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We ran into this little gem today at a client site (running SBS 2008) – thanks for the detail Avi. The client called, explaining how their Outlook clients were unable to connect to the server (Outlook stated it was ‘Trying to connect’ in the bottom right hand). Upon closer inspection of the server, all services …

I ran into this the other day. A server (a virtual machine or VM to be exact) was trying to apply some new Security Patches on boot but it kept saying Applying updates, 3 of 3, 0% complete“.  This went on for an hour (and who knows how much longer it would have gone, had …

Ok, it’s a web world now, but this old tip still crops up enough to warrant sharing.   If you want to change an icon on your desktop to something sexier, you have a number of choices. You can of course download a new one (thanks Steve, for pointing out www.iconfinder.net, which has some really …

This is a great resource and I know I’ll have trouble finding it later, so I’m bookmarking it here on my blog: http://blog-sharepoint.blogspot.com/2009/05/data-view-conditional-formatting-using.html   In particular, it was useful today for me, to figure out how to show some differing icons in dataview webparts based on today’s data plus the next 7 days, etc. Some …

This is an old post that I’m refreshing as I noticed it was appearing in search results (but on my old blog, I got TONNES of people saying this helped them, so I’m hoping to do that again by bumping this to the top…)   Ok, this one took a while to sort out and …

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, …

Here is an interesting one but quite repeatable… I’ve run into this situation now in two totally different Exchange 2007 environments (the source). While we are able to successfully deliver messages to most customer domains, in these two instances, one was a domain in BC and the other was in Argentina. The Problem For whatever …

I ran into an issue tonight with a client’s WSS install where NOBODY was a Site Collection Administrator. Sure enough, the accounts were listed there (and I even validated/tried Farm Administrators, modifying in Central Admin, etc.). My account was there, but no matter what I did, I didn’t have the permissions I required – I …

Darren turned me on to this site today. Pretty cool, easy to use and easy to determine how much UPS plans to rip me off when a vendor insists on using them for providing shipping to Canada (sometimes their shipping/duty fees are more than the item being shipped for crying out loud – I don’t …

Lots of info out there seems to differ, so this is what worked for me, for both scenarios (MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0). One thing for sure, since about September 2007, there is a lot of FUD.   MOSS 2007 – PDF Support (icon and search) Configure Search To Work   1. Stop the IIS …