Windows 7 profile problems

In order to delete local copies of romaing profile, together with C: profile directory, you needs to clean ProfileList registry. Otherwise Windows 7 goes crazy.

Nessus scripts and credentials protection

Please read here to set Windows domain account that can be used in Nessus scripts:

http://www.nessus.org/documentation/nessus_domain_whitepaper.pdf

The account has registry read access, however it's not part of Domain admins.

Window position is off screen - black magic

right click on window in taskbar – select Move, then move mouse a little bit – you should see 4 arrows cursor– then press _keyboard_ arrow then left click mouse – windows will appear on the desktop

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/bring-misplaced-off-screen-windows-back-to-your-desktop-keyboard-trick/

Sharepoint config LDF log is huge

Running into disk space issue on Sharepoint server. The LDF file of Sharepoint config is 25GB. Not good!

there are some other users who went throught this: http://mindsharpblogs.com/bill/archive/2005/01/14/181.aspx
http://boris.gomiunik.net/2008/10/sharepoint-config-database-log-file-too-big-reduce-it/

Sharepoint Search account

I have an error "Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content" in the search crawl of http://intranet

Apparently, the server can not access itself with an Cname alias. The "intranet" is indeed Cname DNS alias for the server. If you have this case you should read this.

http://harbar.net/archive/2009/07/02/disableloopbackcheck-amp-sharepoint-what-every-admin-and-developer-should-know.aspx

and this

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepointsearch/thread/84f93fbe-f4a6-4683-b25b-b595b9006ad7

Sharepoint 2007 blob cache

Sharepoint OOB comes with Blob cache disabled. You can enable it - http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA101762841033.aspx

and cache jpg and other files in local server disk and free SQL DB resources.

Sharepoint error ID 10016

We had the error logged in eventlog on MOSS 2007:

Log Name: System
Source: Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM
Date: 10/6/2009 2:38:02 AM
Event ID: 10016
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: xx\WSSServiceGeneric
Computer: xxx
Description:
The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server
application with CLSID
{61738644-F196-11D0-9953-00C04FD919C1}
to the user xx\WSSServiceGeneric SID (S-1-5-21-2609680699-1071808428-3414302311-1015)
from address LocalHost (Using LRPC). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services
administrative tool.
Event Xml:


EventSourceName="DCOM" />
10016
0
2
0
0
0x80000000000000

47708


System
xxx



application-specific
Local
Activation
{61738644-F196-11D0-9953-00C04FD919C1}
xx
WSSServiceGeneric
S-1-5-21-2609680699-1071808428-3414302311-1015
LocalHost (Using LRPC)



And it looks looks the solution is

http://geekswithblogs.net/mhamilton/archive/2006/12/19/101568.aspx

to add security to misterious IIS WAMREG admin service