Tonight I caught Todd Klindt’s webcast (after seeing a link for it on the #SharePoint Twitter feed) and came away with some interesting information – I have to admit that while I’m well aware of Todd’s great work as a SharePoint MVP, I’ve not seen his webcast and this was #42! I’ve clearly missed some great material.
Here’s the highlights I found noteworthy:
- First, Todd mentioned the goodness that comes from using SQL Aliases when it comes to migrating non-content databases to different environments. Aliases allow you define a local name to point SQL clients (like SharePoint) against, effectively decoupling the connection from a “hard-coded” definition. This makes it far easier to manage a move between mirrored environments for disaster recovery scenarios or when you need to promote a farm, move servers, virtualize SQL, etc. There is a LOT of info out there on SQL Aliases – just search and ye shall find.
- Second, Todd has a new book out due for June: Professional SharePoint 2010 Administration. He’s a co-author with Shane Young and Steve Caravajal – Shane should be familiar to anyone who has done the SharePoint Ignite training or taken the free ITPro and Dev eLearning courses.
- Third, Todd provided a really cool PowerShell script to expedite setup of your 2010 Virtual Machine images. This baby will set up your test AD Accounts (from a .csv file), add the farm account to the domain admins group, configure the AD password policy to never expire, disable the “loopback check”, set the machine to log-on as the farm admin, add the PowerShell GUI and turn on the desktop experience bits. Fantastic!
Great material – I’ve set a reminder for the next show.
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