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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.  …

If your SharePoint 2010 upgrade is stuck and you get the following in Central Administration database is up to date, but some sites are not completely upgraded”. Note, there is a whole lot of misinformation out there about performing/reinitializing an upgrade by using the psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace v2v (or b2b) commands. However, this is …

Ok, I’ve run into this enough times now that I figure folks may not stumble across the Technet article that has already discussed this (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepoint2010setup/thread/5279f8da-2924-461f-8c35-5b81a2329927). I’ve seen this in three scenarios so far:   Number One: When running the SharePoint Configuration Wizard, if the account you have defined for your SQL Server connection is different …

Ok this one is kinda lame… but alas, the fix is simple. My ultimate goal was to perform a backup of a SharePoint WSS database on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server, with the intent of performing a database restore, to a new SharePoint 2010 Foundation Farm, so that I could perform a Database Attach …

For some reason lately, we’ ve been seeing a number of cases where User Profiles in Windows Server 2008 (seems to be mostly R2 but may be from SP1 of Windows Server 2008 as well) experiences cases where users cannot create local profiles. I’ve seen this on a dedicated Terminal Server and also on SharePoint …

This was a post by the office Robert. 🙂   Dell offers remote console connectivity using the SOL function of the BMC. This is a good tool but there is another tool that allows you to connect to the BMC and gather a lot of information as well as give you control over things like …

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 …

By Robert Dick today…   I had real fun with a DELL R300 server after a motherboard replacement.  Learned bunches but first a little background.     What originally went wrong?     The Dell R300 lost” the MAC addresses on the twin onboard NIC’s and we couldn’t get them back.  ESXi lost its networking …

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 …

I had a weird error today to address on a client SharePoint (WSS) Server. CAPI2 errors, indicating it couldn’t get trusted root cert’s from Microsoft for an application. In the end, it was a corrupt WSS search Index (go figure?) but digging into Windows Server 2008 Event Logging capabilities opened my eyes to some tools …