Of all days in the week, on Sunday [August 21, 2011] I decided to tease my SharePoint 2010 development environment! I decided to change all the SharePoint 2010 Service Account(s)password. Thank you Microsoft for introducing the managed accounts, else I would be clicking away for a long time, having to go through each application pool [...]
This is a continuation of the series Re Imaging SharePoint VMs on the fly. Now that you have captured your bootable virtual hard drive that was prepared for SharePoint Installation, you can apply that to another active partition or a virtual hard drive and then install whichever flavour of SharePoint you please! As seen in [...]
Now that SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 is out… I wanted to share one of the features that is going to be much appreciated by SharePoint Administrators and Site Collection Administrators. No more attaching backups of your content database and powershell to restore the deleted SharePoint site!
This is a continuation of the series Re Imaging SharePoint VMs on the fly. Once you have finished with the task of preparing the virtual machine, it’s time to create a Windows Image File (WIM) for re-use at a later stage. Navigate to the folder where you have imagex.exe Run this command
This is continuation of the blog post series on Reimaging SharePoint VMs on the fly. Quick recap: In the earlier post, we have created a vhd and enabled the vhd to be bootable. In this post, I am now logged into the vhd and ready to prepare my virtual machine for installing SharePoint 2010.
This is one feature you are likely to disable sooner or later. Very recently I saw the first template pop up in SharePoint when you click on More Options to create content. Back in the days when SharePoint 2010 was in beta and I happened to be at the Ignite Training in Bangalore, I had [...]
Yes, it’s coming! If you haven’t heard, read then here is the repeat of the buzz… SharePoint Service Pack 1 is expected to be released in late June, 2011! I am interested in this service pack more then ever, for a reason – self service recovery of site collections and sites! As a site collection [...]