Travis Lingenfelder

Travis is a senior consultant for Catapult Systems and blogs about Microsoft technologies including SharePoint, but is passionate about all things relating to technology. Travis is a MCTS for SharePoint Server 2007, application development and configuration.
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Dec9

WSS and MOSS Install - Additional Configuration Tips and Tricks

When installing WSS or MOSS the setup program and the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard will complete most install operations for you, but there are several things that should also be completed that the wizard will not do and is also not included in the Microsoft documentation.  This post will outline some additional configuration tasks that should always be completed w...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on Wednesday, 9 Dec 2009 03:11.
0 Comments | Categories: Configuration, SharePoint

 
Nov17

Server 2008 R2 – VMware – Network Compatibility Issues

I ran into an issue recently on a 64-bit Server 2008 R2 machine running on VMware.  The problem started after trying to do a Multicast Windows Network Load Balancing setup.  The system would constantly hang or would freeze after making ANY network changes.  I found Aaron Saikovski’s blog and the steps that he outlined seemed to solve the issue. Basically, you need to make sure that when adding...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on Tuesday, 17 Nov 2009 09:10.
0 Comments | Categories: Configuration

 
Aug26

SharePoint Farm Performance Recommendations

The recommendations described in this section are general guidelines and best-practices to apply to a SharePoint implementation.  The majority of the items listed here are not of my own discovery, but rather a summary of the information that can be found in the whitepaper Scaling SharePoint 2007: Storage Architecture (R2) created by Russ Houberg and KnowledgeLake. Virtualization In reality, a...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on Wednesday, 26 Aug 2009 11:17.
0 Comments | Categories: SharePoint, Configuration

 
Feb27

Change the SharePoint ULS Log File Path From a Script

PowerShell script that will move the SharePoint log files and set the retention of the log files. To run this script you will need to set the PowerShell execution policy using the following PowerShell command: set-executionpolicy Unrestricted Copy the following code and paste it into a PowerShell script file like SetSPLog.ps1. To call this from the command line or within a command script ...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on Friday, 27 Feb 2009 01:52.
1 Comment | Categories: PowerShell, SharePoint, Configuration