Update the WSS Search credentials. This does not change the service account password, it just updates what WSS uses.
Instructions
stsadm.exe -o spsearch -farmserviceaccount DomainName\UserName -farmservicepassword NewPassword stsadm.exe -o spsearch -farmcontentaccessaccount DomainName\UserName -farmcontentaccesspassword NewPassword
Posted in Microsoft, SharePoint Server 2007.
– July 14, 2010
This command will find computer accounts that have not checked in to the servers in over 60 days and then disable their accounts. This is great to use to clean up the computer accounts in AD.
Instructions
1. Run the following command on a Domain Controller
user@computer:$ dsquery computer -stalepwd 60 | dsmod computer -disabled yes
Posted in Microsoft, Server 2003, Server 2008, Server: Active Directory, Windows.
– July 8, 2010
How to change the Central Administration Web site port number after SharePoint has already been installed.
Instructions
1. You have to be a member of SharePoint Farm Administrators group.
2. You can only change the Central Admin Website port using stsadm command-line tool.
3. To find out the current port number run:user@computer:$ stsadm –o getadminport4. To change the port number, use the following command:
user@computer:$ stsadm –o setadminport –port <port> [-ssl] [-admapcreatenew] [-admapidname] <application pool name>Tested
July 2010
Sources
- http://erickoo.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/how-to-change-central-admin-web-site-port-wss-3-0/
Posted in Microsoft, SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint Services v3.0.
– June 24, 2010
Use the following steps to forward email received at one mailbox to another. The example below forwards the email received at one domain to another.
Instructions
- Exchange 2003
- Sign into the Mail Server
- Create a new Contact in AD
- After creating the contact open it up and add in your primary email address
- Create a new user in AD on the Mail Server, so that it create a mailbox for the new user
- After you have finished the New User wizard, open the properties to you new user
- Click the Exchange General tab, then Delivery Options
- Under Forwarding Address click Forward To: then Click Modify to select your contact you created in step 2.
- Make sure that you select your contact rather than the account you just created
- Check “Deliver messages to both forwarding address and mailbox”
- Exchange 2007
- Sign into Exchange Management Console
- Create a new Mail Contact
- Expand Recipient configuration
- Click Mail Contact
- Create a new Mail Contact for yourself with the email address you want all mail to be forwarded to
- Browse to Mailbox and find your security logon account (not your Mail Contact)
- If you have no mailbox, create a New User mail box (this creates a security account on the domain)
- Open the properties of your mail box
- Click Mail Flow Settings
- Click Delivery Options and then click Properties
- Under Forwarding Address check Forward to: and then browse to your mail contact
- Click OK on all the dialog boxes
- If there is any email filtering be sure to make adjustments to that system as well
June 2010
Posted in Exchange Server, Microsoft, Outlook.
– June 18, 2010
Find a Window’s computer uptime.
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Posted in Server 2003, Server 2008, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP.
– June 16, 2010
How to turn off Hibernation on Windows Server 2008
Instructions
Posted in Microsoft, Server 2008, Windows.
– May 24, 2010
Remote Desktop
To RDP to a Windows server from a MAC download CoRD and use the hostname or IP address of the server.
http://cord.sourceforge.net/ – this does not require admin credential to install or run
IP Scanner for Mac
http://www.angryip.org/w/Download
Posted in MACs.
– April 12, 2010
This is a summary of sources to help clean up the C: partition of a Windows Server 2003 installation. I use this as a checklist when freeing up disk space on Server 2003.
Instructions
1. Perform these steps Disk Cleanup: deleting unnecessary files
2. Clear or move the log files found in C:\Windows\System32\Logfiles
3. Manage your Servers Boot Drive
4. Use one of the following applications to find large files:
- Windirstat
- Sequoiaview
- Treeview
Posted in Microsoft, Server 2003, Server 2008, Windows.
– April 12, 2010
Force SharePoint Search to index site.
1. Run the following code on a SharePoint WFE server:
stsadm -o spsearch -action fullcrawlstop stsadm -o spsearch -action fullcrawlstart
Posted in Microsoft, SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint Services v3.0.
– April 7, 2010
SQL Server Updates past Service Packs can be hard to keep track of. I ran across this site when I could not install SharePoint Foundation 2010, because my SQL Server was not running the latest update.
This is a database of SQL Server versions for those of us who want to know what possible vulnerabilities may exist in unpatched SQL Server systems. This makes it easier for those of us tasked with securing those environments to prepare the proper documentation outlining the threat. Special thanks to Ken Klaft for helping maintain this area of the site. With the seamingly endless stream of PSS-only releases out there this gets to be really time-consuming. --Chip
Posted in Microsoft, SQL Server.
– February 26, 2010
