July 2008 - Posts

30 July 2008
Site Policies and FBA in SharePoint: Update
My apologies to Craig, who posted a comment to my earlier post about our FBA problems and I didn't notice until today. To update you all on the situation, the fault is still with Microsoft and I have not yet received a hotfix. However, for anybody considering FBA in their deployment, I would not... Read More...
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22 July 2008
Life with a Diamond: nearly two weeks on
I said I'd post again once I'd had the Diamond a little while. It's now been two weeks and I can honestly say I'm completely happy with it. Battery life for me is fine - I charge it about every three days and it chugs along with exchange push pretty much constantly. I am quite comfortable... Read More...
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14 July 2008
Workflow and SQL Error: Update
I posted last week about a couple of issues we were experiencing with SharePoint. I made some traction on the Workflow History issue at the end of last week and the revelation was pretty far-reaching, so I'm posting again. It turns out that the stuff I said about systemupdate was wrong... up to a... Read More...
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14 July 2008
Touch Diamond Battery Life
In my last post about the Diamond I said I would let you know what the battery life is. I therefore carefully refrained from giving it any charge over the weekend, even when connected to my PC. That means that it received no power from 5.30pm on Friday until it died (which it did, eventually). After... Read More...
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12 July 2008
blogging on the move: redux
Richard's little mobile blogging app is nice, but he isn't that responsive to user requests (ie, mine!) so I thought I would see if anything else was out there. Sadly, the answer appears to be 'not really' However, I did come across Diarist, from Kevin Daly. Perhaps not surprisingly I... Read More...
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12 July 2008
My Orange Diamond is... err... black
That might sound like a strange thing to say, but when my shiny new Touch Diamond, which I picked up from Orange this week, has no Orange branding or customisation of the UI. I hadn't really noticed that until I went into the manual, where the screenshots are totally different from my phone. I was... Read More...
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11 July 2008
HTC Touch Diamond on Orange
Thanks to the advanced notice from Tracy and Matt's blog , I picked up my HTC Touch Diamond yesterday from the Orange Store and it's great! 'But wait!' I hear you cry, 'didn't he go on about the experia x1 and how he wanted one ?' Well, yes, I did. I admit it - I am fickle... Read More...
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05 July 2008
Useful .Net Search and Replace tool
I need to update something like 300 web.config files today, with the same change in each. I turned to my old friend Google for his recommendations and up popped a magnificent free tool from Nodesoft . Why magnificent? It's advanced mode allows you to specify start and end tags and update everything... Read More...
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03 July 2008
Congratulations Richard!
Well done Richard , who has been given the accolade of Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Visual Studio Team System. Read More...
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03 July 2008
Workflow History and SQL Error
When trying to view an item in a list which has workflows run against it, you get an error: Some part of your SQL statement is nested too deeply. Rewrite the query or break it up into smaller queries Problem Background Trying to explain the exact nature of our configuration in this case would break many... Read More...
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03 July 2008
Comment Spam and Contacting Me
You may have noticed that I have disabled comments on my old posts. You may also have noticed that I have now disabled the Contact Me function on my blog. Why? Comment spam, and more recently, a huge influx of spam via the contact form. I will try to find a solution via some kind of community server... Read More...
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03 July 2008
CITP
Received in an email today from the BCS: I am delighted to inform you that your application for Chartered IT Professional (CITP) status has been successful. Read More...
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03 July 2008
Problems with Site Policies and FBA in SharePoint 2007
If you are using Forms Based Authentication and try to access Site Policies you may well find that you get an Access Denied response. If you do, this post will help you! I've been meaning to post this for a while because I'm sure it may help somebody. As usual, it's been pushed back and back... Read More...
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