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OK, right up front I have to state that either Ballmer & Co are absolutely brilliant OR the lot of them have been smoking copious amounts of crack somewhere on the Redmond campus.  I have started to noodle about with Windows 8 (the Consumer preview) and I have to say that I’m kind of leaning …

A situation arose the other day where we needed to install DLL’s directly into the GAC, and the thing is locked down tighter than … well, insert your best dirty joke here.  Needless to say, where there’s a will, there’s a way.  I will make the disclaimer right now, you should never ever do this!  …

We recently needed to create a PowerShell script to log to the event viewer and reboot the machine on a schedule.  This is what we came up with. The PowerShell $evt=new-object System.Diagnostics.EventLog("Application") $evt.Source="itgroove Scheduled Reboot" $infoevent=[System.Diagnostics.EventLogEntryType]::Information $vdate=Get-Date $val="itgroove Scheduled Reboot Event at: ["+$vdate+"]" $evt.WriteEntry($val,$infoevent,70) Restart-Computer –Force You simply put this into a file (such as …

I’ve been asked to take credit for my own work.  I suppose I can do that.  My boss man posted a video here of what our SharePoint portal looks like.  I built most of the picture rotator search page, the mega menu’s, and did a lot to clean-up the branding.  Have a look-see. http://blog.brainlitter.com/2012/05/10/yes-sharepoint-can-look-this-pretty-and-be-this-easy-to-use/

We recently ran into an issue where the Timer Service in SharePoint was complaining incessantly about Event 6872, SharePoint Foundation. A critical error occurred while processing the incoming e-mail file c:inetpubmailrootdrop4dd4690601cd288b00000005.eml. The error was: Access to the path ‘4dd4690601cd288b00000005.eml’ is denied.. To resolve this, you can simply go into the SMTP service (Control Panel –> …

I recently ran into this issue, and found a rather unorthodox way around it.  Note that this unlikely a supported technique, but it should get you up and running.  We contacted Nintex support and they asked all the regular questions, but we simply didn’t have time to waste going back and forth over all the …

If you happen to use SkyDrive, be aware that MS has decided to downgrade you from a 25 GB limit to a 7 GB limit.  They are giving you a brief window of opportunity to reclaim your 25 GB, but you have to actively go out and get it.  As you see in the image …

I was recently working with a colleague on a SharePoint coding problem involving a ContentTypeId we had assumed was correct, but quickly found out was coming up as something completely unexpected.  We were performing a CAML query in C#, in which were were trying to retrieve the ContentType, and the unique ContentTypeId values.  The values …

This is copied from a daily email I get from powershell.com Getting Windows Product Key Ever wanted to read out the Windows license key? In the Windows Registry, this key is present, but it is stored as a digital ID. To convert it back to the license key used to originally license the product, try …

I was asked by a customer to produce a PowerShell script to iterate over all of the sites in a particular site collection and change the search target to the following address “http://[searchsite]/”.  This is the result of that request. $site = Get—SPSite "http://[site]" foreach ($web in $site.Allwebs) {     Write—Host "Modifying all search result …