This article is a re-post of the article I authored for MSSharePointTips which can be found here: MSSharePointTips Article This article primarily applies to SharePoint 2010 (Foundation or Server). For SharePoint 2007, skip to the bottom. What? Automating SharePoint installation means performing a series of steps to setup your SharePoint Farm without user interaction. There [...]
In a very recent post, I showed you a script written in Visual BASIC (vbs) to have your log file emailed to you on a schedule. This script didn’t work for me on my Windows Server 2008 machines. I got the error “Reportlog.vbs:(52,2). CDO.Message.1: The transport failed to connect to the server.” I later confirmed [...]
This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Free SharePoint BackupsThis is the 3rd article of the Free SharePoint Backups series. If you haven’t already, check out: Article 1: Back up Site Collections automatically. Article 2:Perform a Farm-level backup automatically. In the 3rd article, we’ll talk about some of the other things that [...]
This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Free SharePoint BackupsIn the first article, I showed you one way to use a Windows script, batch file and task scheduler to perform a backup of each Site Collection in your farm. Next up: Backing up the entire farm This is really very simple. As [...]
This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Free SharePoint Backups I’ll be writing a series of 4 articles on how to backup SharePoint for free. In future articles we’ll discuss backing up different components you may need to perform a disaster recovery or a simple backup. These are “okay” backup solutions and [...]