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In a recent migration project I needed to move nearly 2TB of mailbox data between Exchange 2003 servers in the same organization, to the tune of 100-200GB per day. The first couple days went fine, with excellent performance, but as more mailboxes were moved to the target server and mail delivery processes and user connections […]

There are a handful of tools and scripted solutions floating around for resolving SIDs to user accounts and the reverse, but here’s a handy way to do this by simply using Active Directory Users and Computers. The first time you perform this for a domain it will be necessary to identify the RID and GUID […]

Good news, the official version of MOSS SP1 has been released. Previously you had to slipstream your own version of MOSS SP1 which will still work but if you want the packaged version from Microsoft you can click here for the 32 bit version and here for the 64 bit version.

Here are the highlights from days three and four of the SharePoint Conference. Heather Solomon gave a two part session on best practices for styling and branding SharePoint sites. Most of what she went through were techniques that PointBridge has already employed successfully on our WWW and blogs sites as well as client sites such […]

Yesterday while deploying files to the GAC I got the following error; Assembly Cache Viewer – Install failed. I have deployed files to the GAC many times in the past and have never seen this error. Immediately I figured this had something to do with Windows Server 2008. I tired a number of fixes but […]

Just follow the screen shots. I will provide additional information where needed. Figure 1: Select Install Monitoring Server. Figure 2: Of course, accept the terms if and only if you agree to them. Select Next. Figure 3: Select Next. Figure 4: Select Install. Figure 5: Select Finish. Figure 6: Select Next. Figure 7: Select Next. […]

I’ve been running a release candidate version (build 6001) of Vista Service Pack 1 for a few weeks now and by far the biggest advantages have been ‘performance’ related. What’s funny is there were a slew of performance-related pre-SP1 hotfixes released for Vista in the past year, none of which had resolved any of my […]

When populating dimension table records, I use Integer Identity columns to generate meaningless surrogate primary keys. I usually also create default “catch-all” records for “No Value Specified” or “Invalid Value Specified” In other words let’s say my source data for a Gender Dimension looks like this: Male Female <null> Male 3 I would want to […]

Last year I was plagued with an issues on many SharePoint Servers I work on, in which when I expanded IIS I received a message that The path specified cannot be used at this time. I even blogged a workaround for this error. Well, after working with PSS for a number of months they released […]

I’ve had this pop up twice on me now, so I’m thinking that it’s worth blogging about… When you create a dialplan in Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging, don’t use a dot or space (e.g. "dialplan1.exum" or "Chicago Dial Plan for UM Users") While spaces or dots will work just fine for normal UM usage, you […]

Last night I deployed Microsoft’s End-user Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training. They have two editions, a Standalone and a Portal Edition, I installed the Portal Edition on a test MOSS Server. After some review last night and today I am quite impressed by this product. The product itself was pretty straightforward to install, especially if […]

Just a quick blog entry here; it seems like every time I need to send another external party the link to download the LM2007 installation, I can never find it. Yes, the link itself is in the invitation email (although somewhat difficult to find) but those aren’t always handy when trying to create an impromptu […]