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Earlier today I needed a way to extract all the WSPs from a Production farm and copy them to a second farm (UAT).  I found this article and PowerShell script which did exactly what I needed.  Enjoy! http://www.sharepointbleached.com/2011/03/extract-wsp-solutions-from-sharepoint.html

This is a good (albeit poor-English) article on how to setup cascading dropdowns in InfoPath 2010.  http://basquang.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/cascading-drop-down-list-in-sharepoint-2010-using-infopath-2010/

I had promised more articles on Veeam but have been slow with the posts.  We’ve been waiting on the arrival of gear in our office to support our own Veeam installation (hard drive shortage sure playing havoc with server supply) so my articles have also been “on hold”.  Well, the real world jumped in and …

I found an excellent post on the benefits and trade-offs of using RBS with SharePoint.  Take a read below. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mossbiz/archive/2011/07/09/sharepoint-2010-rbs-benefits-trade-offs.aspx

We’ve seen this quite a bit on Exchange 2010 machines where the Exchange 2010 console will just hang when you try to access it.  After a period of time you might get a Kerberos or a WinRM error being displayed.  This seems to be a fairly common problem as there is a great deal of …

I’ve just spent 3 hours troubleshooting an ESXi 5 host that had the problem with VERY slow boot when using software iSCSI connections to the SAN.  VMware has released a patch that supposedly fixed the problem.  Well, I’m here to tell you that it has made ZERO difference to the machine in question; in fact, …

If you’ve ever wanted to take a long file path, and make it significantly shorter, you can!  A tool called Visual Subst is available which does exactly that.  This tool is a GUI version of the windows command subst, but is far easier to use. For example, say you want to mount a long path …

As promised, here’s the first in a series of posts on Veeam Backup & Replication 6. We recently installed Veeam Backup & Replication 6 at one of our customers.  Most of our VMware customer base use VMware Essentials licensing so it’s no surprise that our first Veeam install is also of the “Essentials” variety.  I’ll …

Have you ever copied some text from a web page or a document and then wanted to paste it as simple text into another application without getting all the formatting from the original source? PureText to the rescue! PureText makes this simple by adding a new Windows hot-key (default is WINDOWS+V) that allows you to …

When you want to include a link in an Outlook message, and that link happens to include a space character as part of the link, there’s a trick in Outlook to allow you to properly encode the link to get it to include the space every time. Let’s say your link is “\\ServerName\software\my folder\my stuff”, …