Resetting The Raiser’s Edge Password

I notice that Blackbaud now has a utility out that handles Supervisor password resets without going through the faxing rigamarole, but when I had to do this I don’t know if that would have been a big help anyway as my customer A) Needed supervisor access to Raiser’s Edge right away and B) They had fired the . . . → Read More: Resetting The Raiser’s Edge Password

Forefront TMG IP Issue

I typically have two issues that I run into with our Forefront TMG (aka ISA 2010) proxy server:

I have certain blocks of IP addresses blocked on the Cisco firewall and occasionally a user will repeatedly hit a website that sits in one of those blocks.  I will then have to find out who . . . → Read More: Forefront TMG IP Issue

Migrating from 32bit SharePoint Services

This is my definitive guide on migrating from 32 bit Windows SharePoint Services 3 to SharePoint Foundation 2010 (64 bit only, oof!).  It’s not quite as definitive as I would like as I barely had time to work this through once, let alone multiple times:

I changed the user account that runs WSS3 from . . . → Read More: Migrating from 32bit SharePoint Services

SQL Express Upgrade Error

I went to upgrade my old MSDE database to SQL 2005 Express on our McAfee EPO server and I was receiving a ‘-1′ error during the upgrade process with the detail of:

You selected Mixed Mode authentication, but did not provide a strong password. To continue you must provide a strong sa password.

I . . . → Read More: SQL Express Upgrade Error