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Find what w3sp is running what IIS site

Chris Auer — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:29:57 +0000

http://abhijitjana.net/2010/07/15/identifying-worker-process-w3wp-exe-iis-6-0-and-iis-7-0-for-debugging-asp-net-application/

Change IP address of Microsoft Cluster

Chris Auer — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:04:41 +0000

http://alipka.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/how-to-change-cluster-ip-address-or-move-the-default-cluster-group-in-windows-server-2008/

Check database table sizes

Chris Auer — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:30:48 +0000

http://www.cryer.co.uk/brian/sqlserver/howto_list_table_sizes.htm

Truncate log file in 2008 (no backup)

Chris Auer — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:16:03 +0000

use [WSS_Content]

select * FROM sys.database_files

ALTER DATABASE [WSS_Content] SET RECOVERY SIMPLE WITH NO_WAIT

DBCC SHRINKFILE(WSS_Content_log, 1)

ALTER DATABASE [WSS_Content] SET RECOVERY FULL WITH NO_WAIT

Hide all the SharePoint goodies when in anonymous mode

Chris Auer — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:18:23 +0000

When you are in anonymous mode, published, you dont want any of the SharePoint scripts to be running like named.dll. The way to hide it is to wrapped the SharePoint scripts in a security tab. Thus security trimming the scripts and SharePoint overriding CSS classes.

This product requires ASP.NET v2.0 to be set to ‘Allow’ in the list of IIS Web Server Extensions

Chris Auer — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:11:00 +0000

I think there might be an issue with .NET 2.0 SP2 that causes my normal fix of “click the reinstall button on .NET 2.0″ to fix this issue. i recently ran into this issue again and it didnt work. What did work is the commands below. Bascially it is uninstalling and reinstalling via regiis.

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727>aspnet_regiis -u (uninstall)

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727>aspnet_regiis -i (reinstall)

the search service is currently offline. visit the services on server page in sharepoint central administration to verify whether the service is enabled. this might also be because an indexer move is in progress

Chris Auer — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:08:09 +0000

Why did this happen? No idea. How did I fix it, read below.

Open central admin
Goto Operations
Goto Services on server and located your index server
On “Office SharePoint Server Search” click “Stop”. This deconfigures it.
Now click “start”
Then click “Shared Services Administration”, hover over the failing SSP and select edit.
You will notice now the indexer is not selected. Select it from the drop down.
HERE IS THE IMPORTANT PART. The server you have selected is probably the same server as you used before. If it is, go to that server and locate the indexer files. It is in the textbox right below the drop down you just used. For me it was “F:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\12.0\Data\Office Server\Applications”. In there you will find a folder with Guid name. At the end of that folder add “_old”. Now go back to your SSP and click OK. Wait 1 minute and the index will recreate the guid folder.
Tada, all fixed.

Remove hiberfil.sys on Server 2008

Chris Auer — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:59:03 +0000

For what ever reason server 2008 creates a file on the OS drive for hybrinating the same size as the RAM that is in the server. Not sure how many servers hybrinate, but not mine.

To turn it off just run this from command line

powercfg -h off

Enjoy.

Disable Roaming Profiles In GPO

Chris Auer — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:24:54 +0000

Open you local GPO using MMC or using the GPO editor in your AD. Then enable “Only allow local user profiles” in Computer Config -> Administrative Templates -> System -> User Profiles

If you completly want to disable roaming profiles on your Terminal Server
you also have to enable “Prevent Roaming Profile changes from propagating to
the server”.

Force a truncation of a SQL log

Chris Auer — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:15:42 +0000

I ran into an issue recently with a log file that would not shrink. All the DB Truncates that I ran would not shrink it. The fix is to just detach the DB, rename the log file and reattach. That will create a new log file from scratch.

Detail are here

sp_detach_db [YourDatabaseName]

then

sp_attach_db @dbname = N‘YourDatabaseName’,
@filename1 = N‘D:\Microsoft SQL Server1\MSSQL\Data\YourDatabaseName.MDF’