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Category: Microsoft

Cluster / Hyper-V / Microsoft / Storage / System Center / Uncategorized / Virtualisation

Hyper-V BIN file removal and reclaiming storage space

Background on Files in Hyper-V .XML Contains the VM configuration. .VHD and .VHDX: The virtual disks that hold the current virtual disk data, including partitions and file systems. .BIN Contains …

Collaboration / Office / Office365 / SharePoint Online

SharePoint file locked for edit

I saw this in Word live collaboration only last week but it also occurs in Excel. It appears to happen when saving the file and the users Upload Center is …

Microsoft / Performance / Server Manager / Systems Management

Reducing Windows Server 2012 R2 Server Manager CPU usage

In large environments where you use Server Manager, by default it polls the servers you’ve added quite frequently. Increasing this data refresh interval and reducing the Event Log time frame …

Automation / Microsoft / Powershell / Script / Windows Server 2012 R2

Remotely expanding partitions after expanding them in the hypervisor

Once you have expanded an underlying disk in a virtual machine, you still need to expand the disk in the guest. If, like me, you see logging on to a …

Microsoft / Powershell / Script / SQL Server

Test if a SQL table exists with PowerShell

Use Case Occasionally when managing large numbers of SQL Instances and thousands of databases, you have to do some checks prior to running a query against them. One of the …

Azure / Cloud / IIS / WordPress

Part 1: Speeding up WordPress on Azure

Issue WordPress page load times chronically slow in Azure.

Automation / How do I / Powershell / Script / Storage / Systems Management

Bulk expanding disks after increasing their physical size

About This script deals with expanding the logical volumes in windows after they have been expanded in the hypervisor. It will work on any windows server which you have remote …

Automation / Powershell / Script

Using Chocolatey to install software on Windows

Quick post on getting started with Chocolatey.

Microsoft / Office365 / Script / SharePoint 2013 / SharePoint Online / User Interface

SharePoint 2013 Make the document icon in a document library work

We have a customer who is using Colligo Engage for Outlook, uploading emails to SharePoint Online and tagging them with some additional metadata for other departments to keep track of …

How do I / Office365 / SharePoint

Creating reports from SharePoint lists

Summary This post covers creating custom reports from SharePoint  lists in Excel by joining SharePoint lists together. It specifically addresses the issues with People Picker and Lookup columns returning the row …

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