Atlanta .NET Regular Guys

Community Blog for two guys in Atlanta that focus on Microsoft and Community.

Quick About

This is the community blog for Brendon Schwartz and Matt Ranlett.  If you want to see their technical posts visit http://www.sharepointguys.com

Back To DevCow

Recent Posts

Tags

Email Notifications

    Archives

    Browse by Tags

    All Tags » Technical (RSS)
    WebVisions: Atlanta Web and User Experience conference–Nov 17-18
    Webvisions is bringing its three city US conference to Atlanta on November 17th and 18th at the GA Tech hotel and conference center. Costs under $450 to attend with several pricing options available. Web & Mobile Design, Technology and UX Conference...
    Using SharePoint 2010 to host video files? Be Permissive!
    If you’re using SharePoint 2010 document libraries to host wmv video files and you’re NOT using the native SharePoint Silverlight video player to display them, or if you’re placing flash .SWF files in document libraries, pay attention.  SharePoint...
    Prepare for the first Windows Phone 7 update
    Microsoft has just released a Zune (PC client) update which upgrades the Windows Mobile Device Updater component. This is in anticipation of the soon (we hope) to arrive Windows Phone 7 update code named “NoDo” MSFT Social Forums post announcing...
    Microsoft Project 2010 fails to install if SharePoint Designer 2007 is installed
    What the heck?  I just got an error message telling me that I am unable to install the 64 bit version of Office 2010 b/c I have a 32 bit Office product installed.  The odd thing is that I have a 64 bit version of Office 2010 installed already...
    A threefer at the Atlanta MS Pros User Group meeting tonight
    Logan Gray ( @intensetech ) of Intense Tech Inc ( www.intensetech.com ) gave the first of three presentations tonight.  Focusing on Windows Home Server , Logan tried really hard to convince everyone that this is the next technology purchase they...
    Debugging a WCF Data Services problem
    I was asked to help out with a problem with the deployment of a multi-tiered application from the development environment (where everything works) to the QA environment.  The basic issue is that where everything works in the development environment...
    Darrin Bishop intros P&P Guidance for SharePoint Development
    At tonight’s Atlanta SharePoint User Group ( #atlspug ), Darrin Bishop ( @bishopd ) introduced us to the Microsoft developer guidance for SharePoint 2010 developers developed by the Patterns and Practices group. For the uninitiated, this is a fantastic...
    Hot Tip from John Ramminger @ Abel Solutions
    John Ramminger ( @johnram ) from Abel Solutions piped up during a discussion of the downloadable Microsoft HyperV SharePoint 2010 image and mentioned that the WinImage tool can be used to convert the HyperV machine to a VMWare .vmdk. As a lover of VMWare...
    Failure when installing Cisco VPN client on Windows 7
    I was trying to install the Cisco VPN client in order to connect to some client systems when I ran into an ominous installer error message. Boatloads of bad advice on the Internet later, I believe I’ve located the solution. Error message: Error...
    Posted: 06-30-2010 2:27 PM by Matt Ranlett
    Filed under:
    Protecting SharePoint with System Center Data Protection Manager
    This is one of those posts where the main target is myself. Today a coworker of mine ran into some trouble getting SC DPM to install properly. The problem turned out to be a permissions issue which is detailed on a TechNet page that seems to be a bit...
    Don Browning shows Visual Studio 2010 to the Atlanta Microsoft Professionals
    Don Browning from Turner Broadcasting came out of the fun buildings which bring you the Cartoon Network (and those other channels) to talk to the group about the new architecture features of Visual Studio 2010.  Those changes include: 6 new designers...
    Microsoft Surface-like technology as a portable cellphone add-on
    All I can say is “Holy cow, when can I have this?”  Oh, and I’ll pay the $350 for that device! http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/481 Truly awesome stuff coming out of the MIT Media Lab Thanks go out to Joris for showing me this video
    Posted: 03-28-2009 8:35 PM by Matt Ranlett | with no comments
    Filed under:
    Awesome iPhone game earns my money
    I bought an iPhone game today – an awesome game called Crayon Physics Deluxe. This little app is incredibly cool. You get to draw shapes and lines with your finger and have these amazing Rube Goldberg Crayola machines spring into action. I showed...
    Migrate SharePoint 2007 content between farms effortlessly
    I love it when tools work exactly right.  This was so simple to do once I had the tool installed correctly I just had to blog about it. I was faced with the requirement of migrating SOME but not all of the lists and document libraries from one SharePoint...
    Citrix + VMWare = No Go!
    Here’s an annoying bug I encountered.  Don’t know if this impacts anyone else, but my 5 second search attempt yielded no results so I thought I’d throw this out there for the world to read. If you have an open Citrix Metaframe connection to a remote...
    Posted: 02-12-2009 11:44 PM by Matt Ranlett | with 1 comment(s)
    Filed under:
    More Posts Next page »