During my training in SharePoint I’ve been tasked with scripting an install of SharePoint. I know that there are other installers out there, but I wanted to learn as much as I could about installing it the ‘hard’ way. I had most of my 2 server farm installed and working without touching the GUI once. (Well OK, just …

Hopefully you should not notice, but we have moved this Blog Server from using Community Server 2007 to BlogEngine.NET. We have been busy bring over all the content so any search should still return the same page, but it might take a few days. I will be posting on my experiences as soon as I have my notes sorted. THE …

This is the blog of Richard Fennell, I am the Engineering Director of the Black Marble Ltd a Microsoft Gold Partner based in the North of England. Black Marble specialises in BizTalk & SharePoint based business automation. As Engineering Director I am responsible for the delivery of systems and tools to allow my …

Since the Summer of 2015 I have been storing any slides and samples for my public presentations on a GitHub repo, feel free to download them. The following are recordings of presentations I have made. Hopefully all the links are still active, but remember the external sites are not under my control Title Event Year …

Eagerly anticipating our Architecture Forum in the North – now in its fourth year! Taking place on 8 December here in Yorkshire, it is shaping up to be a great day! We have a great range of speakers lined up and this is a sample of what you can expect from some of the Microsoft Speakers: Andrew Fryer – Technical …

We love Christmas at Black Marble and our Black Marble Christmas Adventure has already begun – please follow the adventure online to find out what peril has befallen Santa this time, and how the team can save him! Our website has it’s Christmas style on - and our office is decorated from top to bottom! Advent calendars …

The Today programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning had a section on children not being taught computer science. so says a variety of employers who cannot find the staff they need. It seems entry to Computer Sciences degrees has been dropping over the years and the current ICT course at school are to blame. I was at school …

I had a problem with my LG E900 WP7 phone over the weekend, Outlook stopped synchronising with our office Exchange server. It started when I got back from a trip Ireland. My phone switched back from roaming and started to use 3G for data again, as opposed to WIFI. Also over the weekend we had a connectivity problem …

I did a post at the start of the year about Lab management and VLAN tags, how they are not supported, but you can work around the problems. Over the past few months we have split our old Hyper-V cluster into one for production and one for test/lab development. This gave our IT team a chance to look at the VLAN problem …

Typemock have recently released a new version of Isolator, 6.2. As well as the usual fixes and enhancements you would expect, this is the first version to support TFS 2010 team build out the box. Prior to this release Typemock supported MSBuild based TFS builds (2005/2008) but not the Windows Workflow based version in …