Extending some of the default content types available in SharePoint 2010 can result in unwanted fields being shown. An example is extending the 'Event' default content type, which has three fields attached which you don't seem to be able to edit:

The default communication scheme for many of the SharePoint 2010 Service Applications is ‘http’ (i.e. unsecured). This can be changed easily in the GUI by selecting the service application and clicking the ‘publish’ ribbon button:

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Tuesday’s IT Camp in Leeds was great fun and introduced lots of people to Hyper-V.

The day itself was very different to the normal events that we’ve seen or been part of; I think I counted two PowerPoint slides during the entire event! The attendees were given the opportunity to try out Microsoft’s Hyper-V Server …

Office 2007/2010 format documents stored in SharePoint 2010 which have their title field populated show an incorrect title in the default search results. The screen shot below shows the search results for the following document:

Filename: Test document 1.docx
Title: Test Document 1 Title
First line of document: First …

I recently updated my Nokia Lumia 800 to the latest build, 1600.2483.8106.11500.

I’ve been keeping an eye on the battery capacity of my Lumia 800 following the reported battery charging issues using the phone diagnostics (which can be accessed by entering ##634# on the phone keypad, then from the list of applications …

SharePoint can use multiple domains for user authentication, however I recently came across an issue when setting up an extranet using this scenario.

The steps for setting up SharePoint 2007 to use multiple domains for user authentication are relatively simple:

• Add the second domain as a user profile source in the SSP …