The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

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  • Windows Server 2012 R2 Update

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    **UPDATE** Oddly this portion of the update is no longer published in the TechNet Article. Hoping that it’s added back soon. — To coincide with the Microsoft Build conference and the announcement of Windows 8.1 Update, Microsoft will be releasing an update for Windows Server 2012 R2 per the published TechNet article on 2 April 2014…

  • A pleasant surprise…

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    This morning I received a note from the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program stating that I’d been selected as an MVP for technical expertise within the SharePoint Server community. In a word a few words – stunned, flattered, honored. I’m flattered and honored to have been recognized by Microsoft. Six years ago I would…

  • Seeing through the sensationalism…

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    I do have to say that it cracks me up seeing authors try to spin different information from a non-technical perspective to explain things to consumers rather than just stating, “Hey, it’s a service that already exists, they’re just allowing you to buy it separately.” In this case it’s an article on CMSWire on the…

  • Come to the dark side…

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    It’s been a fairly light week after all the news pouring out from the Consumer Electronics Show, but a few highlights of interest. It would seem that Andrew Connell has finally come back to the dark side with the procurement of a MacBook Pro. Funny enough that he’s got a similar logo on his MBP…

  • UserCode Solutions… collaborative guidance

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    This just in, we finally have a ruling from the SharePoint court of appeals… Sandboxed Solutions are deprecated! Okay, some of them are deprecated. If you’re using declarative code and JavaScript, then keep on writing those Sandboxed Solutions, they’re still supported. If you’re using the slimmed down API that Microsoft presented to us in SharePoint…

  • Patch Tuesday – January 2014

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    A few quick bits of information for today that might be of interest to those of you working with the Microsoft Stack. Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for January 2014 Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word and Office Web Apps Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2916605) If you dig into the KB2916605, it’s labelled as important, not critical…

  • Call to Action… Get in Community!

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    So often we find ourselves struggling with a technical issue or looking for a way to start working toward a business problem from an approach perspective and we find ourselves feeling somewhat alone, without really knowing where to turn. This weekend I found it interesting going down to Virginia Beach and meeting folks from the…

  • SPSEvents – Virginia Beach 2014

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    Well, it’s 2014 and you all know what that means… SPSEvents presents SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach at the Tidewater Community College ATC. This was the sixth year for the event and the community was great! It’s been interesting to have attended several of the SPSVB events over the years and see them continue to refine,…

  • DNS Flush…

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    So if you’re running into an issue where you need to flush DNS on your machine, there are a couple ways to do so… the two most common ways for me at least (long live the command line interface!) are to either pop open a run dialog in elevated permissions mode on a Windows box…

  • SharePoint Online versus On-Premise (v15)

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    If you’re looking for a comparison of the SharePoint Online offering that’s a part of Office 365 broken down by product SKU with what is provided for with SharePoint 2013 Enterprise for your on-premise implementations, you can! Microsoft released this in the form of an Excel Web App as a link off of the SharePoint…