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I’m often shuttling around content that a client wanted in a new location and sometimes, Saving a SharePoint list as a template (with content) fits the bill nicely. But with a (default) 10MB limit, this can be quite obtrusive. Thankfully, this can be modified (up to a maximum of 500MB) with the following syntax (note …

Considering Rogers is going to start charging me (us) for SMS Text messages inbound, and considering they do a really lousy job of reducing the amount of text spam I get, I took it upon myself to find a reference of Rogers text commands that can be used to block incoming garbage, so here’s the …

I’ve run into this enough times lately to warrant creating a visual walk-through of the fix. There is a KB article, if you like lots of words – but as always, a picture is worth a 1000 sandwiches…   KB Reference: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923977   The Error (Event ID 53258) MS DTC could not correctly process a …

If you have a massive, giant, huge, big (throwing the words in there, for folks on Google to find this post 🙂 SQL ERRORLOG file, you will want to do TWO things (don’t just perform step #2, it will likely be back!) SQL ERRORLOG growth, when it starts, will grow quickly. I’ve seen it fill …

Ok, there can be a number of reasons for your search to break, but due to a number of recent situations and patches, here’s a new one cropping up quite a bit lately. I’m outlining the symptoms I ran into tonight (your situation may differ).   The Issue   Search is busted. All of a …

The Virtualized Windows XP Mode Add-On (Windows XP Mode (XPM) will be included. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132119&intsrc=news_ts_head Basically, they are including a free licensed copy of Windows XP SP3 within Windows 7, that will run as a virtual machine and the applications running in this ‘compatibility space’ will be ‘published’ to the desktop of the host (Windows 7) …

Cool, this will be handy to have ‘around the house’, for analyzing user patterns, etc. The Microsoft Exchange Server User Monitor (EXMON) enables system administrators to view and evaluate individual users’ usage and experience with Microsoft Exchange Server. Using ExMon, administrators can view the following: IP addresses used by clients Microsoft Office Outlook® versions and …

Someone asked this on Experts Exchange today, so I posted my 2 bits. As someone who daily runs into a ‘gosh, that’s weird or new’ in technology, I find this simple but effective technical troubleshooting/research technique very useful. As simple as my comments might be, if you aren’t doing this ‘method’ when googling/investigating errors, etc. …

Well, gotta love the power of smart friends. I’m more of an SMB/SharePoint Infrastructure guy, however, I do some SharePoint Development (not really in .NET, think of me as the go between, in Designer). Anyways, I needed to know how to create a ‘back’ button on a Specialized SharePoint site that was acting as a …

Someone asked me this tonight, and sure enough, maybe this post will help someone at 3am (when this stuff usually goes down), where they have a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) setup, have a catastrophic failure and can’t recover from backups, but instead need to find stuff from all that is left on the disk …