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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! I’m trying to install Microsoft Project 2010...
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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 need to make. Find an example ready-built HP...
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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, the QA environment is rejecting connection requests...
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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 set of guidance and reference applications...
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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, I can’t wait to try this out!
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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 27850. Unable to manage networking component. Operating...
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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 disconnected from the rest of the directions. Matt...
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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 case model – a visual view of user stories (including...
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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
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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 this to a few co-workers and they’re off to...
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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 2007 farm to another SharePoint 2007 farm...
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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 machine and you try to fire up a VMWare Workstation...
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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 some deep and deeply complex user interfaces. Others...
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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 one). Your Windows Live ID can be used for a multitude...
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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 Viagra sales! Nice.