MS Project - task types

All is turning around a simple formula:

W =  U * D

where W - work, U - units (number of resources for the task), D - duration.

Task types can be Fixed Work, Fixed Units, Fixed Duration.

Most used is Fixed Work.

If you have 32h of Work and it is fixed, you need 1 person (8h working day) and 4 days then duriation. If you add additonal resource, now you have say 2 persons - then duration will be 2.


Now if you would set task as Fixed Duration and you add second person, MSP will change Work, not duration (because it is fixed). It is less intuitive, but once you have formula and mind and you know which variable is fixed, then all become clear.

Fixed units is also a task type, and guess what - the same formula applies.  Can not change unit then. By changing duration to 2 you will half the work to 16. The same MPS person can only do half of the work if you ask him to half duration.

What's new in SharePoint 2016

http://en.share-gate.com/blog/whats-new-in-sharepoint-2016

5000 items limit removed
10gb files upload
Hybrid nature

SfB client login process

http://skype4b.uk/2015/11/03/skype-for-business-client-sign-in-workflow-chart-external/

SharePoint 2010 updates

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn789211(v=office.14).aspx


http://blogs.technet.com/b/steve_chen/archive/2015/10/14/build-numbers-cube-sheet-for-sharepoint-2010.aspx#updatesequence


http://www.toddklindt.com/sp2010builds  (not yet up-to-date for October 2015 patch)

How to generate packets for testing

The easiest is with Nmaps nping:

 .\nping -c 9999999 --delay 10s --tcp -p 5061 my_testing_host_ip

Take a network trace from SBA without wireshark

SBA is a difficult animal, you do not want to install extra software on it. If you still need to take network trace you can create a following cmd file:

netsh trace start persistent=yes capture=yes maxsize=2048 tracefile=c:\temp\nettrace.etl

timeout 60

netsh trace stop


and run is as administrator

Then open in Microsoft Message Analyser and save as - export as netmon .cap file.

Then you can read it with Wireshark if you want, as you can see it is not possible without Wireshark :)

or use https://github.com/microsoft/etl2pcapng 

Increase upload file size in Sharepoint 2010

http://yalla.itgroove.net/2013/01/25/sharepoint-2010-file-size-upload-limits-the-essential-mix/