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: In particular, many users would like to remove the Workspace field from …

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: It should however be noted that a number of Service Application communication schemes run …

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 …

Building a Hyper-V virtual machine from scratch almost always seems to involve mounting an ISO image at some point during the installation process. I suspect that like us, many other organisations already have a network location in which we store ISO images. The ability to mount an ISO image from our usual network …

Those of you who know me or Rik will know that we’re both very keen on Windows Home Server. I’ve seen some time related issues with my Home Server recently, with message in the event log telling me that the time of the system (which seems to drift more than I’d like) could not be updated due to a variety of issues. …

On the face of it, renaming the Managed Metadata Service Application database in SharePoint should be a fairly simple matter. There’s a test box for the database name in the properties of the Service Application and changing the name shown changes the database name. There are however one or two issues with changing the …

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 …

We’ve seen a couple of issues with a StarTech InfoSave 4-bay external hard drive enclosure (model SAT3540U2E) when trying to change the connection mode from USB to eSATA. Specifically, when following the instructions (which appear to state for example that when an eSATA connection is detected, the eSATA LED will light) …