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How to Get DB Server Information from the Command Line

Life is simple in SharePoint development environments. You typically have administrative access to...

Author: JIMMIE THOMPSON Date: 08/14/2012

Schedule a Full User Profile Import

It may be desirable to perform full profile imports on a regular schedule, possibly once a month or...

Author: JIMMIE THOMPSON Date: 08/11/2012

Kerberos Access Denied for Domain Local Groups

We recently encountered a situation where users were denied access to site collections in SharePoint...

Author: JIMMIE THOMPSON Date: 08/04/2012

This question was recently asked: Where do I start the Office Web Applications in a farm with...

Author: JIMMIE THOMPSON Date: 08/04/2012

My Site Default Quota Template

We recently encountered a subtle issue setting the quota used when creating My Sites; that is, My...

Author: JIMMIE THOMPSON Date: 07/22/2012

Service Application Load Balancing Discoveries

Most SharePoint administrators know that Service Applications; for example Managed Metadata Service...

Author: JIMMIE THOMPSON Date: 07/15/2012

Publishing Service Applications with PowerShell

Publishing Service Applications with PowerShell While scripting the deployment of a multiple farm...

Author: JIMMIE THOMPSON Date: 07/04/2012

Secure Store Service Access Denied

Secure Store Service Access Denied We recently ran into an Access Denied problem using the Secure...

Author: JIMMIE THOMPSON Date: 07/04/2012

SharePoint Developer Environment Security Primer

SharePoint Developer Environment Security Primer Confusion often surrounds what privileges must be...

Author: JIMMIE THOMPSON Date: 06/10/2012

SPDiag Error Creating a Snapshot

SPDiag Error Creating a Snapshot Many people see error messages when attempting to create an SPDiag...

Author: JIMMIE THOMPSON Date: 05/19/2012

SPDiag Access Denied Creating a New Project

SPDiag Access Denied Creating a New Project A problem sometimes occurs when creating a new project...

Author: JIMMIE THOMPSON Date: 05/13/2012

The Distinguished Name Contains Invalid Syntax

The Distinguished Name Contains Invalid Syntax I discovered that a Network Monitor trace is your...

Author: JIMMIE THOMPSON Date: 10/03/2010

SharePoint Error–Issuer of the Token is not a Trusted Issuer

While experimenting with Windows Identity Foundation and SharePoint 2010, I was attempting to...

Author: JIMMIE THOMPSON Date: 09/19/2010

Windows Identity Foundation Samples–HTTP Watch Is Your Friend

Continuing my prior post on working with the WIF samples, the WIF samples that come with the SDK, or...

Author: JIMMIE THOMPSON Date: 09/03/2010

Windows Identity Foundation Samples–Trace is Your Friend

The WIF samples that come with the SDK, or the labs in the WIF training kit are great learning...

Author: JIMMIE THOMPSON Date: 09/02/2010

SQL Azure DSINIT Error–Failed to Create Database

I am just starting to get up-to-speed on Azure and claims authentication. Working through the WIF...

Author: JIMMIE THOMPSON Date: 08/22/2010

Certificate Error Upgrading to SharePoint 2010

Technorati Tags: SharePoint,Upgrade I was recently upgrading a MOSS 2007 SSP database, the profile...

Author: JIMMIE THOMPSON Date: 08/08/2010

IIS Log File Data Mining with Log Parser

IIS Log File Data Mining Log Parser, now in version 2.2. LogParser can query log files in a...

Author: JIMMIE THOMPSON Date: 08/07/2010

ULS Log File Data Mining with Log Parser

ULS Log File Data Mining Finding meaningful information in SharePoint ULS logs is frustrating. It...

Author: JIMMIE THOMPSON Date: 08/07/2010