Haven't posted anything in quite a while. The whole point of writing, in my never humble opinion, is to give other people something original that they may not have found elsewhere. So in that tradition, I wanted to share what I discovered this week about Project Portal 2007 when it become necessary to update the service account credentials. http://geekswithblogs.net/H... ......

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A lot of us use roaming profiles. There are difficulties associated with this, but once they are mitigated, roaming profiles can be a pretty useful feature. I've written an article which I hope helps you as you deal with potential issues. http://geekswithblogs.net/H... Regards, Tom Kretzmer ......

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Originally posted Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:37 AM. UPDATE: 12/14/2007 I fixed this error for one instance of my active-active cluster, but I'm still getting the same error on the other instance. I hope this information is useful to someone, as I did eliminate a bunch of possibilities as to the cause, and I did fix it for the one instance. UPDATE: ......

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Originally posted Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:19 AM. Fairly simple error, but potentially frustrating. When attempting to use the Surface Area Configuration tool, you get the error, "You cannot configure surface area of clustered services by connecting to a computer name. Conect to the virtual server to configure clustered services." I kept figuring ......

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Originally posted Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:17 AM I had the issue of configuring a windows service to log on as a service account. This repeatedly caused the account to become locked out. For me, this was happening when installing a Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) cluster, but it can happen on any service account. This will also happen during the ......

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Originally posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:08 PM If you are using NLB (Network Load Balancing), you may be forced to use Unicast (as I am). This forces you to create another IP address on another NIC to do operations other than NLB, such as domain access, administration, and connecting to a database. You may also have the misfortune of being required ......

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I've noticed that my articles aren't being picked up by the search engines, so must be something funny with the way things are set up.  Anyway, I'm moving all my articles to the root of the blog so that they can help someone.

-Tom

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Just solved a problem, and wanted to document the solution. Problem: SharePoint MOSS 2007 Central Administrations site. Select Application Management --> InfoPath Forms Services --> Manage form templates. This runs the page _admin/ManageFormTemplates.... Response is the ever-helpful SharePoint screen: Error. Unknown Error. Thanks, guys. How do ......

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The problem which has been the bane of my existence for weeks is finally solved. I created this blog to track my answer, which is http://geekswithblogs.net/H... Turns out that just because you can generate nice long SQL instance names doesn't mean that you should. I've been banging my head against this wall for weeks. Hope ......

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I realized that my former posts should really be articles, so I moved them over there.  Sorry; I'm new to this. 

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