This post should also be titled “My Penalty for not Reading ALL the Instructions“. As it turns out, when you install the Service Pack 1 for SharePoint Server (first Foundation, then Server) – you are required to run the configuration wizard on your own at the end of the process. I can only assume this [...]
From time to time, deleting the Search Service Application can not be completed through the GUI or through powershell. Sometime you will get an error like this one: The timer job completed, but failed on one or more machines in the farm. And sometimes the PowerShell command runs indefinitely. In these circumstances it’s good old [...]
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My phone rings more often to explain licensing for SharePoint than any other single category of calls. While I agree that it can be confusing – it’s not as bad as you might thing (or some other products). Before I give my $.02 on licensing, I need to make the disclaimer that I do not [...]
In this video, SharePoint Server MVP Eric Shupps and I talk about having a plan for “Day 2″. In other words – it is equally important to have a plan to monitor and manage growth as it is to deploy SharePoint in the first place. Having a defined “Managed Service” for SharePoint defined inside of [...]
In this first installment of “SharePoint:TALKS” Microsoft Certified Master in SharePoint, Tom Resing and I talk about the evolution of SharePoint development tools. BTW: I had to rename the video series as I ran out of videos from TechEd A lot has evolved in the native development tools and documentation from Microsoft even since SharePoint [...]
In this video Grant Paisley (SQL MVP) of Angy Koala and I talk about PowerPivot inside of SharePoint 2010. Grant has been doing some great work in this space. Grant is also coming off his first year to present at TechEd – Contrats to Grant! PS: Sorry about the audio quality – we didn’t chose [...]
Ted Pattison at TechEd 2011SharePoint MVP Ted Pattison of Critical Path Training and I visit at TechEd 2011 about the evolution of SharePoint as a programming platform. We discuss development for on-premise SharePoint installations as well as Hosted “Private Cloud” as well as for Office365.
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Rick Taylor (@slkrck) and I had the chance at TechEd 2011 to sit down and talk about SharePoint security. As we uncovered in our conversation – it’s not all controlled inside of SharePoint.
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