to the CP.

So what did I do wrong?  Well it's simple really now that I figured it out.

Click the basic settings screen for IIS 7.5 actions pane (right side),
on the edit site window, click connect as
change it back to passthru


Error Summary
HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error
The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.

Detailed Error Information
Module IIS Web Core
Notification Unknown
Handler Not yet determined
Error Code 0x8007052e
Config Error

Can not log on locally to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Lync Server 2010\Web Components\Internal Website as user joeblow-adm@contoso with virtual directory password

Config File
\\?\C:\inetpub\temp\apppools\CSIntConfAppPool\CSIntConfAppPool.config

Requested URL
http://localhost:80/

Physical Path
Logon Method Not yet determined
Logon User Not yet determined

Config Source
  152:                
  153:                     joeblow-adm@contoso" password="[enc:AesProvider:3kQl4DocwKRf0PUrWuRu607OCRzM1hmxNLs5JxadIHK9zndCmVtsORPbjoz2Q5pe:enc]" />
  154:                     \\fs01.contoso.int\LyncFS$\1-WebServices-1\MeetingFiles" userName="" password="[enc:AesProvider:qSCnmWhk06ysPT4QG2e5mETtieO6v716/jqKNED8D84=:enc]" />