Author name: Benoit HAMET

TMG / UAG – Antivirus exclusions

As you may already know, when you have a file system antivirus software installed on a server you have to define some exclusions (path and/or process). If you work with Exchange, SQL or SharePoint, this is something you may already have done and configured; but for those who are working with ISA, TMG, IAG or

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Online Services – New support policy

With the coming new online services (from Office 365 to Azure), Microsoft has announced new support policy for the online services. As part of this new Support Policy, a new concept called disruptive change has been introduced. Disruptive change broadly refers to changes that require significant action whether in the form of administrator intervention, substantial

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SharePoint – Want to use a SharePoint development environment from everywhere for free?

If you need a SharePoint environment available from everywhere, and for free, go to http://www.cloudshare.com/Products/CloudShare-Pro/CloudShare-Pro-overview.aspx   This fee offer is providing 3 VM’s for server and 1 for workstation. Enjoy

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ForeFront Endpoint Protection – Manage your FPE client with GPO

If you are planning or have already deployed ForeFront Endpoint Protection, this may interest you. As you know FPE is designed to be managed throught System Center Configuration Manager BUT… you may not have SCCM deployed or need more granularity. Microsoft has released tools to manage FPE with GPO. The first you need to download

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Windows 7 / Windows 2008 R2 – SP1 now available to download

Few days after releasing the Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 as RTM and made it available to download to TechNet/MSDN/Premier subscribers, Microsoft has provide public download for this Service Pack http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=c3202ce6-4056-4059-8a1b-3a9b77cdfdda&displaylang=en In the mean time, the SP1 is also available through Windows Update

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SCOM / FAST – QRProxy component shown in a critical state

If you are monitoring your Fast Servers you may have the QRProxy shown in a critical state while search query are working fine (ie returning results) and/or no events are logged on the Fast event log neiher on the SCOM console. You may have an error event on the Fast event log which is saying

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SharePoint – Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 is resetting some settings

On a previous blog post I explained how to solve some warning events logged on the SharePoint server application logs (http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2010/11/27/sharepoint-2010-user-profile-event-id-1004-and-1001/) Unfortunately, it appears that the SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 is resetting the NTFS security settings to default one. So, don’t forget to reapply the steps I provided after applying the SP1 for

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