Redirecting the Computers Container in Active Directory

Not really a blog post as much as it is a favorite link for something that all Active Directory administrators should be familiar with.

http://www.verboon.info/index.php/2010/03/redirect-computers-container-in-active-directory/

Some commands related to logging (SharePoint 2007)

When you're investigating logs, it is often useful to force SharePoint to begin logging to a new file after you making a change to logging levels. You can accomplish this by restarting the sptrace service:

net stop sptrace && net start sptrace

This is a command that no SharePoint administrator should be without. Inevitably, you'll need to ratchet up the logging levels to help resolve an issue. Once you're done examining the logs, instead of returning individual logging categories back to the default, use this command to return ALL categories to default.

stsadm -o setlogginglevel -default

SQL 2005 Reporting Services integrated with MOSS 2007

What a painful, painful journey this has been so far. Trying to install SQL Reporting Services 2005 in a MOSS 2007 farm is not so straight-forward. I have found this document posted on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog, but both times I have followed the documentation, I've ended with an HTTP 401 error when trying to configure integration settings in SharePoint Central Administration. The second attempt was with a PSS engineer leading me along. He seems to think that SQL Reporting Services requires Kerberos, and he has had me create SPNs, and make several Kerberos-related changes. The referenced document makes no reference to a Kerberos requirement. In fact, it simply states that if you are not using Kerberos, you need one setting change in Central Administration. Back to the grind tomorrow.