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Six tips when deploying SharePoint 2013 masterpages, page layouts and display templates
Rik Hepworth Feb 3, 2014 · 6 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I’ve been hat-swapping again since just before christmas (which explains the lack of Azure IaaS posts I’m afraid). I’ve been working on a large SharePoint 2013 project, most lately on customising a number of elements around publishing. Getting those custom elements into SharePoint from my solution raised a number of …
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BlogEngine.Net automatically tweeting on new posts
Rik Hepworth Jan 27, 2014 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I sadly miss Twitter Notify, the plugin for Windows Live Writer that would tweet when I published a new post. Fortunately, there are a couple of plugins for BlogEngine.Net that purport to do the same thing. I’ve just deployed SocialPublish to our server. Configuration is a bit fiddly, and I’m not sure yet how well it …
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Living with the Dell Venue 8 Pro
Rik Hepworth Jan 26, 2014 · 10 min read · Uncategorised ·
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Some time ago I wrote about how disappointed I was with the Acer W3 tablet. I really wanted that small form factor …

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Dealing with AD sync issues in an Azure hybrid deployment
Rik Hepworth Nov 5, 2013 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I’ve been building demo environments for Tech.Days Online for the past few days. I had been blogging as I built, but then I hit problems and time pressure meant I had to pause my series on building the hybrid network. I will pick up the remainder of those posts in the near future but in the meantime, I want to give you …
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Building an Azure IaaS and on-premise hybrid environment Part 2: DC and servers in the cloud
Rik Hepworth Nov 4, 2013 · 5 min read · Uncategorised ·
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This is part 2 of a series of posts bout building a hybrid network connecting Windows Azure and on-premise. For more background on what the goals are, and for information on how to create the Azure Network and connect the VPN tunnel between on-premise and cloud see part 1.
Creating a DC on our Azure Network
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Building an Azure IaaS and on-premise hybrid environment Part 1: The plan and Azure Network Connection
Rik Hepworth Nov 3, 2013 · 10 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I’ve been meaning to build a test lab to kick the tyres of Windows Azure Networks for a while. Two things combined together to make me get it done, however: First was the need to build exactly that for a customer as part of proof-of-concepts; the second was an invitation to present at Tech.Days Online on the subject. …
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Connecting Azure Network Site-Site VPN to a SonicWall Appliance
Rik Hepworth Oct 28, 2013 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I am with a customer this week, building a test Azure Network+IaaS/Azure AD/Office 365 environment. We struggled to get the site-site VPN connection up for a while and there wasn’t a great deal on the greater internet to help, save for a couple of posts in a discussion forum by the marvellous Marcus Robinson. We …
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Speaking at UK Tech.Days Online 2013
Rik Hepworth Oct 26, 2013 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I’ve been supporting the great team of evangelists at Microsoft with their UK Tech.Days events for some time now. I am chuffed to bits that they have asked me to contribute to the fantastic UK Tech.Days Online event. If you haven’t heard about it, go look at the agenda right now! Three days of great content on the …
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Generation 2 Virtual Machines on Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 plus other nice new features
Rik Hepworth Oct 15, 2013 · 9 min read · Uncategorised ·
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DDD North 2013 was a fantastic community conference but sadly I didn’t get chance to deliver my grok talk on Generation 2 virtual machines. A few people came up to me beforehand to say they were interested in the topic, and a few more spoke to me afterwards to ask if I would blog. I had planned to write a post anyway, …
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Unexpectedly now doing a session at DDD North 2013
Rik Hepworth Oct 10, 2013 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I had a surprise exchange of text messages last night with Andy Westgarth. Sadly, one of the people who was to speak in one of the first session slots has had to pull out. Andy did the thing all the best conference organisers do – he called his friends! As a result, Richard and myself will be presenting a session about …
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Creating a DC on our Azure Network