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February 23, 2010

SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0

by @ 7:20 am. Filed under SharePoint, Tools/Utils

The Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help manage Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) version 3.0. This toolkit contains the ability to diagnose performance issues, perform bulk operations on site collections, an Stsadm operation to update alert e-mails after the URL for a Web application has been changed, and a User Profile Replication Engine tool.

The supported operating systems include Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista and Windows XP. You must have MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 installed on your computer. Microsoft recommends that version 1.0 and 2.0 of the SharePoint Administration Toolkit be uninstalled first before you install version 3.0 of the SharePoint Administration Toolkit.

Here are the download links:

Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0 x64

Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0 x86

SharePoint Permission Reporting Tool

Included in the SharePoint Administration Toolkit from Microsoft is the Permission Reporting Tool, which provides various components to help better understand how security is being derived and applied across and within sites, lists and item. The tool includes three components - the Compare Permissions Sets function, the Check Effective Permissions function and the Broken Inheritance Reports function. Here’s a video on TechNet that will show you how to use the Permission Reporting Tool.

January 4, 2010

Installing SharePoint Server 2010 on Windows 7 x64

by @ 7:42 am. Filed under SharePoint, Tips & Tricks, Tools/Utils, Windows 7

End users are so glad to see Windows 7 released, an operating system that works so much better than Windows Vista. The developers, system administrators,  and Microsoft Certified Trainers are not too happy to find out that Microsoft doesn’t support Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 in Windows 7 and even though there are ways to install it (see my blog post “How to Install Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 on Windows 7″), you cannot install a 64-bit guest operating system in Virtual PC 2007.  Yes, although Virtual PC 2007 can be installed on a 64-bit host operating system, you cannot run any 64-bit guest operating system in Virtual PC 2007.

Unfortunately, SharePoint Server 2010 can only be installed on a 64-bit computer. Which means, if you are a developer, trainer, or a tester interested in testing SharePoint Server 2010 in a Virtual Machine, you can’t, You have to go buy a 64-bit computer just to test SharePoint Server 2010, or look for non-Microsoft solutions. For some people it may not be a big deal to look for non-Microsoft solutions but for people like me who teach, consult, support, test, and write about Microsoft technologies and products, it sure makes our jobs difficult.

Luckily, CodeProject has an interesting solution that allows running SharePoint 2010 on a Windows 7 x64 computer simply by modifying the config.xml file located at C:\Program Files (x86)\MSECache\oserver2010. Here’s how.

- Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\MSECache\oserver2010
- Go to the Files folder
- Go to the Setup folder
- Open config.xml
- Add the following line before the closing </configuration> tag

<Setting Id=”AllowWindowsClientInstall” Value=”True”/>

Click here to read the details on CodeProject’s Web site. Before you get started, I encourage you to read this post from MCT Michael Pisarek who explains the steps and gives you some nice tips.

January 3, 2010

Core Configurator 2.0 for Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Edition

by @ 10:26 am. Filed under Tools/Utils, Windows 2008

Managing Windows Server 2008 R2 Core edition can be challenging without a GUI. Luckily, CodePlex has come out with Core Configurator 2.0, a free, open source, graphical tool that will let you manage several of your Windows Server 2008 R2 Core edition settings. The previous version was meant to work with Windows Server 2008.

This tool has been written in PowerShell with a reference to Winforms so that a GUI format is displayed. If you haven’t enabled PowerShell on your server core, it will even offer to enable it. Core Configurator tasks include:

cc20

You can download the tool here.

December 26, 2009

SharePoint Price Calculator

by @ 10:11 am. Filed under SharePoint, Tools/Utils

When I am looking for information on SharePoint that I can’t find, Sharee’s Blog is one of my first stops. I stumbled on this post she wrote about SharePoint Price Calculator that you will find very useful.

Hopefully, Bamboo Solutions will update the calculator so it will calculate price for Windows Server 2008 and other newer products. At the time of writing, the tool only calculates prices for older products, such as Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005. However, it’s a good tool to get an idea of how much it will cost to implement various Microsoft solutions related to SharePoint. Click here to access the SharePoint Price Calculator.

pricecalculator

December 15, 2009

Group Policy Settings Reference for Windows Server 2003/2008/Vista

by @ 1:08 pm. Filed under Active Directory, Tools/Utils, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows 7, Windows Vista

Microsoft offers several spreadsheets that contain all the settings for group policies. These spreadsheets list the policy settings for computer and user configurations included in the Administrative template files delivered with the Windows operating systems specified. You can configure these policy settings when you edit Group Policy objects (GPOs).

Using column filters, you can filter the information in these spreadsheets by operating system, component, or computer or user configuration. You can also search for information by using text or keywords.

These spreadsheets include the following categories of security policy settings: Account Policies (Password Policy, Account Lockout Policy, and Kerberos Policy), Local Policies (Audit Policy, User Rights Assignment, and Security Options), Event Log, Restricted Groups, System Services, Registry, and File System policy settings. These spreadsheets do not include security settings that exist outside of the Security Settings extension (scecli.dll), such as Wireless Network extension, Public Key Policies, or Software Restriction Policies.

Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows 2000; Windows 2000 Server; Windows 7; Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Server 2008 R2; Windows Vista; Windows XP
- Microsoft Excel or Excel Viewer

    Click here to download the spreadsheets.

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