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Sharepoint 2010 Backup and Cleanup Scripts with Notifications

October 10, 2012 mmwheeler

Simple scripts that you can automate with the Task Scheduler to backup/cleanup your Sharepoint 2010 farm with email notifications. Backup Script try { $today = (Get-Date -Format dd-MM-yyyy) #Location of the Backup Folder [IO.Directory]::CreateDirectory(“E:BackupDailyFarmBackUp$today”) # This will actually initiate the SPFarm backup. Backup-SPFarm -Directory E:BackupFullFarmBackup$today -BackupMethod full # Backup-SPFarm -Directory […]

DIY Visual Pinball Cabinet – Part 2

October 2, 2012 mmwheeler

Almost there! The build is completed and painted. I got the legs attached. Still waiting for the digital plunger and motion kit. Do NOT order order directly from NanoTech Entertainment directly. Use the link above via virtuapin.net […]

DIY Visual Pinball Cabinet – Part 1

September 22, 2012 mmwheeler

Decided to build my own Visual Pinball Cabinet. I found these plans to base my cabinet on. I am using an old 20″ monitor for the backglass and a 32″ LCD flat-screen TV for the playfield. I will be using Hyperpin as my front-end for Visual Pinball and Future Pinball games. […]

SQL Server Analysis Services Linking to Other Instance Feature is Disabled

September 16, 2012 mmwheeler

This is related to my previous post on cloning VMs. I was not able to connect to the Analysis Server and Synchronize (cubes) between databases because of the following error. Errors in the OLE DB provider. The server returned the following, error: (Errors related to feature availability and configuration: The ‘Linking to […]

Sharepoint 2010 VM Clone Wars

September 16, 2012 mmwheeler

I have a Sharepoint 2010 standalone farm consisting of a WFE VM and a SQL Server 2008 with SSRS, SSAS on another VM. This farm lives in DataCenter1. Because of network issues and proximity to a data warehouse; I needed to move these VMs to DataCenter2. Once the VMs were […]

Sharepoint 2010 Personalization Site and Global Navigation Audience Targeting

July 3, 2012 mmwheeler

For whatever reason; the Global Navigation in a Personalization Site template does not support Dynamic FlyOut menus OR Audience Targeting. I had added several custom links in my top navigation bar and audience targeted them according to specific user roles. All users, however, could see every link regardless of the […]

Rename SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Server Databases

June 13, 2012 mmwheeler

Had a task to move the default SQL Reporting Services ReportServer and ReportServerTempDB databases to a new SQL cluster which required a rename to avoid any potential conflicts. These instance of the databases are being used in Sharepoint-Integrated Mode. You could do Step 7 below before you do Steps 4 […]

Populating Notes field from Cascading Dropdown Selections

April 30, 2012 mmwheeler

This was a solution I figured out for populating a notes field from cascading drop-downs. I’ve had some folks e-mail me asking for the actual implementation. In my scenario, I was creating a Sharepoint form front-end that would create an Incident Ticket in BMC Remedy. […]

Dynamically Resize Sharepoint 2010 Report Viewer Web Part

April 26, 2012 mmwheeler

Came across this blog which shows how to dynamically resize a Reporting Services Viewer Web Part to fit the height of the content/report using JQuery. Here’s the code for completeness. For my execution, I placed this on an HTML page and call it through a Content Editor Web Part. <script […]

Selection is not a valid PerformancePoint content HotFix

April 18, 2012 mmwheeler

There is now a hotfix which addresses my previous post regarding PerformancePoint not setting the location on the web parts without user intervention in manually typing the correct location. The problem was a regression in the June 2011 CU that caused the asset picker to stop functioning properly http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2597936

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