Wow, isn’t the SharePoint 2010 User Profile Service just a barrel of laughs. Without a bit of context, when you compare it to SP2007, you can do little but shake your head in bewilderment at how complex it now appears. …
More User Profile Sync issues in SP2010: Certificate Provisioning Fun Read more »
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 »
As you may have noticed, this blog has been a bit of a dead zone lately. There are several very good reasons for this – one being that a lot of my creative energy has been going into co-writing a …
Here we go… another Cleverworkarounds waffle! Now, we all know that Joel Oleson is the Russell Crowe of the SharePoint world! I mean, he’s multi-skilled, loads of talent, has the respect of his peers and has built a well deserved …
think as you age, you become more and more like your parents. Not so long ago I went out paintballing with some friends and we all agreed that the 16-18 year olds who also happened to be there were all obnoxious little twerps who needed a good kick in the rear. At the same time, we also agreed that we were just as obnoxious back when we were that age. Your perspective changes as you learn and your experience grows, but you don’t forget where you came from…
SharePoint, for a number of reasons, is one of those products that has a way of really laying bare any gaps that the organisation has in terms of their overall maturity around technology and strategy…
Microsoft bashing is a favourite pastime of many a nerd. Whether it is justified or not in many cases is debatable since M$ will never please everyone. But the point is, it is cathartic and in actual fact, good therapy …
Bill, a former colleague of mine who is very technically savvy, has a little corner of the blogspace called www.notgoodenough.net. Here he posts about the everyday dumb issues that he comes across that make his working life that little bit …
Here is a recent little story about when, in the name of "security", a really dumb thing was done, and the response that said a lot about the security posture of those behind the response. A client of mine has …
Those in the security community who have ever performed vulnerability assessment/penetration testing will know of the Google Hacking database. Google is actually a very handy tool to look for potentially vulnerable sites, due to the fact that it will crawl …
Using google to find potentially misconfigured SharePoint sites Read more »
As I mentioned in my last post, I always security trim SharePoint. A very common issue with a security trimmed SharePoint is the "access denied" message that you receive when trying to activate the "Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure" site …