The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

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  • SharePint DC – Coming Soon…

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    It’s Summer time in the greater DC metro area and what better way to get out of the office a few minutes early, and yet still chat with other SharePoint professionals about the intricacies of infrastructure, architecture, and development than to do so over a pint at a brewery in the greater DC area? Well,…

  • Upcoming Speaking Engagements in June 2009

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    …that I know of 🙂 So I’m hitting the road on June 19 for SharePoint Saturday Charlotte which is on the 20th.  From there it’s off to Boston for the SharePoint Technology Conference which runs from the 22-24 June.  I speak on the 24th in the afternoon.  If you’re wondering where I’m at after that,…

  • Baltimore SharePoint User's Group – 21 May 2009

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    This past Thursday, I drove up to the Baltimore SharePoint User’s Group to present on the topic of “Designing Logical Architectures and Site Taxonomies.” It was a decent drive up the BW Parkway from Northern Virginia, chatting with Eric Harlan and a few others on the way up – apparently there were folks heading for…

  • AAM – The Bain of search problems…

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    Recently, I rain into an issue where WSS v3 search results weren’t working properly. It ended up being a pretty simple fix in that the web application authentication setup (basic versus integrated windows authentication) with the alternate access mappings weren’t configured properly.  After a little bit of modification to the settings, wallah, things worked magnificently.…

  • Getting in the SharePoint biz…

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    In today’s world of exploding growth in the SharePoint market space where folks are using the platform for all sorts of different things, it’s been somewhat comical to see business folks try to pick up the SharePoint lingo to “get in the game.”  It’s also been somewhat comical to see the above situations occur 🙂

  • Twitter Spam…

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    So for those of you that don’t know, on a regular basis I get “tweet spam” from individuals on Twitter, that for some reason think that I’m “Usher” (Usher Raymond IV).  So today, sure enough, more twitter spam.  Always fun to see folks want me to give up the name that is rightfully mine. 🙂…

  • Configuration Management and SP2

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    For those of you considering implementing service pack 2 on your SharePoint servers, remember to test out the upgrade packages on your development and staging environments prior to deployment on your production system.  For links to the downloads and instructions, check out the SharePoint Product Team blog entry at http://go.spdan.com/sp2

  • SharePoint Saturday – DC

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    This past weekend, SharePoint Saturday visited the local Northern Virginia region with SharePoint Saturday DC, hosted at the Microsoft Technology Center in Reston, VA. It was a great time with 28 sessions led by SharePoint professionals and MVPs from all around the country. Props to Dux Sy for his coordination of the volunteers and sponsors!…

  • Documentation gone awry…

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    Have you ever had those moments where someone asks about the documentation you wrote a while ago…

  • SharePoint on Windows Server 2008 – Building the framework

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    This weekend I undertook the fun of building out a medium sized farm on my personal development hardware with my trusty MSDN license that I bought for my own personal use to begin testing a few pieces of code I’ve been working on as well as to have a play ground to work through occasional…