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  • PrereqInstaller Windows Script Host error? Say What?

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    Yes, that’s correct, if you’ve decided that you’re going to build out your SharePoint environment in an Internet disconnected environment, or on an island as I prefer to call it… be sure that your environment isn’t locked down such that you can’t even run the prereqinstaller to configure your server application roles. So you say…

  • What if Microsoft released Virtual PC x64?

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    Have you ever wondered why Microsoft has yet to release a 64 bit version of Virtual PC? I suppose it’s a question that most of us ask ourselves when we’re setting up an environment to develop code and we’re not too keen on paving our hefty notebooks to run Windows Server 2008 x64 with HyperV…

  • SharePoint, Entropy and Design

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    After talking with one of my colleagues in the community, I felt that needed to share this comment that was made during the conversation, or at least the gist of it… SharePoint Implementations today consist of a race between Architects, Developers and IT Pros striving to build well planned out, bigger and better idiot-proof solutions,…

  • Achieving Work Management Success with SharePoint

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    So often I seem to find case studies out there that discuss technical problems that have been successfully executed against leveraging SharePoint as a platform, or how to perform specific tasks – there are a slew of awesome blogs out there that are chocked full of information to assist IT Pros, Developer and Architects.  But…

  • SharePoint Server 2010 SDK Update Released

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    Looking for some SharePoint 2010 goodness and looking to dive deep into the software development kit? Look no further than the newly released SharePoint 2010 SDK available at – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f0c9daf3-4c54-45ed-9bde-7b4d83a8f26f Enjoy!

  • Installing SharePoint 2010 on an Island

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    Have you found yourself installing SharePoint on an island of sorts – completely disconnected from the Internet, without external DNS connectivity or the ability to download files that are required for SharePoint? Even though you know that the Internet is within reach you’re unable to access it, probably because of an OSI layer 1 network…

  • Brush up on your SharePoint 2010 Skills…

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    So you find yourself in the conundrum of needing to brush up on your hands on skills with either SharePoint 2010? You’ve got a laptop that doesn’t have 8 GB of memory to host that all inclusive VM you downloaded from Microsoft?  You’re not running Vista SP2 x64 / 7 x64 / 2008 x64 as…

  • Loading the SharePoint 2010 Management PowerShell

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    So someone asked me today, “What if I don’t want to use the SharePoint 2010 Management PowerShell”? I looked blankly at them and thought to myself, “Well that’s just silly…” and then decided to look into the matter 🙂 So it’s pretty easy to add the SharePoint snapin for PowerShell. You can do this manually,…

  • Database Spotlight: Application Registry Service DB

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    Unlike other databases that SharePoint 2010 creates, the Application Registry Service Database is actually included in the mix for backward compatibility of SharePoint Server 2007 Business Data Catalog connection information and other information pertinent to the BDC API. By default, the database name is “Application_Registry_Service_DB_<GUID>”.  I’m not quite certain why, but I’m not so much…

  • SharePoint 2010 Database Names

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    While SharePoint Server 2010 has several enhancements for Administrators including such capabilities of an offline database restoring a list item or document, there are still some curiosities that I’ve got as to the planning of the underlying system. For instance, it would seem that for such a refined product with so many enhancements that items…