The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

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  • WSS Cumulative Update for February 2009 – FTW!

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    Just finished updating my VM that I use for my testing and it would seem that things have turned out well per the guidance of folks like Stefan Gossner and Joerg Sinemus. Looks like our friendly new version for WSS v3 post installation is 12.0.0.6341.  So far, so good, no problems have arisen.

  • DC SharePoint Meetup – 28 Feb 2009

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    For anyone in the greater DC area, there will be a “Meetup” for SharePoint Professionals today (28 February 2009) at 6 PM at La Madeline’s off of Chain Bridge Road in McLean / Tyson’s Corner, Virginia. More information about the SharePoint Meetup group can be found at: http://www.meetup.com/The-SharePoint-Meetup More information about this particular event is…

  • BackSeat Driving – InfoPath

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    So if you’re not familiar with Mike Gannotti (@gannotti on twitter), you really should be.  Furthermore, if there’s a topic that you know quite a bit about with regard to SharePoint, you should consider hopping in the back of his Dodge Charger (it’s got a Hemi) and discuss the topic with him in his BackSeat…

  • SPDiag v1 – First Impressions

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    So as a follow up to mentioning of the tool, my first impressions to the SPDiag tool are essentially – holy guacamole, this is awesome!  It’s nothing super flashy, though you can download the .net 3.5 Microsoft Charts plugin to provide for additionally graphical views of information.  It sports the plain jane simple minimalistic UI…

  • Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3 Available

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    For those of you that read the recent article pertaining to the SharePoint Diagnostics v1 tool for SharePoint 2007 and were slightly confused and left wondering where it was buried in the v2 release of the toolkit, Microsoft has answered the question. Downloads available at: Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0 x86 Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit…

  • SharePoint Saturday: NYC… maybe?

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    I’ve submitted to speak at SharePoint Saturday in NYC – we’ll see if they accept my submission on the topic of Requirements Driving Logical Architecture Design. What’s that? You don’t know about SharePoint Saturday? It’s a grassroots organization that’s planning SharePoint events across the country. Check out their homepage for resources and for an event…

  • Have you clustered your users yet?

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    Yes, you read the title correctly.  I’m not referring to clustering SQL servers, nor am I referring to your clustered ISA servers, or Microsoft Clustering Services.  Rather I’m talking about clustering your users to see what their permissions are and if they’re similar to the permissions of anyone else in your farm. What are you…

  • Contextual Considerations of Technical Planning

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    On 10 January 2009, I attended the SharePoint Saturday – Virginia Beach event with a friend of mine, looking to see SharePoint from a different angle and take in new perspectives and perhaps learn a thing or two while being refreshed by others in the "community".  It was great to meet Paul Galvin, Dan Lewis,…

  • SharePoint Saturday – Virginia Beach – FTW!

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    This morning started off quite early (around 4:30 AM) as Joel Ward and I headed down from Northern Virginia to Virginia Beach to attend the first ever SharePoint Saturday event. The turnout was tremendous, with numbers ranking up somewhere around 180+ individuals from the greater SharePoint community. It was a pretty laid back day, good…

  • Amazon Web Services Management Console

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    Amazon has released their Web Services Management console, eliminating the need for plugins and third party products that are one off solutions for managing Amazon Web Services resources.  Primarily, EC2 has been simplified for end users.  No longer are novice users forced to use something like the Elasticfox plugin for Mozilla Firefox for EC2.  The…