Techblurt: Privacy & Security Perspectives

Category: Microsoft

  • PowerShell to disable Application Pool timeouts

    There are few things more annoying in life than debugging in Visual Studio and getting an App Pool timeout in IIS7+ and having to start again… See below my PowerShell script to disable this on all application pools. Disclaimer: Only to be run on a development environment. Really!!! $AppPools = Get-WmiObject -Class IISApplicationPoolSetting -Namespace ‘root/microsoftiisv2’…

  • Activating Windows 8 Enterprise RTM – 0x8007007B

    The Problem I came across the following error message when activating Windows 8 Enterprise x64 RTM en-gb, downloaded from MSDN: “Error 0x8007007B  The File name, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.” The Solution Using the key provided to you (MSDN etc.) you will need to run the following in an elevated command prompt…

  • International SharePoint Conference Slides

    A great three days at the International SharePoint Conference in London – lots of great content and good to see a lot of the usual faces, always love meeting more of the SharePoint Community. Serious props to Steve & Zoe and the rest of the Combined Knowledge crew for such a well organised conference. Here…

  • Making Better Decisions with Self-Service Business Intelligence & SharePoint

    I’ve just finished a couple of packed events on Self-Service BI with SQL and SharePoint… thank you all for attending in Jersey on Guernsey with Dan Hare and Mark Loane – thanks also to David Grady who was instrumental in the setup of our fancy new SQL 2012 demos with REAL data… no sight of…