The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

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  • Planning for SharePoint 2010 Guide Book

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    So you’ve just gotten word from your project manager that you’ve got three weeks to plan for and implement SharePoint 2010 for your customer. They’ve got a perfectly good and working SharePoint 2007 implementation that’s hosting their data and fulfilling some of their needs, but they have plans for something new and brilliant, or at…

  • Ensuring Meaningful Testing…

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    So you’re working on a SharePoint engagement and you’re gathering requirements, building wireframes and other documentation for decision points and execution by clients and customers. While you’re working through all of this, be sure that you’ve got a solid tester that understands SharePoint development and the .net framework and isn’t just coming in with the…

  • EBS Hotfix for SharePoint 2010

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    So somehow I missed a tweet from Rob D’Oria, but apparently there’s an External BLOB Storage (EBS) hotfix that is necessary for SharePoint 2010 environments using EBS that was released back on September 7, 2010 with KB number 2398734.  The hotfix was primarily built to address the following EBS issues: A customized external binary large…

  • Certification Links…

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    Yes, I realize that everyone and their brother probably has posted this to their blog, but I figured that I would be the N+1 instance.  So, just in case you’re searching around trying to find links for SharePoint 2010’s preliminary certifications… http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/cert-sharepoint-server.aspx#tab2 For IT Pro: 70-667 – TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring – http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?ID=70-667&locale=en-us 70-668…

  • Visio Stencil for Office IT Pros…

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    So this definitely isn’t something new, however I feel that it comes up from time to time when folks notice that I’m working with a stencil set that they don’t have since it’s not out of the box available for Visio. If you’re looking for the Visio stencil used with all of the SharePoint 2007…

  • Office 2010 Cumulative Update…

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    If you’ve been on the road heading to Washington DC for the past few days to participate in the Rally to Keep Fear Alive or perhaps to Restore Sanity prior to running the Marine Corps Marathon, then perhaps you may have missed this little bit of info… That’s right, Microsoft has released yet another group…

  • I just wish someone would adopt me…

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    Have you spent hours upon hours building the Mecca of SharePoint 2010 deployments? Honing and refining the BCS code that ties into your sales backend system to pull data across the wire that allows your business users to leverage PowerPivot to rotate their data around and find out things about their sales and marketing efforts?…

  • I’ll take a Claim to that…the SQL…

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    So you’re thinking that you might be interested in going down the path of Claims Authentication with SharePoint 2010 – I mean, it’s hip and new and a fun thing to do right? In reality there are a lot of great things about claims and doors that it opens for federating with other applications around…

  • SharePoint Nosh – Filling up on SharePoint for Lunch

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    So if you’re like, you realize that while there are a ton of resources out there, finding time for them isn’t always the easies thing in the world. What can you do? Well, everyone needs to eat lunch right? So why not use that time to check out what’s going on in the community and…

  • Feeling out of the loop…

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    Have noticed that with SharePoint 2010 there’s just a ton of content? It’s similar to when SharePoint 2007 arrived, there wasn’t a ton of information on TechNet/MSDN, but the blogs were fired up and content was disseminating at a pace that could be kept up with to some extent. With the new platform, and with…