Tag: SysAdmin
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Configuring a host name with a SSL Certificates in IIS 7
A customer asked me if I could help troubleshoot their SharePoint environment – they had extended a web application and configured it to use Forms Based Authentication (FBA) with SSL however they were getting errors when accessing the new site. I started troubleshooting the configuration across all the servers in their SharePoint 2013 farm. I…
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Force a full syncronisation – Windows Azure Active Directory Sync
When configuring Windows Azure Active Directory Sync (or DirSync as it was previously known) it’s useful to be able to run various synchronisation tests. The default synchronisation schedule is 3 hours so unless you want to wait you will need to force a full synchronisation using PowerShell. To do this you need to load the…
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Identifying your SQL server version using SQL Server Management Studio
This one’s quick. There are a couple of ways to find out your SQL server version. Firstly the version is listed within the Object Explorer in the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. The second option which provides more detailed information is to run the following query. select @@version The version information is returned in the query…
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Remote Desktop Connection Manager
When I started my new job a few weeks ago I decided I was going to introduce some new tools and utilities to help myself and my colleagues be more productive. The first one I brought to their attention was Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) from Microsoft. I’ve known about this tool for almost a year now but…