How to backup WSS 3.0 automatically

So how do you backup WSS 3.0 automatically? Well you know you can go into the operations center and backup manually, by setting the destination. However this will not automatically backup your sharepoint farm on a daily basis. There is a simple command to backup your sharepoint farm via command line. Once you have a command line then you can create a batch file and backup however your...

How to start a full crawl on sharepoint

If you trying to get sharepoint to start a full crawl of your site, or you need to diagnose a problem you have to wait for sharepoint to start it’s full crawl interval. However with the below command you have it start immediately. Stsadm -o spsearch -action...

How to access embedded SQL on WSS 3.0

I wanted to access the SQL databases on my WSS 3.0 server, however I was using the embedded edition of SQL. So I downloaded SQL Management Server studio, but I couldn’t still access the databases. It kept saying it can’t make a remote connection to the server though I was trying to access it via local to the machine. Then I found this.  Type it in as the server name, and...

iPhone Jailbreak for 3.1.3 is here!

The iPhone spirit Jailbreak for 3.1.3 is here. Much thanks goes to the Dev Team and @comex for this release. Works on iPhone 3G, 3GS, and the iPad. Jailbreak is very easy, attach your iphone or ipad and click jailbreak that’s it. Below are the screenshots for the mac version of spirit. The download links for Windows and Mac are below. 1. Download link for iPhone Spirit...

Reboot your server remotely with IPMI using Dell’s BMC

I bought a new poweredge T110 server, it came with BMC (Baseboard management controller) already installed. I needed to reboot the system, because it was unresponsive (Windows 2008 server crashed). However I can’t RDP into it, and I’m not at the site where the physical machine is located. All I needed was someone to power cycle it, but no one was available. That’s when I did...