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Upgrading SCVMM When TFS Lab Management is Connected
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over 1 year ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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Fought with a good problem yesterday. After upgrading my System Center Virtual Machine Manager to 2012 R2; I could not change the SCVMM Settings in Team Foundation Server 2012 Lab Management to point to the new SCVMM server. I could add the library...
Tip 47: One Windows System Stability Index Score to Rule Them All
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over 2 years ago
by
Chad Schultz - MSFT
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...
Tip 39: Set Visual Upgrade Back to Previous Version Part Deux
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over 4 years ago
by
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...
Tip 46: Is This Computer Junk? Windows Reliability Index and Reliability Monitor
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over 2 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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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...
Current Windows Server 2012 / R2 & Windows 8 / 8.1 Update Rollups
Posted
6 days ago
by
Chad Schultz - MSFT
This list is current up to January 2015. There are some wikis also being maintained by MVPs: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/23820.list-of-rollup-updates-for-windows-8-and-windows-server-2012.aspx , http://social.technet.microsoft...
Tip 7: Set Diagnostic Logging Back to Defaults
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and may apply to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. One great way to troubleshoot any SharePoint issue is to set the SharePoint diagnostics...
Tip 41: The Phantom of the Session 0
Posted
over 3 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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...
Tip 5: Use a SQL Connection Alias
Posted
over 5 years ago
by
Chad Schultz - MSFT
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Hyper-V 2012 Compare-VM PowerShell Cmdlet Error
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Chad Schultz - MSFT
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I wanted to get this information out as when I was researching the error below I could not find any information on it online or in our internal database. Hopefully it helps someone out there and they don't have to have a night sleep to have their, eureka...
Tip 27: Workflow Overflow
Posted
over 5 years ago
by
Chad Schultz - MSFT
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 . There is a hidden list in SharePoint called Workflow History . This list is hidden from...
Tip 55: My Disk is a Cluster ****
Posted
over 1 year ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
My disk is a cluster size , of 4Kb. This is the default cluster size of an NTFS volume up to 16TB ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140365 ). But is this the best size to use? There are many performance whitepapers that recommend that other cluster...
Tip 2: Updating Big Content Farms
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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Tip 31: The 411 on 401s
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Chad Schultz - MSFT
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...
Tip 29: X-Header Marks the Spot
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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...
Second contribution to the Script Repository
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Chad Schultz - MSFT
I was cruising around the internet when I came across many users having issues with the visibility of the IE 10 and 11 scrollbar. I have noticed on some monitors and color combinations that the bar is sometimes difficult to see. So I fixed it up with...
ITPro Camp Tampa - Root Cause Slow Boot/Slow Login With WPT
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over 1 year ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
Spoke about how to troubleshoot slow boot and slow logon situations at ITPro Camp Tampa on Saturday. Thank you to everyone that came out. Attached is the slide deck from the presentation. *Edit Updated the PowerPoint
Tip 44: How Fast is That Download in the Window
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over 3 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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...
Tip 11: Troubleshooting SharePoint Events Log Entries with EventTriggers.exe
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over 5 years ago
by
Chad Schultz - MSFT
This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0/3.0, SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint Foundation 2010, SharePoint Server 2010 and really any Windows computer, XP and up which is writing an Event Log entry...
Introducing SharePoint Tip of the Day
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over 5 years ago
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Chad Schultz - MSFT
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In the spirit of Sara Ford's Visual Studio 2008 Tip of the Day ( http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/07/21/introducing-visual-studio-2008-tip-of-the-day.aspx ); I am going to attempt to put out a SharePoint Tip of the Day. I will not be version...
First Contribution to the Script Repository
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Chad Schultz - MSFT
For anyone that hasn't seen it, the Microsoft Script Repository, http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter, is a great place to find all types of scripts, VBScript, JavaScript, PowerShell, etc. Today I uploaded a script that will work like...
Changing the Game
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Chad Schultz - MSFT
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...
Tip 19: Keep Track of That Application Pool
Posted
over 5 years ago
by
Chad Schultz - MSFT
This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0/3.0, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and may apply to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010; when running on IIS 6.0 or IIS 7.0/7.5 with the IIS...
Tip 21: Don't Read That SharePoint ULS Log
Posted
over 5 years ago
by
Chad Schultz - MSFT
1
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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. A very good tool to use when troubleshooting SharePoint are the Unified Logging Service (ULS...
Clarity on Microsoft Security Advisory 2416728 and WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Chad Schultz - MSFT
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...
Tip 20: “Papers Please!”, or SharePoint Extranet Authentication
Posted
over 5 years ago
by
Chad Schultz - MSFT
This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Did you know that you have many options available for account storage and authentication in extranet scenarios in SharePoint by using Forms Based Authentication...
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