SharePoint Server 2010 Best Practices

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/hh189420.aspx

Office 365 Guide / Training

• Office 365 Deployment
• Office 365 for the IT Pro

Top Tools for Deploying Windows 7

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh307507.aspx

PowerGUI Script Editor Add-ons

• Script Editor Essentials: add View White Space, Word Wrap and Virtual White Space menu items to the Edit | Advanced menu …
• ExpandAlias: expand aliases in the code pane to the full cmdlet name.
• Script Template: insert a header for new documents.
• PShellExec: secure/encrypt scripts and execute them right inside the editor

Windows Server 2008 DHCPv6 Stateless and Stateful Mode

Windows Server® 2008 supports stateless and stateful DHCPv6 server functionality. DHCPv6 stateless mode clients use DHCPv6 to obtain network configuration parameters other than the IPv6 address, such as DNS server addresses. Clients configure an IPv6 address through a non-DHCPv6 based mechanism such as IPv6 address auto-configuration (based on the IPv6 prefixes included in router advertisements), or static IP address configuration.

In DHCPv6 stateful mode, clients acquire both the IPv6 address as well as other network configuration parameters through DHCPv6.

Reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753493.aspx

Fix “could not locate entry in sysdatabases” Error

Problem: I ran into this error when executing a script on a SQL database.  I could attach or deattach the database, and SQL Management Studio showed the database was fine.

Fix: it turns out the database has ‘-‘ in the name, e.g. database_2008-10-01.  Renaming the database by removing ‘-‘ fixed the problem.

Do not use ‘-‘ in SQL database name.

Cannot Add User Account in Windows 7 Home Premium

Local Users and Groups management console (MMC) is not available in Windows 7 Starter and Home Premium.  Adding use account in these versions is through Control Panel / User Account.  If you get an error “The specified account is not valid, because account names cannot contain the following character…. Please type a different name”,

Here is how to troubleshoot

1. Verify the user account name do not contain the listing characters.
2. This error also happens when the user account name already exists.  Because the disabled account is hidden from Control Panel / User Account, type “net user” in the command prompt to view all user accounts.