Activesync meets your file server

Received notification today for the next Adelaide Windows User Group and was intrigued by the topic, Work Folders in Windows 2012 R2.

The link included in the meeting notice was a Technet article and it seems to be a very useful feature.

It sounds like the Microsoft ActiveSync for Exchange Team had a beer with the File Services team and basically come up with a feature that is like an ActiveSync like connection to a file server.

It can enforce encryption and lock screen passwords on supported devices.

I am looking forward to the meeting and finding out more about the feature as I can some valuable se for this in the context of BYOD (Bring your Own Device) and also non domain devices like IOS (so hoping for an IOS App is available!)

Search Query Topology stuck at deactivating

Consultant working with us removed a Web Front End server from our SharePoint 2010 farm before removing a query component assigned to that server (query component is on all our web front ends)

This lead to an issue with errors being logged about the query component in the event log:

Log Name: ApplicationSource: Microsoft-SharePoint Products-SharePoint Server SearchEvent ID: 2587Description:The following conditions are currently affecting index propagation to this server for search service application 'Search Service': 1. Query 3 has been disabled so that crawls can continue. It may be recovered via the Restart-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryComponent command in PowerShell.

We then removed the query component from the search topology.
However there was a SQL permission issue as well in the background (still not 100% sure of the cause of that yet)

I found that the old top[ology was stuck at deactivating by using the poweshell command 

GET-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication | GET-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryTopology 

The event log errors continued and laso in the ULS log we were getting a lot errors in the SharePoint 2010 search area.

Unable to find server  

Found great article at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint_strategery/archive/2013/05/19/sp2010-troubleshooting-serverid-mismatch-deleting-components.aspx

Which mentioned to do a index reset.  

Great script I found at http://get-spscripts.com/2012/02/resetting-sharepoint-2010-search-index.html which I reporduced below was awesome at resetting the index

#Get the search service application
#You will need to specify the -Identity switch and a name if you have more than one
$sa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication

#Reset index with the following options in brackets:
#Disable Alerts $true/$false
#Ignore unreachable server $true/$false
try
{
    Write-Host "Attempting to reset the index...please wait"
    $sa.Reset($false, $false)
    Write-Host "Index successfully reset" -ForegroundColor Blue
}
catch
{
    Write-Host "There was a problem resetting the index:" $_ -ForegroundColor Red
}

After the index reset  the topology was inactive so I could then simply use the command

GET-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication | GET-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryTopology | where {$_.Id -eq "2598bfd7-2e73-4f20-ace9-fc8c92010c88"} | Remove-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryTopology

Setting Time on a Reebook S Pulse Heart Rate Watch

1. Press and keep Holding the Mode button until the time display starts to flash.
2. When it starts flashing then again press the mode button till the time section that you want to correct would flash , i.e. either hours , minutes or seconds.
3. To move the time up or down, you can use the start/stop and reset buttons.
4. After you have set the time, press and hold the mode button till the time everything stops flashing and comes back to normal mode.