Scenario: It was a late, late night for you last night. You were out with you’re friends helping plan your upcoming and always fun annual houseboat vacation to Dale Hollow lake in Tennessee. (The same lake that, on one hand has a habit of eating your expensive sunglasses, but on the other hand, has provided [...]
One of the nice little utilities that Microsoft has created for us is the User State Migration Tool. USMT allows administrators to capture the data from end users machines and store the data on a file share on the network (alternatively it can be stored on a locally attached drive) the data can then be [...]
Let’s say you are in SharePoint Designer 2007 and want to create a new form for adding an event to a calendar, but you want to change labels or add descriptive text or any other customizations to that form. You also want to keep the functionality of the Recurring event and All-Day Event options. Well, think again. A huge glaring bug [...]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working with SMO to implement some maintenance routines across my clients. Because of the nature of most of my clients, Powershell is almost always the answer. I have been trying to simplify the coding of some of these scripts by using Add-Member. I had some issues with the [...]
I wish I could say that this was a simple task, but as I dove into SMO and some of its limitations, I soon discovered this would more difficult than I had imagined. I’m happy to share some background and some of the trials I had to overcome so that you might avoid having to [...]
Have you ever been working inside a Virtual Machine inside of VMware using the vSphere Client and needed to copy/paste out of the VM and found you could not? Starting with vSphere 4.1, this feature is disabled by default for security reasons. However it can easily be enabled by a few quick settings. Of course [...]
I’ve been working a lot lately with SMO and the differences between the various versions between SQL 2005, 2008, and 2012. Through this process, I’ve come to understand why “[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName” is not a good option in PowerShell. Not only is it obsolete, it doesn’t allow you to choose which version of the SMO library you [...]