Of Ones and Zeros

Free Expression Encoder 3 For Up To 10 Minutes

Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by bryan.

Microsoft has released a free version of Expression Encoder which can be used to create screencasts up to 10 minutes in length!  You can include video and audio with the screen cast recording.  I played with this a bit this week and the performance and quality of results are very impressive.  Download it here.

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Truncating Transaction Logs in SQL 2008

Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 by bryan.

One of my clients is beginning to migrate to SQL 2008 for their SharePoint farms.  In the past, we have used scripts to truncate the transaction logs and shrink the DBs in the non-production environments using the “BACKUP LOG [dbname] WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY” command.  As you may be aware, the “WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY” option has been deprecated [...]

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User Profile Import Stuck

Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by bryan.

A client had an issue today with user profile imports being “stuck”.  In one instance (the production instance) the profile import was stuck actually performing the import, in the non-production instance it was stuck on “Enumerating”.  Found a great article by Henrik Andersson to fix the issue.  Here is what he posted as the fix:
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Migrating Subsites to New Site Collections

Posted on 23. Sep, 2009 by bryan.

I am currently working on a project to split up a single site collection to multiple site collections.  There are multiple reasons for doing so, and there are useful blog posts dedicated to the topic of whether to use multiple site collections or subsites.  In this instance, the primary driver for using multiple site collections [...]

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“Object reference not set to an instance of an object” executing STSADM commands

Posted on 24. Aug, 2009 by bryan.

If you are attempting to execute STSADM commands, and are receiving the ominous “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” error, make sure that the user account that are using to execute STSADM has permissions to the SQL database.  I ran into an issue today where the domain account had permissions to [...]

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Promising SharePoint projects on CodePlex

Posted on 18. Jun, 2009 by bryan.

I spent some time on CodePlex today researching the latest open-source SharePoint projects.  I probably haven’t peeked through CodePlex in the past 6 months, and I was very encouraged by the quantity of projects out there.  Following are the ones of particular interest to me:
SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard
http://spdeploymentwizard.codeplex.com/
The SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard is a tool [...]

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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Installed on Windows 7 RC

Posted on 27. May, 2009 by bryan.

Today I installed Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 1 on the Windows 7 RC running in VMWare Workstation 6.5.  Special thanks to Miha Markič for this tip regarding disabling 3D graphics acceleration in VMWare.  This is what the top bar of Visual Studio looked like before that change:

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Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Attention: Important Information on Service Pack 2

Posted on 26. May, 2009 by bryan.

Microsoft’s SharePoint team has announced that there is a bug in Service Pack 2 for MOSS that will trigger SharePoint to believe it is a trial instance of the product.  A workaround is supplied by Microsoft:
We are working to release a hotfix to automatically fix this issue. A manual work-around is currently available and involves [...]

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Blog has been updated!

Posted on 06. May, 2009 by bryan.

This blog was in desperate need of an update, aesthetically and infrastructure related. If memory serves, coming into yesterday Of Ones and Zeros was running on Wordpress 2.3, and hadn’t received any TLC so to speak in the past 18 months. Initially I was planning to move this blog over to the excellent Sitefinity platform [...]

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SharePoint SP2 is RTW

Posted on 28. Apr, 2009 by bryan.

SharePoint SP2 is Release to World (RTW) as of today.  Some of the highlights from the SharePoint team blog:
Benefits
Customers can be benefited from the following enhancements with Service Pack 2.

Performance and Availability Improvements

Service Pack 2 includes many fixes and enhancements designed to improve performance, availability, and stability in your server farms, including:

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