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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 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...
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
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...
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...
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...
User Interface design sessions typically start on a white board if everyone can be in the room together, but what's the next step? How do you capture that UI mockup effectively and modify it according to user feedback? Some folks turn to Visio for...
Figure 1 - SkyDrive home page Windows Live SkyDrive is an online file storage and sharing system which can be used to replace a traditional FTP server. http://skydrive.live.com Sign in with a Windows Live ID (you can create one if you don’t already have...
Did you know that if you start the DNS client service on a Windows Server 2003 box, that it will ignore entries in a hosts file and proceed out to the Internet to resolve the name? THAT was fun during a demo. http://publishing.sample.com takes you to...
I found this today while trying to talk a friend through the administration of her wireless Linksys router. Linksys has put an online representation of all of their devices' admin applications across all the versions on this site - http://ui.linksys...
If you are adding web front ends to a farm, be sure your app server and web front ends are at the same code base or you may experience failures trying to run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard. Our farm had hotfixes 313243 and 316200 applied to the application...
You tell them to do things and they partly do it. My gripe with MakeCab is that the files in the CBA archive (or wsp) don't use the same date stamp as what Windows Explorer uses. Building a DLL and as part of a post-build step you're putting the...
I've been working recently on a lot of code which needed debugging inside of SharePoint. One of the frustrating aspects of SharePoint development is the annoying debugging story. Click Debug, click Attach to Process, click your desired process(es...
If you are creating an externally accessible portal or extranet with SharePoint which uses Forms based authentication, business requirements such as Search and ECM Publishing might require you to create an intranet portal which uses NTLM or Kerberos authentication...
I've finally finished (almost) with the project that has been keeping me up late at night. I want to thank Doug Ware , Brendon Schwartz , Dan Attis , and Adam Buenz for all the help they gave me over the past several months while I struggled to bring...
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