IT

by wooter on IT

Versioning for dummies

In a very old post, I explained how to set up your own Subversion server to benefit from storing your scripts in a versioning repository. Certainly when you are working with multiple administrators on one environment, you want to be sure you are using the latest version of a certain script, and be able to roll back to a working version if you or one of your colleagues manage to wreck it.

New environment, and while setting up a new Subversion for our small group of admins, I found out about VisualSVN.  Same functionality, but easier to use!

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by wooter on SharePoint

Moving stuff breaks stuff

If you’re toying around with SharePoint and want to move a site to another location, you might run into what I’ve run into: broken Lookup field links.

SharePoint Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 feature 20 server templates you can integrate within your SharePoint infrastructure with the command line utility stsadm.exe.

This command line utility also allows you to move sites. Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) does not have any features to really move sites, and so the advised way to move sites within and over WSS web farms is to use stsadm.exe export and import operations to export a given site, and import it on another location.

For instance, exporting a site from your WSS web farm goes somewhat like this:

stsadm.exe -o export -url http://mysharepoint/site/subsite -filename subsite.bak

Importing this site back into your WSS web farm goes like this:

stsadm.exe -o import -url http://mysharepoint/subsite -filename subsite.bak

You now have moved your subsite to the root site.  Or did you? … →

 
by wooter on IT, Microsoft, SharePoint

Stopped the WSS Search? D’oh!

If you’re like me, you sometimes play with SharePoint.  In the last SharePoint Services 3.0 installation I noticed that the search function did not give back results, and I went out to scout what the problem was.

The Windows SharePoint Services Search is configured on the Central Administration website, Operations tab and Services on Server section.  There, you can select which server’s services you want to see, and see their running state and if necessary stop them.

I stopped the Windows SharePoint Services Search services, and that was a Bad Idea.

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by wooter on Active Directory, IT, Microsoft, Windows

Be mindful of the Current Time

If you ever run into one of those messages “The current time on the computer and the current time on the network are different” when trying to log on, you will probably try to log on on the domain controller and try to assess in which amount the time got desynchronised in your domain or between domains in your forrest.  As you might know, Active Directory is picky about time, because the Kerberos authentication does not accept timestamps that differ more than 5 minutes between the machine that is trying to host the login and the domain controller.

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