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TimeKeeper over subnets

If you use Kronos TimeKeeper on a large network, you’ve probably had issues with running it in different subnets or VLANs. It says that it can’t find the database even though you have mapped the necessary drives. I’ve had those very issues, but apparently, TimeKeeper doesn’t have a way to fix it. I found a way today.

The best I can figure, TimeKeeper sends out a broadcast packet during the install to find out where the server is. On a subnetted network, this won’t help. TimeKeeper creates several ODBC entries during the install. In these entries, you manually specify the the server IP address. Go to SystemDSN in the ODBC control panel options. You will see three entries for TimeKeeper. Edit each one, and on the Network tab, add Host=[ipaddress] to the TCP/IP options where [ipaddress] is the IP address of the server TimeKeeper is installed. It should work beautifully after that.

Upgrade from SharePoint Services 3.0 to SharePoint Foundation 2010 in 10 Steps

*Edit [11/23/2011]: Alright, if you tried these instructions before now, they probably didn’t work. I attempted this again, and found a lot of mistakes. I am reworking this now, and will be doing this one more time for good, so I might make a few more minor changes.

I recently needed to move a SPS 3.0 server to a new Foundation 2010 server. Now, Microsoft posts several documents on how to do this, but I think we all know that their documents aren’t always that helpful. I first tried to move the Sharepoint to another server, then do an updgrade, but it did not go so smoothly. So I tried it again using the “database attach” method. I did a lot of Googling, and tried an unbelievable number of things before I finally got the upgrade to work. I’ve collected my steps here. Hopefully, I remembered everything correctly. There were what seemed like a lot of steps, but it mostly went smoothly. Read on for my guide to upgraded to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and I hope it helps you with your upgrade. Continue reading →