Performance issues due to Inactive Terminal Server Ports - Ask the Performance Team - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Performance issues due to Inactive Terminal Server Ports - Ask the Performance Team - Site Home - TechNet Blogs:

Enabling Strict Replication Via ADSI so you don't ever forget

Powershell Baby!

# Get the distinguished name of the Active Directory domain
$DomainDn = ([adsi]"").distinguishedName

# Build distinguished name path of the Operations container
$OperationsPath = "CN=Operations,CN=ForestUpdates,CN=Configuration," + $DomainDn

# Retrieve a reference to the Operations container using the path we just built
$OperationsContainer = [adsi]"LDAP://$OperationsPath"

# Create a new object inside the Operations container using the GUID, of type "container"
$StrictReplicationContainer = $OperationsContainer.Create("Container", "CN=94fdebc6-8eeb-4640-80de-ec52b9ca17fa")

# Commit the new object to the Active Directory database
$StrictReplicationContainer.SetInfo()

Data Inspirations » Installing Reporting Services 2008 R2 in SharePoint Integrated Mode

Data Inspirations » Installing Reporting Services 2008 R2 in SharePoint Integrated Mode:

'via Blog this'

SharePoint 2010 Branding « The SharePoint Muse

SharePoint 2010 Branding « The SharePoint Muse:

'via Blog this'

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

'via Blog this'

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