Access Denied when Enabling PowerShell Remoting
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Quick tip: Are you receiving Access Denied messages when you are attempting to run the Enable-PSRemoting cmdlet? I’ve received them on machines connected to a domain, even when I’m running in an elevated PowerShell window. An easy trick is to open a PowerShell window as the built-in administration account on the machine. Not sure why, but for whatever reason, it seems to work!
VirtualBox Unidentified Network
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Thanks to Oisin Grehan and his Nivot Ink blog for providing the foundation of this post!
VMWare VMNET Adapters Triggering Public Profile for Windows Firewall
I use Oracle’s VirtualBox to run x64 SharePoint virtual machines from my laptop. I’ve also noticed an Unidentified Network in my Windows 7 list of networks. That is caused by VirtualBox’s Host-Only Network Adapter. It wasn’t harming anything at the time so I left it alone.
However, I later attempt to enable PowerShell remoting on my host laptop for work with SharePoint scripting. Upon doing so, I was greeted with the following error message while attempting the Enable-PSRemoting cmdlet:
Set-WSManQuickConfig : WinRM firewall exception will not work since one of the network connection types on this machine is set to Public. Change the network connection type to either Domain or Private and try again.
IIS Termination during Visual Studio Debugging
Thursday, January 26, 2012
What a familiar situation: You are debugging a SharePoint solution (or any ASP.NET code) and have Visual Studio attached to IIS. As you are stepping through your code, checking variables and getting a lot done, all of the sudden you are presented with the following message:
The web server process that was being debugged has been terminated by Internet Information Services (IIS). This can be avoided by configuring Application Pool ping settings in IIS. See help for further details.
Managing Customizations to ASP.NET & SharePoint Browser Definitions
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
This post suggests best practices for managing customizations made to ASP.NET and SharePoint browser definition files.
Expanding Warm Up Script Triggers
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
This post is a follow up to a post I wrote a few months ago around triggering a warm up script for SharePoint to execute only when a specific application pool is recycled. You may want to read that post before this one: “Application Pool”-Specific Warm Up Scripts
After using what I recommended in the previous post, I realized there were still issues with this approach. To step back and explain the larger picture, I had a scenario where I needed to execute a warm up script whenever the application pool was freshly started. The script is responsible for filling application-level cache. Therefore, I want to execute the script any time the application pool will be freshly started. This means not just when it is recycled, but also in instances like server reboots. I have previously described how to do this using the Windows Task Scheduler to trigger the script to execute based on certain events being logged.