First, you need to download the Adobe PDF IFilter 6.0, which you can find at this URL. You should also get hold of a suitable Icon to use with PDFs, so that when they are listed in a document library they are easily recognisable. There is a 17 x 17 one available on the Adobe [...]
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Configure Windows SharePoint Services Search Service Settings
June 24th, 2010
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By default, the search service is disabled in WSS 3.0. In order to enable it, goto your SharePoint Central Administration page and under the Operations tab, goto the “Services on the Server” list and click on WSS Search. Service Account – You cannot use any built in accounts when specifiying the Service Account, however you [...]
ASP.NET 2.0 not registered in IIS
June 23rd, 2010
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When ASP.NET is installed on your computer but not registered in your IIS you probably installed .Net before IIS. This is easily repaired with the following command “%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\version\aspnet_regiis.exe” -i
VirtualCenter Passthrough Authentication
March 26th, 2010
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Tired of login in into the Virtual Center Client? Try this… A very useful, yet very undocumented feature of the Virtual Infrastructure Client is that it can be configured to automatically pass your Active Directory credentials without you typing them in. To use: create a shortcut to the Virtual Infrastructure Client, then right-click on it [...]
Force the update detection from Automatic Update Client
March 22nd, 2010
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When deploying a new Windows XP installation your first task is installing the countless Windows updates. When you wait for Windows XP to check for updates you’ll need a lot of time. To accelerate this process just run the following batch file. @echo on net stop wuauserv REG DELETE “HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update” /v LastWaitTimeout /f REG [...]
Backup and Restore SharePoint Services 3.0 sites
March 22nd, 2010
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I tried to make a copy of one of our SharePoint sites. It took some help to figure out how to this. So for the future, lets put it here. The thing you should check are the version numbers of the original and target SharePoint servers are the same. They MUST be the same. In [...]
Manually uninstall Windows Internal Database
March 10th, 2010
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When you deploy Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a single-server configuration by using the Basic installation option, the Setup program automatically installs and configures Windows Internal Database. However, an entry for Windows Internal Database is not created in the Add or Remove Programs tool. If you remove Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, the Setup program does [...]
Copy a directory but only include specific files (extension)
March 9th, 2010
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ROBOCOPY C:\Source D:\Destination *.zip *.txt /E /E = copy subdirectories, including empty ones /S = copy subdirectories, excluding empty ones More information about robocopy, click here
Remove empty folders and subfolders
March 9th, 2010
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This little batch file scans the directory that was provided as a parameter and all its sub-directories for empty folders and deletes them, including the provided folder itself, if it is empty as well (or became empty after all empty sub-folders were removed). RemoveEmptySubFolders.bat @echo off set Folder=”%~1″ if %Folder%==”” @echo Syntax RemoveEmptySubFolders Folder&goto :EOF [...]
Windows XP Control Panel shortcuts
March 9th, 2010
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Shortcuts Access.cpl Accessibility properties Appwiz.cpl Add/Remove Programs properties Desk.cpl Display properties Hdwwiz.cpl Add Hardware properties Inetcpl.cpl Internet properties Intl.cpl Regional Settings properties Irprops.cpl Infrared Port properties (located in C:\Windows\Driver cache\I386\Driver.cab until you install an infrared device) Joy.cpl Joystick properties Main.cpl Mouse properties Mmsys.cpl Multimedia properties Ncpa.cpl Network Connections properties Nusrmgr.cpl User Accounts properties Nwc.cpl Gateway [...]
