SharePoint 2010 has a built in Health Analyzer which runs via a series of timer jobs to analyze the health and stability of the farm. Some of the rules behind the health analyzer are a bit strict and often times you’ll find an alert for something which isn’t really an issue at all. As part of our new build procedure we always address each of these alerts before handing off the farm to the client. At issue however is that these checks run on a hourly / daily / weekly or even monthly basis. It’s a disappointment to hand over a farm only to have the client call 2 weeks later indicating an ‘error message’ has popped up in central admin. The following powershell command, Continue reading ‘Run all available SharePoint 2010 Health Analyzer Checks’
Author Archive for Neil Sly
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Find which template a site collection is using
Quick! What site template is your portal using? It’s ok, I didn’t know either.. and I had a brief moment of frustration finding out. As always I knew powershell was the answer, but exactly how eluded me for a brief while. I remembered reading about Get-SPWebTemplate over at Jeff DeVerter’s Social-Point Blog which will list all of the templates installed on the farm, but not on a site/web basis. I directed my attention towards Get-SPSite but that’s Continue reading ‘Find which template a site collection is using’
6 points on IPv6 for the Windows admin
For most of my career IPv6 has been a personal afterthought. I knew the basics: the what, the how, the why, and the when; which was always “later.” However, the IPv4 shortage date is steadily growing sooner and sooner and in addition Microsoft has begun shipping all new products with IPv6 support enabled out of the box. These reasons alone are enough to at least begin your IPv6 planing – but recent media coverage has re-ignited the issue and it’s a good idea to have an answer when your boss asks you about IPv6. Continue reading ‘6 points on IPv6 for the Windows admin’
MOSS Deployment Failures
I was working with one of our developers to deploy an updated solution into one of our farms today. Generally when upgrading a solution I’ll go ahead and completely back it out (retract the solution from each webapp and the delete from the solution store) before doing a fresh install of the updated code. I was in a bit of a hurry today Continue reading ‘MOSS Deployment Failures’
Certifications and Experience
My background in IT comes from several years of general helpdesk / break fix and system administrator experience. My most senior position has been as a Sr Network Engineer jockeying routers and ap’s all day long. I usually tried to spend as little time in front of a Windows server as possible – and my exposure was usually related to on call incidents and hardware problems. So it’s a bit ironic I find myself as a systems analyst specializing in web technology. I’m now knee deep in Windows server, IIS, .Net, SQL and some strange thing called SharePoint (or maybe it’s MOSS.)
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