Making mass changes in Active Directory is not always an easy task. The ADUC GUI has limited ability to do mass changes. ADModify.net is a great tool, but also has limitations on what attributes it will update. Sometimes the last resort is using CSVDE and LDIF files. Unfortunately CSVDE won’t let you modify an existing […]

Office 2007 Features: In SPS/WSS 2003 custom behavior was accomplished by editing the XML files that define site definitions and their component elements. The MOSS analog is by way of Features, which are defined as logical collections of items and methods and are considered the modular building block for Office 2007. The server is itself […]

When VS.NET 2005 first came out, it had a new (and only) web project template. This new template was primarily designed for two purposes. 1) It was designed to make it easier for the individual developer who builds one or two sites. 2) It was designed to make it easier to bring in an existing […]

PowerShell Resources I’ve spent a few weekends trying to get up to speed on PowerShell and I’ve found a few resources that have been useful. The ‘Official’ Microsoft documentation is available as a downloaded Word document here. I have found Guy Thomas’s Computer Performance site when looking for Active Directory scripts last year. He has […]

I have client that has about 2500 address lists and not all of them could be viewed while in Outlook 2003 Cache Mode. No matter what I tried, I was only able to view about 1000 items in the address list, within the Global Address Book while in cache mode. When your Outlook 2003 client […]

Whew! TechED 2006 is finally over, but I’m not as bushed as I have been in past years. For those of you that haven’t been to TechED in the past, it is quite an experience. Nearly 12,000 geeks all in once place with a ton of Microsoft and partner booths all over the place. There […]

Sometimes in large organizations it is desirable to delegate the management of DNS to administrators other than full domain admins. Microsoft provides a group called DNSAdmins, however it does not have full control of all aspects of the DNS service. For instance, they can not create or delete AD integrated zones. You would think this […]

If you are scratching your head wondering why you are still getting access denied when you delegate full access to a user account at the top of an Exchange organization for administration purposes or 3rd party applications (migration tools, etc). Troubleshooting Step 1Try running the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer against the problem organization and perform […]

A Windows SharePoint Services Site is a set of web sites on a virtual server that have the same owner and share administration settings. Each site collection contains a top-level Web site and can contain one or more subsites. There are several ‘roles’ that have different levels of control over sites at different levels. They […]

Most of us are typically connecting to one or many different client networks from various locations throughout the day, while others (present company included) may be logged into the same VPN tunnel day after day after day. The default behavior when using a built-in Windows XP Virtual Private Network connection (as well as on some […]

I’m reading through the latest beta documentation for the next version of SharePoint or MOSS. Microsoft has made several additions to the number of databases used by SharePoint 2007. The new databases include: Search Shared Services Provider 4 Project Server databases It appears that Search indexes are moving from the front-end server to the database […]

I found this great article on Project estimation (http://www.christopherhawkins.com/06-01-2004.htm#11) and project scheduling (http://www.christopherhawkins.com/). Hits the nail right on the head!