February 2009 - Posts
In the past 9 months (almost to the day) I’ve been tracking my weight loss efforts on www.LiveStrong.com and this morning I’ve reached the milestone of 30 lbs lost. Yay! This puts me about 3 lbs away from my next personal milestone – weighing less than I have since I graduated from college.
In an effort to encourage myself, I haven’t been recording my weight any time the number goes up which explains the continuous downward slope. Totally a mind game I play with myself. The frequency of the little dots has gone up as I now have a LiveStrong mobile app on my iPhone which lets me put details such as food and weight.
I bought an iPhone game today – an awesome game called Crayon Physics Deluxe. This little app is incredibly cool. You get to draw shapes and lines with your finger and have these amazing Rube Goldberg Crayola machines spring into action. I showed this to a few co-workers and they’re off to grab the desktop version of Crayon Physics (free demo available here). This is really worth a look.
Now imagine this thing on a Microsoft Surface table!
I love it when tools work exactly right. This was so simple to do once I had the tool installed correctly I just had to blog about it.
I was faced with the requirement of migrating SOME but not all of the lists and document libraries from one SharePoint 2007 farm to another SharePoint 2007 farm and I had to preserve ALL of the security settings and user created alerts. However, there were certain things which had to be left behind. So I turned to AvePoint and a trial version of the DocAve 5.0 Administration Suite’s Content Manager. This tool was brilliantly simple to configure and use to instantly move content between the farms.
Notes:
- I was migrating content inside of the same AD domain. There is a domain and user mapper utility (seen near the top of the screen in the screenshot) but I was not required to use it
- I had to call support twice to work out an issue where my chosen service account didn’t have the right credentials on the required servers, but after the IT department straightened out my security I was able to do the rest myself. Credit goes to the AvePoint support team and Mr. Dae and Ms. Chan for their excellent off-hours help.
- The content migration service account needed to be a farm admin on both farms and a local admin on the web servers and DB servers. Once this was set correctly, I received no errors and my content is in place EXACTLY how I wanted it.
Here’s an annoying bug I encountered. Don’t know if this impacts anyone else, but my 5 second search attempt yielded no results so I thought I’d throw this out there for the world to read.
If you have an open Citrix Metaframe connection to a remote machine and you try to fire up a VMWare Workstation (I’m using version 6.5.1), the VMWare screen will show up incorrectly. In my case, the screen was offset too far to the top and left. I was basically able to see about 2/3rd of the screen from the bottom right corner up. Very odd. I rebooted the VM three times. When I shut down the Citrix connection and started up the VM, everything was fine again.
You have been warned!
[EDIT] – This problem only occurs if you have the Citrix connection up BEFORE loading the VMWare machine. Going in the opposite order allows everything to work as expected.