Stuck On the Domain!

Today, I had a problem where one of my Server Core machines would not leave the domain. I was having other issues and needed to get the machine off of the domain, but throughout my troubleshooting, I got a number of different errors. The machine just wouldn’t leave the domain!

Or at least not until I found the netdom.exe utility. This tool can be used to perform a number of different domain administration tasks but for my purposes, I was interested in the following:

netdom remove <hostname> /domain:<domainname> /force

I ran this command on the offending server itself. The “/force” switch made all the difference in the world and after a short wait, my server was domain-free.

Scary Error Messages

When my Hyper-V cluster had a host go down and I went to log into its Virtual Console (which I happened to have on my screen already), I got a scary error message:

 

 

It isn’t TRUE, but it sure is scary. It hasn’t been deleted, it’s been moved!

F5 Big-IP: URI Caching Not Working

I’m in the midst of configuring an F5 Big-IP 1600 for load balancing, single sign on and some performance improvements. I was having a problem where a SharePoint site wasn’t running any faster in spite of the fact that I was doing URI caching AND WebAccelerator.

 

After disabling WebAccelerator, URI caching started to work. I still don’t understand why this is.

SharePoint 2010: How to Give Yourself Access

Today, I was asked to change some user permissions on a site. I was a domain admin but had no other privileges that would help me along the way. Importantly, this meant I didn’t have the permissions needed to change some user permissions on the site.

How did I get said permissions?

I changed the password on the account of someone who DID have permissions and used that account. Lame, I know. I didn’t really do much troubleshooting, either, but this was a quick solution.

UPDATE: This looks a bit more proper. I haven’t read through it, but it seems relevant.

http://blog.falchionconsulting.com/index.php/2007/09/add-site-administrator/

UPDATE 2: With much thanks to the above link:

IF:

- You have access to a SharePoint Farm’s Central Administration console

AND:

- You do NOT have permissions on a given site but NEED such permissions

The SOLUTION is:

- Application Management, Site Collections, Manage Site Collection Administrators

- Add yourself as either the primary or secondary site administrator

There is no way to simply grant yourself fine-grained permissions- you’ve got to make yourself one of “The” administrators of the site, and you can only have two such administrators.