2016-07-02 05:27
Why the SharePoint 2016 MinRoles make Max SenseMicrosoft introduced the MinRole concept to the SharePoint 2016 farm setup: https://technet.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/mt346114%28v=offic… Read More
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2016-03-02 22:28
Thank you to Tobias Zimmergren for his great post on SharEPoint 2013 tools. I've taken some of his suggestions and added some of my own to this list.check out his original post here:https://… Read More
2014-10-06 06:10
So you've been getting weird DTD error messages when trying to connect to your sharepoint online tenant using Powershell? well me too! and some Fiddling gave me the solution.if you get a mes… Read More
2014-06-10 13:11
Hey folks, It's been ages since I've written on my own blog and thought I'd share one of the funkier projects I've done recently. Task:Connect ApacheDS LDAP directory to a SharePoint 2013 se… Read More
2014-06-10 13:10
So you've probably come across heaps of cool articles that show you how to create fancy rendering solutions using JS Link Templates. But every example tends to deal with only one field (Temp… Read More
2014-06-10 13:10
In this post I will share a little secret on how to fix the Search results on SharePoint 2013. ProblemWhenever Search returns a Word result, it tries to be especially clever. If it prefers t… Read More
2013-09-27 04:10
Does your mouse pointer freeze in Windows 8 regularly? Alt-Ctrl-Del will get you to the lock screen where the mouse works fine, but once you're back on the desktop app your mouse won't move?… Read More
2013-07-10 22:54
So today I passed 70-668. The PRO exam of the SharePoint 2010 Administrator series. And I can't tell you how relieved I am. I was kind of panicking about this one. Mainly because I had no id… Read More
2013-07-10 22:46
Ever come across this beauty?Sorry, something went wrongAccessing referenced file ...MasterPage.master... is not allowed because the reference is outside of the App Web. Oh, man this babe ha… Read More
2013-06-06 12:01
Some of you might have noticed that your windows explorer view is misbehaving in Office 365. Chances are you are using ADFS to sign into Office 365? Then the problem is clear :-)Windows Expl… Read More
2013-06-06 12:01
So a few weeks ago I passed the dreaded SharePoint 2013 Pro exam. And I must tell you, the panic was for naught. I expected it to be heaps tougher than the 331 predecessor. I was trying to r… Read More
2013-06-06 11:53
Hey folks,Today I sat and passed 70-331 and I was shocked. This is the first time that a SharePoint exam tests your abilities to the core. the 2003 and 2007 exams were glorified sales q… Read More
2013-06-06 11:50
Ever had the need to map a choice field to a drop down list in InfoPath?SharePoint REST API makes this super easy! gone are the days of Lookup Lists and Lookup Columns. No need to maintain t… Read More
2013-06-06 05:34
Just a heads up! SharePoint 2013 has a nasty bug which has not been fixed in the March CU.Every time you try to add an export mapping to your user profile property (especially on mobile aka… Read More
2013-03-25 08:52
This has been quite the headache for me today...A customer of ours had used an asset library for storing pictures. In theory that is no problem, except that Asset Libraries don't do thumbnai… Read More
2013-03-05 22:46
One thing to keep in mind when accessing Central Admin on SharePoint 2013 (or 2010 for that matter) remotely is that the default URL for Central Admin does not use a FQDN. It uses the s… Read More
2013-03-05 22:46
Want to display a random picture on your web page without a single line of code? Well, server side code that is?Great. thanks to the REST API in SharePoint 2010 this has become rather s… Read More
2013-03-05 22:46
Windows 7 has this really cool feature where you can integrate external search providers into your desktop search experience. If you're running SharePoint in-house you can even connect the S… Read More
2013-03-05 22:45
One of the frustrating aspects of administering SharePoint 2010 is that neither the quick launch nor the bread crumb allow you to get back to the Service App admin page that you are currentl… Read More
2013-03-05 22:45
This has been the first time for a long time where I've been chasing my own tail for hours on end. The Newsfeed simply would not load and I thought I had tried it all.90% of all p… Read More
2013-03-05 22:45
This one had me scratching my head for some while. Duplicates are not shown by default and the view duplicates link needs to be activated on the search results web part for users to be able… Read More
2013-03-05 22:45
First the good news! Shredded Storage works like a charm on SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1. I had a 7GB content db with an average of 2 versions per document (scanned pdf), which shrank right down t… Read More
2013-03-05 08:11
So you installed Windows Server 2012 x64 onto your Intel chipset Laptop using either a dual boot option or a boot to VHD scenario and the damn thing won't boot up properly?Keeps on rebo… Read More
2012-04-30 03:35
We used to have a picture of the day web part back in 2007. Why the team took it out I don't know. But hey, we now need to find our own solutions to the problem.Also, the Slideshow Web Part… Read More
2012-04-30 02:01
So you have a Lync farm and have monitoring set up. You keep the last 6 weeks worth of data for those reports but what about last year? How can you easily compare the usage and network stati… Read More
2012-03-09 22:12
Ever since I've joined Professional Advantage I have been doing lots of workshops with stakeholders and end users. And every time we unveil an issue in the trenches, which upper management h… Read More
2012-02-28 11:17
Google plays another round of peeky-boo. One moment a feature is there, the next it is gone. But only for those nasty iPhone users which they are not allowed to illegally track no more. I st… Read More
2012-02-10 12:04
I just tried the online support option while researching info on Office 365. Wow. that was an experience. First I tried to find out how much extra external users would cost, as oob&nbs&hell…Read More
2012-02-05 21:26
While researching more on Test Driven Development for SharePoint I came across a cute code duel website. The basis of this website is to write valid C# code and have the PEX engine analyse t… Read More
2011-12-29 20:59
The team at Microsoft has made a great resource available for companies planning to roll out Lync within their organization. http://lync.microsoft.com/adoption-and-training-kit Here you will… Read More
2011-12-07 01:56
[Update 7/12/2011: Found two more Lync Labs and added them to the list]Often when I teach a course students feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information bombarding them in just five d… Read More
2011-09-19 10:08
This is something that has been one of the most exciting aspects of Office 365 for me. The fast and effective way of creating an Extranet scenario without the need to worry about firewalls… Read More
2011-09-01 04:58
The best tool to test if Call Admission Control (CAC) is actually being used once you have activated it is to use the Logging tool provided with Lync. The Protocol you are interested in is P… Read More
2011-09-01 04:35
Next week I am teaching how to install and configure Lync using the material provided in the course10533 from Microsoft. Although the course has some great stuff, it misses out on the really… Read More
2011-09-01 04:34
It is my pleasure to announce the newest course offering by Equinox in Wellington:http://www.equinox.co.nz/training/Pages/CourseDescriptions/sharepoint-information-architecture-introduction… Read More
2011-09-01 04:34
One of the probably most famous and useful navigation resource is the London Underground map. It is truly a masterpiece of navigational aid and has hardly changed since its inception. When r… Read More
2011-09-01 04:34
In his article, What NOT to migrate into SharePoint Joel identifies the usual suspects of types of files which are not suited to be stored in SharePoint or any DMS system for that matter.Whi… Read More
2011-09-01 04:34
You'd think it to be really easy to find good information on enabling RBS for additional content databases out there. But if you landed on this blog post, then you were proven wrong, like so… Read More
2011-09-01 04:34
Totally forgot to post the fourth post in the series. If you want to earn your sharepoint 2010 professional developer credential then you'll also need to pass this exam. Measureup does not h… Read More
2011-09-01 04:34
This will be one of the most anticipated admin and dev tools released for SharePoint this year. It will come bundled with the updated version of the administrator toolkit for Share… Read More
2011-09-01 04:34
Fellow MCTs,I am posting this for the benefit of those MCTs who have not figured out that there is a whole wiki page at http://borntolearn.mslearn.net on this course once you log i… Read More
2011-09-01 04:34
Thank God, Microsoft Learning is fixing the date issue on the 10232 virtual machines. Looks like this time they didn't get away with "it is not broken, it is by design". So if you are planni… Read More
2011-09-01 04:33
yesterday I posted about using Asterisk with Lync. Today I will share my configuration files for getting 2Talk up and running with the latest version of Asterisk 1.6:Effectively there are tw… Read More
2011-09-01 04:33
Just after my last class today I though I'd copy the asterisk box from the presenter machine to my backup drive. I was shocked to see a 44GB file! Obviously there was some logging probl… Read More
2011-09-01 04:31
Introductionin Lync 2010 you can use the web interface to create Interactive Response Groups with up to four possible answers and up to two levels of nested questions. Should you want to add… Read More
2011-03-18 05:41
A few years ago I demonstrated at the New Zealand Conference how to add custom metadata columns to your search results. What I never did was make a blog post about it. So let me rectify that… Read More
2011-03-10 01:41
Just had the pleasure of viewing one of the new 777-300 planes from Air New Zealand. A lot of good things and a few bad things to comment on:Great:Arm rests fold up in economy. Great if trav… Read More
2011-02-16 00:28
Who has once in their life had the inner desire to change the world? You know - , when you were a kid -, that innocent wish for world peace?Or better yet… who has never hoped to chang… Read More
2011-01-27 19:52
The team at Microsoft Learning have realised that YouTube is a much better channel for on-line video based learning than hosting them on their own sites. I totally agree! subscribe… Read More
2010-09-30 05:53
I love Microsoft. No where can you expect a definitive answer. The one article will tell you that the acceptable limit for site collections per web application is 500'000 (http://technet.mic… Read More
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