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  • Blog Post: Tip 24: Save Typing For The Typists

    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 SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. As a SharePoint administrator there will be many times that you will find youself running the SharePoint command...
    on 4 Jan 2010

  • Blog Post: Tip 51: DCOM Permissions Error Troubleshooting

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    System Event 10016 The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Launch permission for the COM Server application with CLSID {GUID} and APPID {GUID} to the user <USER> from address <NETWORKADDRESS> (Using LRPC/RPC). This security permission can be modified using the Component...
    on 15 May 2012

  • Blog Post: Tip 27: Workflow Overflow

    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 the “View All Site Content” and the...
    on 8 Jan 2010

  • Blog Post: Tip 40: IIS Application Pool Tracking

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    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 know where your children are? ” Well, do you...
    on 19 Nov 2010

  • Blog Post: Swap or Change Network Cards in Hyper-V

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
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    on 9 Nov 2012

  • Blog Post: Tip 10: Recycling is good for SharePoint’s Environment Too

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    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. Did you know that there are 2 recycle bins in SharePoint? One bin that can be used by site users to recover...
    on 1 Dec 2009

  • Blog Post: Tip 12: Hide in plain view with SharePoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    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. To celebrate my watching of a classic ninja movie last night; I thought my next tip should be about...
    on 3 Dec 2009

  • Blog Post: Tip 48: Setting Up and Installing Printers in Windows

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    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 do not rely on any registry hacking or trickery to...
    on 30 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Tip 17: That’s A Lot of Commands

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Did you know that in WSS 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 there are > 200 stsadm.exe commands? Please see the following link for a complete reference; http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library...
    on 10 Dec 2009

  • Blog Post: SharePoint Tip of the Day on Break

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    SharePoint Tip of the Day will be back Monday January 4, 2010. Some good tips on the way, so be on the lookout next year. Happy Holidays!
    on 22 Dec 2009

  • Blog Post: Tip 9: Adding Accounts to a Site

    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 and SharePoint Server 2010. The reason I didn’t say in the title of this post “Adding Users to a Site” is that the best practice...
    on 30 Nov 2009

  • Blog Post: Tip 28: Keep Slim and Trim

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    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 . To reduce update surface and reduce conflicts, it is always a good idea to only load...
    on 11 Jan 2010

  • Blog Post: Tip 43: SharePoint 2010 - Create a New Active Directory Attribute and Map into the User Profile Store

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    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 create your very own Active Directory attribute...
    on 5 Aug 2011

  • Blog Post: Tip 32: Are My Servers Offloading?

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    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 Networking Pack and versions of Windows since...
    on 12 Feb 2010

  • Blog Post: Introducing SharePoint Tip of the Day

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    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 specific, so tips can be from SharePoint 2001/SharePoint...
    on 13 Nov 2009

  • Blog Post: Tip 50: Wipe your **** after you’re done

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    I know what you were thinking but the **** stands for data, or bits. I remember using some old Norton Utilities to wipe deleted files from hard drives. I’m not sure why I did it, as I’m sure the data I had deleted was not important to anyone to want to take the time to try and recover, but...
    on 16 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Tip 18: Trust in Thy SharePoint

    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 entering an account to a securable SharePoint object, the “Check Names” function is...
    on 11 Dec 2009

  • Blog Post: Tip 2: Updating Big Content Farms

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
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    on 17 Nov 2009

  • Blog Post: Tip 4: No Mouse, No Problem

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
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    on 19 Nov 2009

  • Blog Post: Cipher wipe shell extension

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
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    on 18 Sep 2012

  • Blog Post: Tip 35: Run Every Timer Job Now!

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    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->Monitoring->Review Job Definitions...
    on 25 Jun 2010

  • Blog Post: Tip 52: Mixing the Old and New; Setting a Printer’s Print Processor Using PowerShell, WMI and Setprinter.exe

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    This tip has a little bit of everything thrown into the mix. Old Windows Resource Kit files, PowerShell, WMI and printers all in one; for the same low price of free! I just helped one our hardware partners on an issue with printing. Turns out I don’t know as much as I thought about the subject...
    on 31 Oct 2012

  • Blog Post: Tip 7: Set Diagnostic Logging Back to Defaults

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    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 logging to “ Verbose ” for the category...
    on 24 Nov 2009

  • Blog Post: Tip 30: Better Logs = Better Troubleshooting

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    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. HTTP status code logging can help with unauthorized...
    on 20 Jan 2010

  • Blog Post: Tip 49: How Do You Set Default User Profile Registry Settings

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    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 in this post will show how to edit the Windows...
    on 25 Apr 2012