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SharePoint 2010: The user does not exist or is not unique.

October 26, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


If you are seeing the error message above, chances are you set an incorrect value or values configuring the object cache user accounts for one of your web applications. If you want to reset them back to their default values you can run the following STSADM commands or use the PowerShell script below. Note: %1 […]

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Visual Studio 2010 SP1 TFS 2012 Compatibility GDR

October 21, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


UPDATE: 2012-09-12 A new GDR has been posted.  This new GDR update includes previous CUs and adds compatibility for VS 2012 and Windows 8.  The full list of fixes can be found here. Here is a list of some of the fixes and improvements: Adds support to the TE 2010 client to allow it to […]

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Microsoft Test Manager, Team Foundation Server, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012

The 2011 SharePoint Conference

October 12, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  The sessions that stood out for me were the following, here they are in no particular order: From Web Content Management to Customer Experience Management: How to Optimize External Web Site and Deliver a Search-Driven Experience Speakers: Stephen Powers and Leslie Owens both of whom are Analysts at Forrester Application Lifecycle Management: Automated builds […]

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Copy SPList in SharePoint 2010

September 26, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  We recently had a requirement after we upgraded some SharePoint 2007 Content Databases to SharePoint 2010 to move some of the content (Lists) into a different site template. Some of the lists we had to move were: Discussions Announcements I decided to use Gary Lapointe’s PowerShell Extensions for SharePoint 2010 which were simple to […]

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SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint Server
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FAST Search Indexer warning of low disk space

September 19, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  If your FAST Search index server has devoured all of your disk space you will be receiving the following warnings: Log Name: FAST Search Source: FAST Search Indexer Date: 9/18/2011 11:16:35 PM Event ID: 1000 Task Category: None Level: Warning Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: FST-01.LIKE10.LOCAL Description: resource_checker: Disk space for resource FIXML storage […]

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FAST Search Server, SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 Master Pages and Page Layouts

September 14, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 2 Comments


  It has been a little while since I we were tasked to build a SharePoint Master Page and Corresponding Page Layouts.  I wanted to go through a bit of what we did and the developers’ working environment. Our development environment (single Virtual Machine with 10Gb RAM) consisted of the following: Windows Server 2008 R2 […]

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CKSDev, SharePoint, SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint Server

2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (SP1)

September 14, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  This updated release actually consists of three (3) virtual machines now!  Virtual machine “a” contains the following pre-configured software: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Standard Evaluation Edition, running as an Active Directory Domain Controller for the “CONTOSO.COM” domain with DNS and WINS Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition with Analysis, Notification, and Reporting […]

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FAST Search Server, SharePoint, SharePoint Server

Team Foundation Server 2010 Build Agent not part of the domain

September 3, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 21 Comments


  Figure: Ports Required Technical Details To support this initiative we employ the use of shadow accounts (mirrored local accounts). In our test case we created local accounts named “localTfsBuild” on the Team Build Server and Team Foundation Server Application Tier using identical passwords. A host entry was also added on the Team Build Server […]

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Team Build, Visual Studio 2010
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Introduction to TFS 2010 Training Kit available for download

August 26, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


  This training kit includes presentations, hands-on labs and demos designed to help you get acquainted with the features of TFS 2010. This training kit also includes a sample Team Project Collection for you to use with the labs. NOTE: The collection only includes the team projects for the modules that do not require an […]

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Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio 2010

August 2011 TFS 2010 Power Tools

August 19, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  The latest version of the TFS Power Tools have been released, no more need to uninstall and install anymore this version will upgrade an existing installation. Here are the download links: Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider 2010 Team Foundation Server Build Extensions Power Tool If you are looking […]

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Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio 2010
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