This article is all about preparation. It’s about the thinking and planning you need to do if you’re going to successfully build your wonderful, unique and striking website on the SharePoint platform. I’ve been helping customers implement SharePoint solutions for quite a while. Life gets interesting when those …

At a recent installation engagement a colleague and I were (un)fortunate to come across provisioned servers in a VMware environment. We installed SharePoint 2010 quite happily and were configuring until we came to the User Profile Service. No matter what we appeared to try the service would refuse to start. After much …

One of our customers contacted us the other day with a problem. They wanted to put a view of a document library that was located in the top level site of a site collection onto the landing pages of all the second level sites in that collection. The customer had consulted the internet hive mind and found a blog post …

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 …

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 …

Since leaving Black Marble Iain is blogging at http://sixfortyfour.wordpress.com

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 …