Brad Smith's blog
Search, SharePoint, Stuff (SSS)
Poor man’s SharePoint warm-up script
It’s simple, it’s a little bit manual, but it works well. warmup.cmd stsadm pages.html pages.html...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 02/01/2009
SharePoint uninstall - "the product installation has been corrupted, run setup from original source"
"the product installation has been corrupted, run setup from original source" See this...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 01/29/2009
Don’t recycle the Application Pool for Central Admin site for faster load times
The default app pool setting for the SharePoint Central Admin site is to recycle at a set time each...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 01/29/2009
How to uninstall Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 if you accidently deleted IIS first
So you’ve gone to uninstall SharePoint and you find that someone has removed IIS first. You go to...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 01/23/2009
Scripted provisioning of multiple Central Admin web applications
After reading some other posts about setting up the SharePoint Central Admin Web Application on...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 01/22/2009
The secrets of SQL Syntax Queries for Relevant Results in MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search
I've been handing out this blog post URL (below) so much lately that I thought I'd share it here....
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 11/26/2007
SharePoint Search site
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 11/13/2007
Visual Studio 2008 ("Orcas") and .NET 3.5
Daniel Moth has a bunch of great posts on Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Here are two great entry...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 08/07/2007
Orcas Beta 2 Download URLs
https://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/07/26/orcas-beta-2-download-urls.aspx Great post with all...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 08/07/2007
Mastering PowerShell in your lunch break -- Awesome!!
https://powershelllive.com/blogs/lunch/default.aspx Highly, highly recommended.
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 07/04/2007
Great MOSS 2007 Search Blog
https://blogs.msdn.com/miketag/ Enough said.
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 05/20/2007
Krzysztof Cwalina on Framework Design
Krzysztof has been recorded for MS Research and gives an excellent presentation on framework design....
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 05/08/2007
Invitation to the inaugural Canberra VSTS user group - Jan 24th
I’d like to make you aware of the new Canberra Visual Studio Team System user group! The purpose of...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 01/10/2007
New Web Service Software Factory released on msdn
The second version of the Service Factory (that helps build both ASP.NET and WCF services) has been...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 01/09/2007
Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Love the dual core perf :) Snippet from...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 12/19/2006
Canberra Visual Studio Team System user group is ready for launch!
Well, Nils announced it first ... Canberra now has it's very own Visual Studio Team System user...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 12/08/2006
Claiming my Technorati blog
Technorati Profile I always do as I'm told (just don't verify that please....). So here I am...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 12/06/2006
Microsoft Xml Notepad
I've been using this for a few weeks. So instead of me just emailing the link around to everyone...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 12/06/2006
Software Engineering with VSTS - great book
Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (Microsoft .NET Development...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 12/06/2006
Visual Studio 2005 Team System Basics Training
Brief Description(200-level)A complete, self-paced training course with a VPC image containing Team...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 11/22/2006
Visual Studio "Orcas" October CTP
I've been a bit slow with putting this link up ... but I keep emailing it around, so here it is....
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 11/22/2006
Writing Secure Code (Managed Code)
Just a quick one... I've been asked for a good place to start when you're interested in writing...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 11/09/2006
How complex is your code? Find out with nDepend!
I've been asked to look at the code of a project and give an assessment on the complexity of it. So,...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 11/06/2006
I know it's against industry best practice but...
You know you're in for an interesting conversation when the first sentence you hear starts with "I...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 10/29/2006
New HP Compaq nc8430
Finally.... my new laptop should arrive tomorrow! :) Hopefully it will be rebuilt and ready for a...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 10/24/2006
Arranged by: Conversation
I get a reasonable amount of email each day. Not a lot, about a hundred or two each day (sometimes a...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 10/20/2006
Disassemble the .NET framework to see what a method does
Yesterday I was asked if a certain method in the .NET framework returns a null. Too easy. Downloaded...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 10/19/2006
Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP is ready!
Today we are making the English version available as a free download. Other languages will be...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 10/19/2006
Anglican Church’s first internet evangelist
David Horne is set to become the Anglican Church’s first internet evangelist. Evangelists :) Read...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 10/18/2006
David Suzuki
Wow! Last night I saw a talk from David Suzuki. It wasn't his normal environmental speach... it was...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 10/17/2006
Week off, iRiver Clix, and HDD Recorder
Well ... I'm back from my week off. While I was away I got a year older, gained a lawn mower, iRiver...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 10/15/2006
Dad's Birthday Present: iRiver Clix
I just bought my Dad an iRiver Clix for his birthday. I've been waiting to buy it for a few weeks......
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 10/06/2006
How to download Wikipedia
So you're looking for some dummy data? Well how about downloading the wikipedia???!! There are over...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 10/05/2006
What is Infrastructure Optimization (IO)???
In my previous post I mentioned that I found the Infrastructure Optimization blog. A few people have...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 10/05/2006
Infrastructure Optimization blog
Just found their blog at https://blogs.technet.com/io/default.aspx The first line of the most recent...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 10/04/2006
Virtual PC for VSTS and TFS on MSDN Subscription Download site
Wow ... that's a long blog title, but it sums up this post nicely! :) There is a VPC (Virtual PC)...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 10/04/2006
What to blog??
I’ve been trying to figure out what to blog. Like everyone else in the world I can’t blog about...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 10/04/2006
Australian TFS mailing list
I actually found out about (and joined) Grant Holliday's new TFS mailing list a while ago, but I...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 10/03/2006
Enterprise Search Architecture for MOSS 2007 (Beta)
I've been chatting with a few guys I used to work with about the Enterprise Search capabilities of...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 10/03/2006
first post
Hello and welcome! I am a consultant with the Microsoft Services team in Canberra, Australia. I was...
Author: bradsmith007 Date: 10/03/2006