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IISReset for the Sneaky SharePoint Admin
What First off a disclaimer. In a production SharePoint environment, of course you shouldn’t perform an IISRESET/system reset when users are connected. Buuuuutttttt, in those instances where you are in a jam, or the system is in testing or you’re feeling brazen, I’m just saying you “coullldddd” consider the following… I was working with a …
Read onWhat are your “Pain Points”? We’d like to help.
itgroove is a business technology solutions provider. We have lots of tools and technology available that can be used to solve any number of business issues. And we have the knowledge and experience to map the solutions out for you, as well as the skills to implement the needed hardware, software and procedures. You have …
Read onOn Generating an SSL Wildcard Certificate CSR
Yo, while I have generated a wildcard cert before (more expensive, supports any prefix such as www.itgroove.net, portal.itgroove.net, mail.itgroove.net) it has been a long while and I figured while it may seem obvious after the fact, the scary bit is wanting to make sure you have the CSR (request) format correct before you submit it …
Read onMajor ASP.NET Vulnerability
To our valued clients, itgroove wants to let you know about an important security risk that has been discovered. Microsoft has advised it partners and customers worldwide of a vulnerability in one of the backend fundamental components of SharePoint – asp.net – that can allow an attacker to penetrate and manipulate SharePoint installations. …
Read onLearn a bunch about your webserver – ServerInsiders.com
Want to learn a bunch about your webserver? Simply append the domain name on to the end of http://serversiders.com/ and you will divulge quite a bit of background. I’ve typically used NetCraft.com in the past but frankly, I like this better. Cleaner, more detail, etc. and the combination of it and NetCraft provides a whole …
Read onBenefits of working with itgroove
We spent a little time this week putting together a list of what we believe are the benefits customers get, working with itgroove. You’ll notice we didn’t put things like we’re wicked smart” or “we’re great haxors”. We tried to compile a list of value we provide to a customer, based on our approach to …
Read onDCPromo’ing a SharePoint Server
Notes: Don’t ask why the SharePoint server is a DC. It is not recommended that a SharePoint Server is a DC, but in some situations we don’t have a choice… Don’t ask why we had to demote and then re-promote the SharePoint server as a DC. You should try to avoid a demotion/promotion of a …
Read onIIS Logging Fields necessary for statistics packages
I was enabling some 3rd party web server statistics software today (Smarterstats by www.smartertools.com) on a SharePoint server and it was necessary to make sure all the appropriate fields necessary for returning all information, in all reports were set. For Smarterstats (and in general this can apply to all webstatistics software), the following are necessary …
Read onClearing (IIS Logfiles) Disk Space on Windows Servers
Although there are a number of techniques and places to look to clear disk space on a Windows server, including pruning SQL transaction logs, removing HIBERFIL.SYS, moving the pagefile to another drive, one of the most effective I’ve found has been removing HTTP logs that get accumulated daily (particularly if you have turned logging on, …
Read onBinding additional IP Addresses in IIS on Windows Server 2008
This was a strange one today. Not sure what the brainstorm behind why the change in IIS (sigh, so much has changed in Windows Server 2008 IIS). I wanted to bind a SharePoint Web Application to a second (additional IP) address I added to my Windows 2008 Server. In Windows Server 2003, once this has …
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