Random Musings of Jeremy Jameson
Server Core Installation - "Accessing Windows in Notification period"
I had a rather rough start this morning. When I attempted to boot up my primary workstation and...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 11/05/2008
Fessing Up About Firefox
My name is Jeremy, and I'm a Firefox user. There, I've said it. I know, I know...what am I thinking,...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 10/20/2008
Visual Studio Team System 2010 Week on Channel 9!
Visual Studio just keeps getting better and better! Check out the 20 new videos that will be...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 10/01/2008
Additional Restrictions on File and Folder Names in SharePoint
Up until this morning, I thought I knew what the restrictions were for file and folder names in...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 09/26/2008
Some Gotchas with Remote Administration of Hyper-V
As I mentioned in my previous post, last month I built out a new virtual environment using Hyper-V...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 08/28/2008
Copy/Paste Gotchas with Server Core
I'm building out a new virtualized environment using Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V. In order to...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 07/07/2008
Fiddler + WPAD - VPN = SlowPerformance
I needed to look at some low-level HTTP traffic this morning, so I fired up Fiddler -- my tool of...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 06/27/2008
Browser Button (a.k.a. Favelet or Bookmarklet) for Parsing SharePoint List Item IDs
This morning I received an email from a customer inquiring about making it easier for users to...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 06/12/2008
Backing Up User Databases in SQL Server (and SQL Server Express)
Since I appear to be on a roll with my blog this morning, I figured that I should write one more...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 05/30/2008
Counting Rows in All Database Tables in SQL Server
Here is yet another of the SQL scripts that I like to keep handy in my toolbox: Count Records in All...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 05/30/2008
Shrinking All Database Files in SQL Server
Here is another SQL script that I keep handy in my toolbox: Shrink All Database Files.sql. Unlike...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 05/30/2008
Versioning Blog Posts in WSS v3 and MOSS 2007
Complementing the Work Items list that I described in a previous post, we use a blog site...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 04/23/2008
A Better Way to Build SharePoint Solution Packages (and CAB Files)
Up until about an hour ago, I'd been using post-build events on my Visual Studio projects to create...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 04/10/2008
Memory Leak in SPLimitedWebPartManager (a.k.a. IDisposables Containing IDisposables)
Back in February, Roger Lamb kicked off his MSDN blog with a great post (SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 04/09/2008
Creating a Site Template in MOSS 2007 that Works in WSS v3
Shortly after publishing my previous post covering "TFS Lite" for WSS v3, Dragan Panjkov noted that...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 04/08/2008
Enumerating Feature Definitions in WSS v3 and MOSS 2007
There might be occasions where you need to "decode" the feature GUID in Windows SharePoint Services...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 04/08/2008
WSUS Clients Failing with Error 0x80244019 After Installing WSUS SP1
Last week I discovered that many of my servers were no longer updating successfully from my intranet...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 04/08/2008
"TFS Lite" for WSS v3
In my previous post, I introduced my "TFS Lite" SharePoint site template that I've been using for...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 04/07/2008
"TFS Lite" for WSS v2
[Update (2008-04-07): "TFS Lite" for WSS v3 is now available.] For almost as long as I can remember...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 04/01/2008
Disabling Hibernation in Windows Vista (and Deleting Hiberfil.sys)
As I described in my previous post, I found myself with a paltry 320 MB of free space on a 20 GB...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 02/17/2008
Deleting Variation Labels Does Not Delete Underlying Sites
I've received a number of responses to my series on the problems we encountered with Microsoft...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 11/28/2007
Dumping MOSS 2007 Variations - Part 3
In part 1 and part 2 of this series, I talked about some major issues with the variations feature in...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 11/02/2007
Dumping MOSS 2007 Variations - Part 2
In part 1 of this series, I talked about my current customer's decision to abandon the use of the...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 10/31/2007
Dumping MOSS 2007 Variations - Part 1
Shortly before I headed out to the airport last Wednesday, I received the fateful email from my...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 10/30/2007
Copying a SQL Server Database to Another Environment
A couple of weeks ago I was troubleshooting a performance problem with the variations feature in...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 10/29/2007
Variation Logs Paging Bug
It's embarrassing how my blog posts rapidly died off after this past June. However it's even more...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 10/27/2007
"Incorrect syntax near 'COLLATE'." Error When Trying to Join a SharePoint Farm
I encountered another nasty bug this morning while rebuilding our Microsoft Office SharePoint Server...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 08/21/2007
"Failed to configure propagation share." Error Configuring Office SharePoint Server Search
Last weekend I had to rebuild our Test environment for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS)...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 06/26/2007
Performance of Virtual Machines
Yesterday I had to rebuild our Test environment (TEST) to replace a VM (running on VMWare) with a...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 06/24/2007
Save HUGE Amounts of Disk Space by Slipstreaming Service Packs
This is a little embarrassing, but I captured numerous screenshots back in April while rebuilding my...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 06/23/2007
Issues Deploying SharePoint Solution Packages
Several weeks ago, I converted our deployment process to use SharePoint solution packages instead of...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 06/17/2007
MOSS Development Environment and a Windows Update Bug
In my previous post, I talked about splitting our Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 06/09/2007
Virtual Server Issues and Recommendations for MOSS Virtual Environments
One of the tasks that I completed this week was splitting our Development environment (DEV) into...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 06/09/2007
Deleting Large Sites and Recovering from the Failed Deletion of a Site
Apparently you cannot delete a site containing a large amount of content in Microsoft Office...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 05/07/2007
No Error Displayed When Database Update Fails
Here’s a nasty bug that I ran into about three weeks ago... If you attempt to modify a view on a...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 05/06/2007
Creating Document Center Sites on a Publishing Portal
Here is another issue I discovered long ago, but haven't blogged about yet. Shame on me. When...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 05/06/2007
Master Page Not Inherited by Document Center Sites
This isn't a recent discovery -- I first encountered this in late Februrary -- but I realized that I...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 05/06/2007
Always Specify Element with Custom Content Types
I came across a nasty bug earlier this week in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 --...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 05/06/2007
The Case of the Disappearing Hosts File
Hmmm...how should I phrase this? It has been a very educational couple of weeks on my current...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 05/05/2007
Team-Based Development in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Eric Charran has posted an article on MSDN with some great pointers on developing SharePoint...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 04/24/2007
Out-of-the-Box Permission (Policy) Levels
For a couple of months now, I have been using the following command to add myself to a Microsoft...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 04/23/2007
Structuring Visual Studio Solutions
Over the years, I have refined how I create Visual Studio projects based on lessons learned and new...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 04/19/2007
SQL Server Authentication Modes
A fellow consultant here in Denver sent out a message yesterday inquiring about formal...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 03/23/2007
Testing for Expected Exceptions with Visual Studio
Since I seem to be on a roll blogging this morning, I thought I'd see if I could get one more in...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 03/22/2007
What's in a name? "DefaultFeatureReceiver" vs. "FeatureConfigurator"
In my previous post (Scope Dependencies for SharePoint Features) you may have noticed that in the...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 03/22/2007
Scope Dependencies for SharePoint Features
While integrating various SharePoint features last week, I discovered some of the details around the...
Author: Jeremy Jameson - MSFT Date: 03/22/2007