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  • 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…

  • PanTech UML 290 LTE–First Thoughts

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    So I bit the bullet and bought the PanTech UML 290 from Verizon Wireless, flat out. Works like a champ… when it works. The above speed test was taken from my house.  I noticed that after about ten minutes, the card would stop transmitting traffic.  At first I thought, “alright, maybe there’s a hardware issue.”…

  • December 2010 Cumulative Updates for SharePoint

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    This one goes out to my friend and SharePoint colleague, Mark Rackley, also known to many of you as @MRackley. Gotta help my Dev friends that wonder at times why the underlying infrastructure doesn’t work properly – hopefully these bits will help. Seem like you just got the good bits for the October 2010 Cumulative…

  • Building your skills

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    Being somewhat of a technology addict that enjoys the stream of bits coursing through the air, inducing flux through the antennas embedded within electronics, I tend to also have a craving for knowledge. From a theological standpoint, some might refer to this as the theorist that enjoys staying in the balcony. For the IT Pro they might…

  • Visio Stencils Update for SharePoint / Search / Office

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    Just in case you didn’t hear, Microsoft has published a new set of Visio templates for SharePoint Server 2010, Project Server 2010, Search Server 2010 and other Office Products. They’re available now on the Microsoft Download Center at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=88e03d22-8f42-4c9d-94ef-d8e48322d677 Just drop them in your My Documents > My Shapes folder and they’ll show up in…

  • No, don’t pull that cord out of the wall…

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    Are you ever working on a server and you wander away for a few minutes only to come back and find that you’ve been disconnected and your session terminated? Never something fun to work through, especially if you’re installing and configuring a software product. In most enterprise settings this is something that you’d find in…

  • Surrounding Infrastructure–the bane of the IT Pro Detective Work…

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    We’ve all been there, we get a call from our client, customer, project manager or colleague at 630 in the morning stating that the portal is down. Typically this is done in such a manner that involves a terse conversation asking how long you’ve known the system was down and when you were going to…

  • SharePoint Users Group of DC–November 2010 Meeting Info

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    The SharePoint Users Group of DC will be convening for their monthly meeting this Thursday at the Hire Strategy facility in Reston Town Center, 11 November 2010. There will be two speaker sessions, both of which look quite interesting feature the use of SharePoint Designer 2010 as well as overall Best Practices for SharePoint implementation…