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Hidden Treasures from the great white sandy North... Beach ;)
Tip 49: How Do You Set Default User Profile Registry Settings
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1 month ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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This tip is for Windows 2000 and up. Instructions for Windows NT 4.0 can be found at; http://support.microsoft.com/kb/146050 . The following instructions are based on Windows 7. The steps may be different in other versions of Windows. Since the instructions...
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Tip 48: Setting Up and Installing Printers in Windows
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1 month ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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This tip is for Windows XP SP3, Vista, 7 and possibly 8. This is going to be a long post, but is not meant to be all inclusive. There are definitely other ways to setup and install printers, but the ways below are a good practice to follow as they...
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Tip 47: One Windows System Stability Index Score to Rule Them All
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2 months ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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This tip is for Windows Vista, 2008 Server RTM and up. Since I talked about Wbemtest.exe and Windows System Stability Index in the last posts I thought I would do something useful with the treasure trove of reliability information available through...
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Tip 46: Is This Computer Junk? Windows Reliability Index and Reliability Monitor
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2 months ago
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This tip is for Windows Vista, 2008 Server RTM and up. How reliable is a computer? Most of the time if you ask this question, you will get a subjective answer; depending on the how the day is going of the person you posed the question to. If you are...
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Tip 45: WBEMTEST, the underappreciated tool
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2 months ago
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This tip is for all versions of Windows, Windows NT and up. One of my favorite built in tools in Windows is Wbemtest.exe. It is not the prettiest program ever created, but the power to find out information on your computer and other computers on the...
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Tip 44: How Fast is That Download in the Window
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9 months ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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This tip is for Windows Vista, 2008 RTM, 2008 R2 and 7. Your Internet Explorer download window may be lying to you. If so, how can you tell? Your Youtube video is taking forever to play, or is stopping. How fast is your connection? Sure, you can try...
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Tip 43: SharePoint 2010 - Create a New Active Directory Attribute and Map into the User Profile Store
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9 months ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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This tip is for SharePoint Server 2010 . I had this post sitting for a bit in my drafts and decided I should put it out there. User profiles have been getting a lot of attention with SharePoint 2010. In this post I am going to show you how you can...
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Tip 42: Viewing Detailed Windows 7 Wireless Information
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9 months ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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Happy 802.11 day! This tip is for Windows Vista, 2008 RTM, 2008 R2 and 7. If you work on a laptop, you will have undoubtedly run into the following scenario. You try to connect to the work WiFi network, only to find that you cannot get connected, but...
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Tip 41: The Phantom of the Session 0
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11 months ago
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This tip is for Windows Vista, 7, 2008 and 2008 R2. Windows Vista introduced session 0 driver and service isolation. To understand why this is cool, see the following article; http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463353.aspx . When...
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Changing the Game
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11 months ago
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If anyone is out there and reading this, you may have noticed the scarcity of tips lately. Expect some new content in the future as I have moved on to a new position, Premier Field Engineer. I will be focusing on Platform Performance, so expect some good...
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Tip 40: IIS Application Pool Tracking
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over 2 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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This tip pertains to all versions of SharePoint and no versions of SharePoint. It is really more of an IIS troubleshooting tip. When strange things happen to IIS application pools I am reminded of the old public service announcement, “ Do you...
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Clarity on Microsoft Security Advisory 2416728 and WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007
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over 2 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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UPDATE 8:39P 9/21/2010 - Looks like the SharePoint Team blog post has been updated with new information. While you could do the steps below for WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007, they are not needed. Only SharePoint 2010 and WSS 2.0 are affected. There have been some...
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Tip 39: Set Visual Upgrade Back to Previous Version Part Deux
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over 2 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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This tip is for SharePoint Foundation 2010 , SharePoint Server 2010 and Search Server 2010 Express . So you have your heart set on the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 look; I know, how could you not just looooove it? But have just installed a fresh new SharePoint...
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Tip 38: SharePoint 2010 Enable Visual Upgrade on Sites with PowerShell
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over 2 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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This tip is for SharePoint Foundation 2010 , SharePoint Server 2010 and Search Server 2010 Express . When upgrading to SharePoint 2010 from WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007 or Search Search 2008 there are some choices on whether or not the administrator wants to...
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Tip 37: Dedicated Crawl Servers in SharePoint 2010
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over 2 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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This tip is for SharePoint Server 2010 and Search Server 2010 Express . In the olden days MOSS 2007 ;) you could set a dedicated web front end for crawling which is used to reduce the stress of crawling from other web front end servers that users use...
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Tip 36: SharePoint Search Server Name Mappings
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over 2 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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This tip is for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 , Search Server 2008 , SharePoint Server 2010 and Search Server 2010 Express . Need to return search results with a different URL than the URL that was crawled by SharePoint? You can do this using...
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New SharePoint Foundation 2010 Update Out - KB2032588
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over 2 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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If your SharePoint 2010 servers are running Automatic Updates you may see a new SharePoint Foundation 2010 update listed. Update 2032588 was released yesterday, July 13, 2010. For more information on what this update contains see the following KB; http...
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Tip 35: Run Every Timer Job Now!
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over 2 years ago
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This tip is for SharePoint Foundation 2010 , SharePoint Server 2010 and Search Server 2010 Express . Are you sick of waiting for a timer job to run? Don't want to use the "Run Now" button in the timer job definitions properties page in Central Administration...
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Tip 34: Adding a SharePoint 2010 Search Suggestion
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over 2 years ago
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This tip is for SharePoint Server 2010 , Search Server 2010 and Search Server 2010 Express . SharePoint Server 2010 and Search Server 2010 Express include a new feature for search called Search Suggestions. Search suggestions are listing below the...
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Installing SharePoint 2010 RTM Over Previous Versions
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over 2 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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Before even writing on how this can be done I have to state that I would not recommend this be done on a production system. Previous versions of any software is going to leave traces of itself even after an uninstall so, while everything may seem to be...
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Tip 33: Branch Cache and SharePoint 2010, or How to Make SharePoint Fast over Slow Networks
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over 2 years ago
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This tip is for SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 when running on Windows 2008 R2 and browsing SharePoint on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 and up. My internal training in the next version of SharePoint has sparked some intriguing...
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Tip 32: Are My Servers Offloading?
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over 2 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 , SharePoint Portal Server 2003 , Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 , Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 , SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 when running on Windows 2003 SP1 w/ Scalable...
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Tip 31: The 411 on 401s
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over 2 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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This tip pertains to all versions of SharePoint and no versions of SharePoint. Again, it is really more of an IIS troubleshooting tip. Since you have gone through Tip 30 and enabled all of the extended logging options in IIS you will not doubt have...
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Tip 30: Better Logs = Better Troubleshooting
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over 2 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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This tip pertains to all versions of SharePoint and no versions of SharePoint. It is really more of an IIS troubleshooting tip. But we’ll let it slide for today. :) The extended logging options in IIS can help in troubleshooting issues in SharePoint...
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Tip 29: X-Header Marks the Spot
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over 2 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 , Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and may apply to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 . Although it is a good practice to manage the RFC 2822 header fields, or X-Headers in...
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