I have been doing a bit more tech work than normal lately – SP2010 popularity I guess, and was asked to remediate a few issues on a problematic server that I hadn’t set up. The server in question had a …
Index index everywhere but not a result in sight. Read more »
So its Saturday night and where I should be out having fun, I am instead sitting in a training room in Wellington New Zealand, configuring a lab for a course I am running on Monday. Each student lab setup is …
Last year, Peter Serzo and I presented at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference in DC. We did an extremely serious talk called “SharePoint and SQL Reporting Services 2008 for the really really good looking” which rated rather well. As part …
SharePoint Webcasts: Reporting Services for the Really Really Good Looking Read more »
In the words of Doctor Smith from lost in space, while everyone else was in Vegas having a grand old time, I was at a client site, having to come to grips with the beast known as Windows Small Business …
SBS 2008, Hewlett Packard, WSS3, Search Server 2008 Express and a UPS – Oh the pain! Read more »
I had a problem this week that got resolved with something quite obvious, but I learned a lot in the process, so I am detailing it here. Symptoms: Using MOSS 2007 SP2 and Office 2003 SP3, users complained that metadata …
Missing metadata with Office 2003 – yet another “duh” moment… Read more »
Every so often I get back into geek mode and roll up the sleeves and get my SharePoint hands dirty. Not so long ago I was assisting a small WSS3 based organisation with a major disk subsystem upgrade (iSCSI SAN) …
Troubleshooting SPSearch and good practices for moving large files Read more »
I’ve written this post to document a dumbass thing that I did and the error that it caused. Hopefully it might help someone googling in desperation sometime… The popularity of the “Tribute to the humble leave form” series over at …
SPD workflows: “ERROR: request not found in the TrackedRequests” Read more »
At the San Diego Best Practices SharePoint conference, I sat quietly and listened to the governance godfather himself, Robert Bogue, discussing with the other SharePoint "big kids" various reasons why InfoPath sucks in many situations and some of its current …
Hi! I’ve just noticed that Arno Nel over at SharePoint Magazine has published part 7 of my "Tribute to the Humble Leave Form" series on InfoPath and forms services. Bye!
Hi all I have been extremely quiet on the blogging front lately, because I have been extremely busy, splitting my time between working on my two presentations for the up-coming Best Practices SharePoint Conference, as well as wearing my undies …
More on the Best Practice SharePoint Conference – Feb 2-4 2009 in San Diego! Read more »