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Enable Self-Serve Site Creation via Central Admin

July 13th, 2009, 1 Comment

Want to do this from stsadm? go here
Open your central admin site: http://servername:port (Example: http://testserver:1234) and login as a farm admin.
Navigate to the “Application Management” tab

Multiple SSL Sites using port 443

May 27th, 2009, No Comments

So had an issue a few weeks back getting multiple sharepoint sites on SSL using port 443. Thought host headers would do it but I was wrong. Found out the hard way that you have to use the command line to bind them to the host header/port. So what do you do? See below:

Set up kerberos with Excel Services within SharePoint to connect to Analysis Services

February 25th, 2009, No Comments

Recently we were trying to show a pivot table within SharePoint excel services and when we would try to drill down we would get errors… but only when we would try to drill into the report. We found that is was the dreaded “Double Hop” issue. I searched for a resolution and after reading several blogs and calling Microsoft we resolved the issue. I will attempt to recreate the steps for

Getting a list of installed programs remotely with PowerShell (part 2)

December 14th, 2008, 5 Comments

As an alternative to using WMI, another way of retrieving a list of installed programs on a remote machine is to use the [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey] class.

function Get-InstalledPrograms($computer = ‘.’) {

$programs_installed = @{};
$error_action = ‘Stop’;
$reg_uninstall_paths = @(’Software\Microsoft\Windows’`
+ ‘\CurrentVersion\Uninstall’);
$reg_uninstall_paths += @(’Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft’`
+ ‘\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall’);
$pattern_valid_name = ‘^{[\w\W}]+\Z’;
trap { ;
continue } $wmi_output = @(get-wmiobject -class ‘Win32_Product’`
-computer $computer -ErrorAction $error_action);
if ($?) [...]