RDP Tool - Royal TS

Royal TS is an administrative tool that I don’t think I could live without. I read about it several years back in Windows IT Pro and since then it has been my RDP connection of choice.

This tool shows its true potential when you have many different servers to manage. The features that I like the best are the ability to group connections, save credentials, and edit multiple connections at once.

It is an opensource application so the price is right too! Check it out.

Enable Detailed Error Messages in SharePoint

Often times people will cause errors in SharePoint when doing some advanced editing of web parts. The error message that is displayed is very generic and does not give any technical information. To display the technical details, the SharePoint administrator has to do the following:

1. On the IIS server (web server) navigate to the virtual directories (default is c:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\, but a "good" installation will be in a different place (Hopefully a drive other than the system partition)
2. Open the Web.Config file in a text editor (most times notpad.exe, but I recommend NotePad2)
3. Search (find in notepad) for the safemode tag using "CallStack" and change the CallStack status to trueCallStack="true" DirectFileDependencies="10" TotalFileDependencies="50" AllowPageLevelTrace="false">
4. Search for the CustomErrors tag and set the mode to Offmode="Off" />
5. Save and close.

This will then show detailed error messages. One thing to note, is that "Off" is case-sensitive. If at all possible, you should only do this in a non-production environment. ALso, highly recommend making a backup of the web.config file before you modify it. Often times I will copy the web.config file then copy it back to put the settings back to default.