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Enterprise SharePoint 2010 Hosting, SharePoint Foundation 2010 Hosting, SharePoint Standard 2010 Hosting, Michigan
Mike Hamilton
pfont size="3"Enterprise SharePoint 2010 Hosting, SharePoint Foundation 2010 Hosting, SharePoint Standard 2010 Hosting, Michigan/font/p pfont size="3"Sclera, a Microsoft Hosted Services Provider Partner, is offering key Service Offerings around the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 stack./font/p pfont size="3"Specifically – if you’re looking for SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint Standard or Enterprise 2010 hosting provisions, checkout the Service Offerings from Sclera Hosting (a href="http:// [read].
Posted: Sat, May 15th '10 |
Creating CSR ndash; Certificate Request ndash; and Generating CSRrsquo;s for IIS7/IIS 7/ Internet Information Services 7
Mike Hamilton
pCreating CSR – Certificate Request – and Generating CSR’s for IIS7/IIS 7/ Internet Information Services 7/p pIn IIS7 – it is not intuitive – how to generate your CSR and then get your certificate issued – and apply that certificate to your site./p pIn IIS 6 – it was pretty straight forward once you have walked through the process – but IIS 7 is as different as night/day./p pIn IIS 7 – let’s replace the one for our SharePoint site. We had one already in place, but when we upg [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 14th '09 |
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 EXAMS / Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) V3 EXAMS
Mike Hamilton
pMicrosoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 EXAMS / Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) V3 EXAMS/p pADMINISTRATORS/p pI thought I had posted these once before. If you have 1 to 2 years of MOSS/WSS administrative experience, you should – at a minimum – have the two (2) following exams under your belt:/p ul lia href="http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?ID=70-631amp;locale=en-us" target="_blank"MCTS 70-631/a – Office SharePoint Server 2007, Configuring /li lia href="http://www [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 22nd '09 |
DotNetNuke 5.x ndash; What happen to Forums and FAQ and other Modules?
Mike Hamilton
pDotNetNuke 5.x – What happen to Forums and FAQ and other Modules?/p pIf you’re new to DNN 5.x and you’re very familiar with DNN 4.x or 3.x – you’ll notice some distinct changes, and not all of them are intuitive at all./p pTake the Forums and FAQ modules. Where are they?/p pIn DNN 5.x – Sign in as HOST./p pUnder Host—gt;(select) Extensions/p pScroll this all the way down and click on strongInstall Available Extensions/strong/p pNow you’ll see the list you’re probably more fami [read].
Posted: Sat, Aug 1st '09 |
Deleted User Login Control or Changed Login and Delete Page in DotNetNuke and cannot login
Mike Hamilton
pDeleted User Login Control or Changed Login and Delete Page in DotNetNuke and cannot login/p p /p pDuring a recent reconfiguration of a client’s site – we encountered this. /p pOur situation was this: We created a Sign-In page – and under Admin—gt;Settings – we set the login to use this page. We do this frequently when we stand up a site on a static IP that needs SSL./p pAt some point later, the Account Login control gets deleted – and regardless of why – it does – and our Sign [read].
Posted: Sat, Aug 1st '09 |
Microsoft Online Services ndash; Online is not always Online
Mike Hamilton
pMicrosoft Online Services – Online is not always Online/p pAs a software engineer for a small Microsoft Partner – I have had a blast working with the enterprise technologies – especially since the release of the beta bits of MOSS 2007./p pThe firm I work for is also a Microsoft Hosted Services Partner, and we host key technologies like Exchange, MOSS, Dynamics CRM, SQL Server and the latest craze – the Business Productivity Suite. The following is a blurb from the MSFT Help About BPS On [read].
Posted: Sun, Jun 21st '09 |
If it is to be, It is up to me – Michael J. Hamilton, Sr. – Pay it forward
Mike Hamilton
If it is to be, It is up to me – Michael J. Hamilton, Sr. – Pay it forward I was recently presented with the following statement: If you would change the world, then you must be the way you want the world to be (Gandhi)… On a beautiful sunny day – July 9th. – I was struck with the most extraordinary and unusual news I could possibly be struck with in my life: Mr. Hamilton, the biopsy and path reports, and CAT scans indicate that you actually have stage four (4) colorectal cancer… Mr. [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 1st '09 |
If it is to be, It is up to me ndash; Michael J. Hamilton, Sr. ndash; Pay it forward
Mike Hamilton
pIf it is to be, It is up to me – Michael J. Hamilton, Sr. – Pay it forward/p pI was recently presented with the following statement:/p pstrongemIf you would change the world, then you must be the way you want the world to be (Gandhi)…/em/strong/p pOn a beautiful sunny day – July 9th. – I was struck with the most extraordinary and unusual news I could possibly be struck with in my life: emMr. Hamilton, the biopsy and path reports, and CAT scans indicate that you actually have stage fou [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 1st '09 |
How to Disable Touchpad - Compaq 6735s Notebook w/Synaptics Touchpad - Windows Vista Ultimate x64
Mike Hamilton
pHow to Disable Touchpad - Compaq 6735s Notebook w/Synaptics Touchpad - Windows Vista Ultimate x64./p pLike many of us - when I pick up a new notebook - one of the first things I want to know how to do is to disable to onboard touch pad/buttons - when I plug in a wireless or wired external mouse./p pThe Compaq 6735s is a new, lightweight AMD dual core 64 bit system that handles 8GB of RAM and sports a 250GB SATA drive. I found a great deal on this through TigerDirect.../p pThe Compaq uses the Sy [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 16th '09 |
Microsoft Messenger and the art of Advertising - or Not. Anti-MSN Messenger, Shall we call it AMEN
Mike Hamilton
Over the past several weeks, myself included, a number of people have complained about the True Singles network advertising that consumes at least 50+% of the ad space in my MSN Messenger alone. When you get used to using MSN Messenger, it is not uncommon at all to have it open all the time; even during presentations and in Live Meetings. Of late however, I have found myself closing Messenger simply because of these ads - they're simply not appropriate for Corporate America - no matter how much [read].
Posted: Sun, Sep 7th '08 |
Cleaning up a Basic WSS (Windows SharePoint Services) v3 uninstall. Removing SQL Server embedded #SSEE database setup
Mike Hamilton
Cleaning up a Basic WSS (Windows SharePoint Services) v3 uninstall. Removing SQL Server embedded #SSEE database setup - this has proven a pain for a lot of our clients, as well as some of our developers that are not familiar with the goings on of WSS v3. and a Basic installation. INSTALLATION When you install WSS v3 - by default - and most of us love defaults - it blazes right through and does a BASIC installation/configuration. BASIC Under this installation - WSS creates NOT a well known doc [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 11th '08 |
FAST Search for SharePoint Server 2007 / Microsoft (MSFT) Acquires FAST Search
Mike Hamilton
FAST Search for SharePoint Server 2007 / Microsoft (MSFT) Acquires FAST Search The following links are provided to give you 1) more background on what this acquisition means, and 2) how to leverage it immediately in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/jan08/01-08FastSearchPR.mspx http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch/archive/2008/01/08/microsoft-announces-offer-to-acquire-fast-search-transfer.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/0 [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 24th '08 |
SharePoint Products and Technologies (PSCONFIG) - MOSS 2007 - Setup - The Account is invalid. The account must be a local account or global domain account.
Mike Hamilton
During a normal setup of a medium farm configuration for MOSS, when running the SharePoint Products and Technologies (PSCONFIG) wizard - I would receive the error, "The account is invalid. The account must be a local account or global domain account." Having deployed several dozen MOSS farms by now, I was perplexed after spending an hour checking and triple checking the service account (a least privileged domain-level account). All appeared to be just fine. The server I was installing on was a m [read].
Posted: Sat, May 24th '08 |
Access Denied - Folder Permissions as Administrator in Windows XP
Mike Hamilton
I recently setup a Windows XP Pro virtual machine w/Virtual PC 2008. So... I'm the only user account on the host - Administrator - and life should be grand. While working on a specific project for a client, I copied to my VM C: drive a copy of the solution from a network share at the client site. After some work - a couple days later - I needed to overwrite the local virtual machine copy with a refresh from the client site. I continued to get the Access Denied when trying to replace files. Okay. [read].
Posted: Mon, May 19th '08 |
It's not just MOSS - It's MOSStastic!
Mike Hamilton
Okay, so I've run that one in the ground so much the past couple years, you're tired of hearing it, right? WRONG. We've only just begun... Read the latest about Microsoft Office products here - MOSS is still in the early stages. For some really useful quick links - check out Mark Grimes' blog - and many thanks for the links Mark. I have received a host of pings regarding older postings on Directory Services, ASP.Net, BizTalk and more - and I will be posting some new source/solutions for Director [read].
Posted: Thu, May 15th '08 |
The 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' provider is not registered on the local machine - Running Vista x64 / Vista 64bit / 64bit
Mike Hamilton
I ran into this problem while trying to model some demo code for an ASP.Net application. I'm running Vista Enterprise x64 and Visual Studio x64 2008. When I tried to create a new web application in VS 2008 and browse it, I'd get the above error. The fix was to change the application pool to run in 32 bit. Right-Click on My Computer --> Manage Expand Services and Applications Select Internet Information Services, then local Application Pools under Connections. Right click on DefaultAppPoo [read].
Posted: Sun, Apr 13th '08 |
DNS Snafus - Recursion - and Hosting Sites
Mike Hamilton
My first hand at a lightweight training session. Click and play the video below... to review the 4 minute video and please let me know what you think. Was the video/audio stream okay? What things do we need to work on? Etc Etc Etc. [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 17th '08 |
Windows Mobile Device Center and sync problems with the Verizon / HTC VX6800 SmartPhone
Mike Hamilton
Windows Mobile Device Center and sync problems with the Verizon / HTC VX6800 SmartPhone I was able to sort out most of the setup on this neat new phone - but for the life of me I could not get Windows Mobile Device Center to detect it. The phone comes with Windows Mobile 6, and you would think all would go smooth insofar as the sync to your Windows Vista setup. Alas - there is an update I found that magically resolved the issue - it's Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 update - specifically for Sm [read].
Posted: Sat, Jan 12th '08 |
Browser Support for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007
Mike Hamilton
Browser Support for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 MSFT provides a decent review of the stated compatibility here. The feature specific list deserves special attention. [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 10th '08 |
How to change a user's password in Active Directory with Directory Services and C#
Mike Hamilton
How to change a user's password in Active Directory with Directory Services and C# Below is a code snippet that I hope will be helpful. There are some obvious assumptions made - that the user has experience coding in Directory Services and C# - let me know if you would like more info. private const string GETUSERID_QUERY = "(|(&(objectClass=user)(samAccountName={0}))(&(objectClass=contact)(displayName={0})))"; public bool ChangePassword(string rootDSE, string userName, stri [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 25th '07 |
Toolbars - Status bars - Estimated Copy Time - And Beyond
Mike Hamilton
Toolbars - status bars - estimated copy time - and beyond. Trust me, if you're writing an installation program, you want to pay particular attention to the status bar and the time remaining to finish the setup. For example, to copy roughly 15GB to an external USB 2.0 hard drive - that has about 300GB of free space - the following status bar is not a little disconcerting: I'll be the first to admit - Vista rocks! and it really does. But 125 years to finish copying 15GB? Dude, I honestly believe [read].
Posted: Sat, Dec 15th '07 |
Not all things Windows!
Mike Hamilton
Not all things Windows! - Indeed. I pulled out an older Sony notebook - PIII / 800Mhz - but it has a half gig of RAM in it and I thought it'd be a great one to leave around the house (translate - wireless) for anyone that needs a handy computer. I receive the MSDN DVD's - like many of us do - and the latest XP / SP2 disc I had was November 2007. Cool beans - I'll just boot that and load it. Well... You'll get a chuckle out of this one. This may be a November 2007 release (and here it's only Dece [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 14th '07 |
Where have you been - MOSStastic and Blogging for MOSS
Mike Hamilton
pI have been more than busy and apologize for not being as active in the blog community as I'd like to be./p
pAlso, I'm moving my blogs to a href="http://www.msftliveblogs.com/mhamilton"www.msftliveblogs.com/mhamilton/a - and hopefully I'll be able to keep up./p
pI'm still working on the MOSS and WSS sandbox demos for the Agency - which we hope to launch frist quarter' 08/ppa href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6cda6ad746d942b9a1110d0715a4fa12u=115893"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo [read].
Posted: Sat, Oct 6th '07 |
Adding a network printer to a Vista workstation / desktop / notebook - The specified print monitor is unknown.
Mike Hamilton
pAs a developer, one of the first things I did to my notebook (running Vista) is disable the UAC - I can't stand it - it keeps me from installing things like Virtual Server (which is not supported on Vista - but works perfectly fine), and is basically something I'm not worried about./p
pUntil I want to add a printer that is a network resource on my LAN. I get the error that the printer cannot be added - "The specified print monitor is unknown."/p
pVery informative - I know./p
pWell, believe it o [read].
Posted: Sun, Apr 29th '07 |
How to recover domain when the primary domain controller failes and there are member domain controllers
Mike Hamilton
pMany of us have probably dabbled in setting up our own domain and forest for development purposes. For me - a domain is a must - I have my development environment that is heavily used to model development projects for clents - and I have my family - me, my wife, and 7 children with their own computers./p
pSo, we have a fairly detailed setup on the home front - but the following applies to ANY environment in which your primary domain controller gives up the ghost - and you do not have an image b [read].
Posted: Sun, Apr 15th '07 |
Memories of Another Day - A long time forgotten
Mike Hamilton
PI remember the book by Harold Robbins very well, but it was when I was reading this book that I was introduced to country music and a life that I'll never forget - notwithstanding my career in technology./P
PLong before I was a coder I was a countruction worker by day and guitar player at night. Mostly I favored the folk songs of the '60's and '70's - but about the time I entered technology - I also ran into a group of guys that will forever be family./P
PIn my early to mid 20's I was picked to [read].
Posted: Sun, Apr 1st '07 |
System.Data.OracleClient vs. Oracle ODP - Not all things .Net
Mike Hamilton
PI recently had the not-so-great-or-fun pleasure of a pure .Net to Oracle application show-down :) And yes, I say that with some pun./P
PIn summary, keeping to proper form, I developed a DataProviderFactory that provided the following:/P
UL
LISQL Server native client API/LI
LIOracle/LI
LIBDC to SQL Server/LI
LIBDC to Oracle/LI/UL
PNow, BDC = Business Data Catalog - a new service provider native to MOSS (Micrsoft Office SharePoint Server) 2007. And trust me - the BDC ROCKS!!!/P
PBack to providers [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 6th '07 |
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 - Configuration / Setup - Login failed for user ''. The user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server configuration.
Mike Hamilton
PAfter installing MOSS and launching the SharePoint Configuration Wizard (psconfig.exe) - you are ready to begin the last leg of your MOSS installation/setup./P
PHere you provide the setup with the particualars for your server. Often you are installing MOSS with SQL Server being remote from MOSS, and you will be using a domain-level service account for the installation. The following is an example of the data you might enter during this step:/P
P(if the pic does not show - click A href="MOSS Con [read].
Posted: Sun, Feb 11th '07 |
InfoPath 2007 - MOSS 2007 - The form cannot be displayed because session state is not available.
Mike Hamilton
PWhether you are working with forms in custom workflows - or simply trying to publish a form to a form library in MOSS so you can collect information from the user, you may encounter this error./P
PInitially if you Google the error - you may find comments that state that you need to uncomment the following line in the web.config for the web application:/P
PSTRONGlt;!-- lt;add name="Session" type="System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule"/gt; --gt;/STRONG/P
PDO NOT uncomment this field. Many do [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 17th '07 |
Developing with Visual Studio on a Vista Workstation
Mike Hamilton
PAs Vista gains momentum, and many of us get our hands on it - we're quickly faced with a question that not many seem able to answer. More disconcerting - there is nothing solid out there to provide direction./P
PIf I am a ASP.Net developer - I want IIS available for my development pleasure. /P
PMore important, I will probably be using Visual Studio to crank out my applications./P
PThere is a lot of effort in the launch of Vista and the new Office products - but what about the development commun [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 12th '07 |
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