Andrew Kennel
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PHL ParkingAnother update to SPWakeUp
April 8, 2008I’ve made another update to my SPWakeup script.This latest version adds the ability to wake Site Collections in addition to Sub Sites.As always, you can download the latest version here:http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/spwakeup This script uses STSADM to list the sites. It runs stsadm -o enumsubwebs and stsadm -o enumsites then parses through the resulting text.Both commands return…
Continue Reading →Sharepoint tip
April 7, 2008Some good did come of last week’s disaster. I learned a great deal about Sharepoint internal workings. One handy tip I picked up was a way to get to the WebParts running on a page, even if that pages is down. Just add ?Controls=1 to the end of your URL, for example: http://site/Pages/default.aspx?Controls=1 This takes…
Continue Reading →Update to SPWakeUp script
April 7, 2008I made a small update to my SPWakeUp tool today. You can download a copy at: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/spwakeup It’s something I should have done long ago: error catching! I noticed that when I included our MySites URL in the list of sites to wake up, the script was bombing. Turns out that when you create the…
Continue Reading →We had some trouble with Sharepoint this week
April 4, 2008On Tuesday, the site stopped responding. Eventually I was able to track the problem down to an authentication problem ultimately caused by a loose network cable of all things. It was very unfun, and the server went down for about 5 to 10 minutes at a time 5 times while I struggled to fix things….
Continue Reading →Search changes
March 31, 2008After my recent class at Mindsharp, I've made a few changes to the waysearch indexing is currently running. The class was focused on the newSearch Server 2008, but happily, most of the information applied toour current search services for MOSS 2007. Based on what I learned, I adjusted our crawl schedule to run a fullcrawl…
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