It seems I missed it when Microsoft published the SPModule PowerShell module to aid in a scripted installation of a SharePoint 2010 farm.
If anything, it can serve as a handy guide for how to script out individual actions pertaining to installation and farm maintenance.
Microsoft currently has a slew of updates available for Silverlight. If, like me, you don’t want to see/install Silverlight on your production servers (SQL/DC/DNS/etc.), you will find that it is not as easy as hiding one update. Thankfully, the fix is to continue hiding updates.
After KB974331 has been hidden, Silverlight will continue to show as an available optional update, until the following updates are hidden as well:
Yes, that is a total of 7 updates that need to be hidden to no longer be nagged to install Silverlight.
Microsoft recently recently released/pushed out a new add-on for interacting with Netflix, allowing for the viewing of “instant” movies from within the Media Center 10ft. UI.
One quirk that you may run into is that videos are not playing after installation. You might need to break out the keyboard, as Silverlight will have opened a dialog behind the Media Center window asking you to enable protected content. Once that hurdle is crossed, it should be smooth sailing.
Netflix in Windows Media Center
[Microsoft Windows: Netflix in Windows Media Center]
[via Hacking Netflix]
I recently ran into a strange quirk/bug when setting a target audience on a web part. In the particular site collection where the web part resides, a number of cross-site groups exist.
For the sake of example, imagine that the site collection has several cross-site groups with simlar names. Ex:
When targeting the web part to either the IT Designers or IT Administrators cross-site group, the web part is able to correctly apply the audience. However, when the IT group is used, the web part configuration for audiences is unable to determine the correct group when the web part is rendered on the page.
It would appear that when selecting a target audience (if it is a SharePoint group), the group name must be unique and not contain a portion of another group name. In my case, while the IT group name is unique, the IT Designers and IT Administrators groups also contain the string “IT”.