Dan B. Lee

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Reducing the size of the winsxs folder

Posted on February 9th, 2012 by Dan B. Lee

We generally keep the OS partition of our VMs as small as possible. Windows 2008 is great in that we can always increase the size of a drive later on, need be. When our monitors alerted us about low disk space on our vCenter Server I was a little confused. The vCenter server doesn’t do [...]

Moving WSS 3.0 Sharepoint Databases

Posted on December 6th, 2011 by Dan B. Lee

How to move a WSS 3.0 Sharepoint Database from one location to another Like it or not, if you install Windows Sharepoint Services the databases will end up on the same drive as your install by default. Sometimes you may need to move the databases that Sharepoint uses. For example, I needed to move a [...]