The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Month: January 2011

  • What happened to me?

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    For those of you that have known me for a while, you know that I absolutely deplore coffee. I’m not quite certain if it’s the tasty, the acidity, the smell, I’m not quite certain what it is but I deplore it. Well, similar to wine, if you have bad wine, you basically never want to…

  • Docs: Upgrading to SharePoint Server 2010 v3 Released

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    Similar to other documents, Microsoft has released a second update this month pertaining to Upgrading to SharePoint 2010. Similar to other docs, no change log is included with the document – break out your compare documents to find out the differences. The document is available in two flavours, doc and pdf and available here for…

  • Docs: Group Policy for Microsoft Office 2010 – Update v2

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    In case you downloaded the Group Policy for Microsoft Office 2010 earlier this month, Microsoft has updated the documentation, still available in your favorite three flavours of doc, pdf and xps. Group Policy for Microsoft Office 2010 Version 2, released on 17 January 2011 Unfortunately a change log page is not included within the document,…

  • Productivity Hub for SharePoint 2010 – Update

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    Back in June 2010, Microsoft released what was known as the Productivity Hub for SharePoint 2010. It was a site collection that Microsoft provided that could be extended out for end users to visit to acquire knowledge on how to use SharePoint.  Great resource if you were short on training components and looking for assistance…

  • SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation Update

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    For those of you that are working with integrating SharePoint with other technologies or just plumb curious as to the interfaces and technical specifications to take into account while developing solutions, best check out the 186 MB of SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation that was recently updated and re-released. The original documentation was released…

  • Federation Extensions for SharePoint 3.0

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    If you’re running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or SharePoint Server 2007 and not quite ready to migrate to SharePoint 2010 to leverage the Claims Authentication Provider, take heart, there’s still hope. Back in May 2010, Microsoft released several documents and extensions to assist with configuring the SharePoint v3 (or v12 depending on how you look…

  • Monday Morning Bytes…

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    Wake Up Bits… It’s Monday morning, 10 January 2011… do you know what your group policy objects are configured to that may potentially affect the end user experience between SharePoint 2010 and your Office 2010 client users?  If not, no need to sweat, Microsoft recently published a document on Group Policy for Microsoft Office 2010…

  • Fresh SharePoint 2010 Content in 2011

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    A few new documents have been released from Microsoft for SharePoint Products and Technologies here in 2011, though they aren’t yet showing up in the TechCenter. I found this out only due to the fact that Isaac Stith (aka @mrisaac) made note of an updated Capacity Planning guide that wasn’t listed in the TechCenter feed.…

  • SharePoint Practices Poll Results

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    During the Holiday break I threw a quickly developed poll up on Survey Monkey to see what folks perceptions were of their favorite SharePoint Practice in the Washington, DC area.  The results were eye-opening. Okay, not really. The results were non-scientific backing, further lacking turnout and non-repudiation controls.  One major control that was lacking was…

  • Microsoft Office 365–A Closed Cloud

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    A few months ago on 19 October 2010, there was a news media event announcing Microsoft Office 365, the revolutionary service from Microsoft that would provide small business and enterprises to move to a services hosted infrastructure in what is loosely termed, “The Cloud.” In fact it was so fast moving, the DNS registration hadn’t…