Dan Holme

Add a site template to Central Administration so it's available when you create a new site collection

When you create a new site collection, Central Administration creates a top level site and offers you the standard set of templates for that top level site. If you want to add a custom template to the list of templates offered by Central Administration...

Published Sun, Mar 03 2008 7:06 PM by danholme

Fully enumerating a user's group membership (Part I)

Very common question: How do I know what groups a user belongs to (including nested groups)? Answer, Part I: The DS Commands Exceprt from Solution 1-1 of the Windows Administration Resource Kit DS commands Enter the DS commands. The DS commands are command...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2008 2:10 PM by danholme

Filed under: Role Based Management, Groups

Create a drop-down list in an HTA populated with objects from Active Directory

The following code demonstrates how to create a drop-down list (also called a "combo box") in an HTA that is automatically populated by querying Active Directory. <html> <!-- This HTA demonstrates how to build a combo box filled with...

Published Tue, May 05 2008 8:28 AM by danholme

Filed under: HTA, Active Directory

Populate computer description field with information about the logged-on user

This script populates a computer object's description attribute with information about the computer and the last user who logged on, and where they logged on. It also uses the comment attribute as a 'log' of previous information, so you can...

Published Sun, May 05 2008 3:08 PM by danholme

Filed under: Administration, Active Directory

Group Policy Preferences ROCK!

Those of you who follow my work know that one thing I've (fortunately or unfortunately) been doing a lot of over the years is major "User Data & Settings" efforts--getting user data & settings off of individual computers and onto...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2008 4:56 PM by danholme

BDD or MDT Rules for Automating Pre-Install Wizard

Below is the CUSTOMSETTINGS.INI file that you can use to automate all of the pre-install wizards (except computer name, which left "in" for sake of example): [Settings] Priority=Default Properties=MyCustomProperty [Default] OSInstall=Y '...

Published Tue, May 05 2008 4:45 PM by danholme

Filed under: Document Libraries

User Data & Settings: New DFS recommendations

I'm currently implementing a hybrid DFS namespace solution that addresses all of the requirements without needing 9 links per user (which is a problem for WS2003 environments in which DFS has a 5000 link limit per namespace). The DFS namespace becomes...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2008 4:33 PM by danholme

Filed under: User Data & Settings

Prepopulating Fields in SharePoint List Pages

See http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2007/06/13/using-javascript-to-manipulate-a-list-form-field.aspx The code I’ve assembled over time: <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server"> <script...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 1:05 AM by danholme

HTA to provision a user

The following script, saved as “User_Provision.hta” (make sure you don’t get a .txt extension after that) will create an HTML Application (HTA)—a GUI tool—that will provision a user. The script was designed to demonstrate how easy it is to enforce business...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2009 8:45 PM by danholme

MDT 2008 and WAIK 1.1 bug-o-rama: wimgapi.dll and Operating Systems

I installed the WAIK 1.1 and MDT 2008 and instantly ran into several problems. First, I upgraded an existing distribution share, and when I clicked the Operating Systems node, I got an error, "unable to load DLL", specfically wimgapi.dll. (The...

Published Tue, Apr 04 2008 9:46 AM by danholme

Event Log Error

Today I had some problems with my Windows Vista computer, which were exacerbated by the fact that I could not check the System Event Log. When I clicked that node in the Event Viewer snap-in, I received the error: Event viewer cannot open the event log...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2008 4:37 PM by danholme

OU Design Example

Each time I present, at least a few people express interest in the OU design I have created for my sample domain, contoso.com or windomain.com . I've regularly been asked to provide it as an example, which I've done privately. Well, here it is...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2008 7:01 AM by danholme

Seminario SharePoint

NOTE: I apologize that the link was incorrect. It is now correct. OBRIGADO for attending the Seminario SharePoint at Microsoft on 5 May! I am grateful that you spent the day with me, and hope that you took away some useful guidance, tips and tricks, as...

Published Wed, May 05 2009 12:03 AM by danholme

What a difference three years makes: SharePoint 2010 revealed

Today at the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft unveiled SharePoint 2010 with an impressive display of functionality and confidence. The SPC was shrouded in secrecy--attendees arrived not knowing, exactly, what they would see--and Microsoft's...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2009 10:26 AM by danholme

Solution 3-5 Script Update: UDS_Folder_Provision_DFS_Extended

The script that provisions user data & settings folders failed on Windows Server 2003 R2, because DFSUTIL is not available, rather DFSCMD is available (if installed from the Support Tools). This revision updates the script to work correctly with DFSCMD....

Published Wed, Feb 02 2008 4:18 PM by admin

Filed under: User Data Settings

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