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Performance Monitor, Typeperf and PAL

Chad — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:30:00 GMT

To dump all of the performance counter instances on a system: Typeperf.exe -qx > c:\perfcounters.txt To collect the perfomance data on all of the counter instances on a system for 30 minutes collecting data every 15 seconds to standard Perfomance Monitor format: Typeperf.exe -f BIN -cf c: ... (More)

Mount VHD in 1 click in Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2

Chad — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:01:00 GMT

Quick post on this tool. Makes it much easier to mount a VHD than Computer Management->Disk Management. http://www.jmedved.com/default.aspx?page=vhdattach&rendering=xhtml

SharePoint Keyword Terms; AKA Best Bets

Chad — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:22:00 GMT

Since Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Search Server 2008 best bets are search related you would think that they are Shared Service Provider specific, but this is not the way to think about them. Yes, the actual best bets that are defined in a SharePoint site collection are stored in the SSP databa ... (More)

SharePoint Programming Insights

Chad — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:35:00 GMT

The SPWeb.SiteUsers method run the following stored procedures in SQL: proc_GetTpWebMetaDataAndListMetaData proc_SecListAllSiteMembers The SPWeb.AllUsers method run the following stored procedures in SQL: proc_GetTpWebMetaDataAndListMetaData proc_SecListAllWebMem ... (More)

How to add a shortcut (.lnk) file to your Visual Studio setup project

Chad — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:18:00 GMT

Adding a shortcut is not as easy as you would expect in a Visual Studio setup project. To add a shortcut to the application's start menu you have to have a file already to the content. The only thing is that you cannot add a .lnk file to the setup project. I found the following KB article to add t ... (More)

Stop reading this post and backup your data!

Chad — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:01:00 GMT

No, I mean it, really; I'll wait right here. As you can imagine I was bitten by my own carelessness. No disaster recovery plan. This site was affected as was some of my source code and another website. Almost 5 months worth of data lost. The only thing that saved me was that I happened to have my s ... (More)

How can my My Site and My Links links break Let me count the ways

Chad — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:38:00 GMT

I just took a lot of time tracking down all of the ways that the "My Site" and "My Links" Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 links can be missing from the top right-hand side of MOSS sites.Here is a list of the different ways the links can go missing and the solutions to g ... (More)

Manage SharePoint Forms Based Authentication (FBA) Users and Roles

Chad — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:27:00 GMT

You have SharePoint Forms Based Authentication setup using a SQL profile source. Based on some of the following articles. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952170 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998317.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb975136.aspx & http://technet.mi ... (More)

SharePoint, Open Office Integration

Chad — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:26:00 GMT

Just because you use Open Office doesn't mean you can't also use SharePoint also. This Open Office extension will let you save to WebDav. Which means you can save to a SharePoint document library. http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/ooo2gd

More information on SharePoint Usage Analysis

Chad — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:25:00 GMT

In a previous post I listed SQL code that would list the GUIDs of SharePoint web applications. This is useful when tracking down Usage Analysis issues so you can easily match the folder GUIDs with the rows returned from the SQL query. Well, hopefully now that there is a new update with fixes for ... (More)