Out Of Office

On the 18th July 2009 I set off driving 10,000 miles from Hyde Park, London to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. For more information and what happened visit my website www.drivingdotty.com

I will be out of office, travelling until August 2010 so appologies for the lack of new posts but if you are inclined check out my travel blog here: http://outofoffice.bytelab.co.uk

And I do also have a professional website with full client list and examples of past work. If you want to get in touch this is probably the easiest way to find me: http://www.bytelab.co.uk

MOSS July Infrastructure Update

http://sharepointnotes.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/updating-from-moss-sp1-to-the-infrastructure-update/

1. Download the infrastructure updates for both WSS and MOSS
   • WSS: x86 – x64
   • MOSS: x86 – x64
2. Install the WSS infrastructure update on all the servers in the farm. Do not run the Wizard at the end
3. Install the MOSS infrastructure update on all servers in the farm. Again, do not run the Wizard at the end
4. Run the Wizard on the server hosting the Central Administration Web Site
5. Run the Wizard on the remaining servers in the farm one at a time
6. Once all the servers are upgraded, verify in Central Administration that the version number is bumbed to 12.0.0.6318

Connecting PPS to MOSS Sub Site Master Pages

When you deploy a dashboard from Performance Point Server you have the option of choosing which master page you want to use. By default you will see all the master pages in the SharePoint master page gallery of the site collection you are publishing too.



If you are in a subsite of your portal unless you have copied your custom master pages to the site collection master page gallery you will only see the default.master in the PPS dropdown since this is the only master page in the subsite master page gallery.

For example:

• http://moss/_catalogs/masterpage/Forms/AllItems.aspx contains all portal master pages
• http://moss/mysubsite/_catalogs/masterpage/Forms/AllItems.aspx contains only default.master

To solve this simply copy your custom master page to the subsite master page gallery.

Ping Commands!

This comes from: http://www.computerhope.com/pinghlp.htm

ping

[-t] [-a] [-n count] [-l size] [-f] [-i TTL] [-v TOS]
[-r count] [-s count] [[-j host-list] | [-k host-list]]
[-w timeout] destination-list

Options

-t - Pings the specified host until stopped.

To see statistics and continue - type Control-Break;
To stop - type Control-C.

-a - Resolve addresses to hostnames.
-n - countNumber of echo requests to send.
-l - sizeSend buffer size.
-f - Set Don't Fragment flag in packet.
-i TTL Time To Live.
-v TOS - Type Of Service.
-r count - Record route for count hops
-s count - Timestamp for count hops.
-j host-list - Loose source route along host-list.
-k host-list - Strict source route along host-list.
-w timeout - Timeout in milliseconds to wait for each reply.

Examples

ping localhost

Pings the local host, this will allow you to see if the computer is able to send information out and receive the information back. Note that this does not send information over a network but may allow you to see if the card is being seen.

ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Allows you to ping another computer where the x's are located are where you would place the IP address of the computer you are attempting to ping. If this is not able to complete this should relay back an unsuccessful message which could be an indication of cable issues, network card issues, hub issue, etc.

ping computerhope.com

PING computerhope.com (204.228.150.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www.computerhope.com (204.228.150.3): icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=0.267 ms

--- computerhope.com ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.267/0.267/0.267/0.000 ms

Adding users to Project Server PWA site

To grant users access to the PS PWA site they need to be added via the Server Settings / Manage Users page in the PWA site. Simply adding them through Site Settings / Advanced Permissions will not work.