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Windows 7 RC Expiring Monday

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If you are still running Windows 7 RC (like me), just remember the RC expires on Monday. I’ve been running a backup on my install before I install my black edition from my windows 7 house party. The backup has been running for about 10 hours and its only 40% done! Not sure [...]

Outlook Gets Social with LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace

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We are testing Office 2010 at work. I should have it by the end of next week along with windows 7. I’m currently running Office XP with outlook 2003. I was using Xobni, but it seem to eat up RAM and caused outlook to have issues closing. The social features of xobni where [...]

Sharepoint 2010 continued

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I got SharePoint 2010 installed in a 3 tier architecture (1 web,1 app, 1 db)
I’m going to start a series of post on the issues I encounter, and the solutions I find for them.
I found the Microsoft TechNet forums for the SharePoint 2010 beta. I started posting some questions there.
You can also find [...]

Sharepoint 2010 videos

Here’s a few videos from TechNet about SharePoint 2010
Virtualization of SharePoint 2010 Farm Architecture

Overview and What’s New for SharePoint 2010 IT Pros

I successfully got SharePoint 2010 installed yesterday. I’ll write up my experiences on the install process soon.
Right now I’m trying to get the [...]

Installing SharePoint 2010

This year at work the new office wave 14 suite is going to be a huge project and the key piece of it will be SharePoint 2010. I downloaded the beta and using the following two sites started my install today.
http://sharepoint2007tips.com/sharepoint2010book.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485%28office.14%29.aspx
We’ll be running in a three tier architecture starting with a single server in [...]

Get AD Schema info from PowerShell

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I was looking for a way to collect user information with Get-QADUser from other domains. (I’m thinking I need to use the searchscope option but haven’t found the syntax yet) and ran into this little gem
Get-QADRootDSE | Format-List *
 
The output will give you the DC Function level,the domain function level and the Forest [...]

windows 2008 and dotNET framework

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Just installed out first Windows 2008 R2 Server. When we tried to install SQL 2008 it needed .NET framework 3.5, but said that we had to install it via server roles. I found this powershell command to install the .NET Framework
 
servermanagercmd -i NET-Framework-Core
 
I’ve written (pieced together) a few general powershell commands. Likes like [...]

Google now with Twitter

I just noticed today that when I search on Google it includes twitter results also. Checkout this screenshot from when I searched for filehippo

I’ll have to give it some time before I decide if I like how google has integrated twitter. I’ve added the Firefox search provider for Topsy that way I can search [...]

Upgrading AD Domains to Windows Server 2008 R2 AD DS Domains

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We still have win 2000 DCs and some 2003. One of my projects for 2010 will be to remove all 2000 DCs and get ready for 2008 DC deployment late 2010 or early 2011. This guide will be a great read for that project.
Upgrading your network operating system requires minimal network configuration and [...]

Three weeks with Uverse

We got Uverse installed on October 30th. The install went well, it would have been done in about two hours, except the lines outside were not setup correctly.
We (yes the install tech hung around) had to wait about 1 1/2 hours for a line tech to show up and correct the issue.
The installer used [...]

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