Frustrating errors with little or no explanation…
Once again I find myself wiring a blog post in order to save people the time we spent figuring out what was going on and getting help with our fault.
We have Microsoft Threat Management Gateway installed at our perimeter. The Exchange 2010 Edge Connector is also …
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Last week was really exciting for me and my colleagues here at Black …
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This is a torrid tale of frustration and annoyance, tempered by the fun of digging through system commands and registry entries to try and get things working.
We’ve been restructuring our network at Black Marble. The old single subnet was creaking and we were short of addresses so we decided to subnet …
Read More- When migrating from SharePoint 2007 to 2010, no matter how hard you try there’s always the chance the the content database upgrade process will throw out errors about features being referenced that are not present in the farm. We have used Stefan Goßner’s WssAnalyzeFeatures and WSSRemoveFeatureFromSite (see his …
Read More - We’re working on a solution at the moment that uses a custom site definition. For various reasons we stated with the Blank Site definition and worked from there. Our customisations include content types using custom columns that link to managed metadata term sets. We create all those through features – great! The …
Read More - On the 17th of November I’ll be keeping Richard company on the drive up to Newcastle to speak at the NEBytes user group. My session will be a shortened version of the Using SharePoint for Content publishing I will deliver at the Black Marble event on November 3rd. I will be showing what can be done with SharePoint 2010 …
Read More This blog has been a very quiet place for a long time now, reflecting somewhat how busy I have been elsewhere. During this period of heavy work I have found a new friend in my Aspire 1420Tp In some ways it’s sad – my trusty and reliable Dell Mini 9 has been neglected in favour of a younger, sexier model.
Read More- User profile photos have changed in SharePoint 2010 in that they are now stored in a single image library in the MySite Host root site collection. They have also changed in that when you change the profile photo, SharePoint takes the file and creates three new images at specific sizes, then discards the file you gave …
Read More Stepping along the path ploughed by Richard and Robert, I thought I’d try to order my thoughts on the BCS EGM through a blog post. Like Richard, I am (as I begin writing) uncertain as to my final leaning on this, although I have clear views on some of the issues.
Democracy In Action
One of the most important, in my …
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