Category: Infrastructure
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Azure: Setting up a custom domain for Office 365 by way of Azure Active Directory
If you’re like me, sometimes you like to do things a little more efficiently and elegantly through PowerShell or through the Azure portal when it deals with the underlying infrastructure that’s associated with an Office 365 tenant. If you’re using Office 365 you’ve established a tenant with a .onmicrosoft.com name. Reminder PSA: You can’t change…
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ARM Template Reference Now Available
If you’ve been tracking Microsoft’s Azure cloud offering over the past few years you’ve probably noticed that there have been a few (hundred) changes during that time period. And by hundred, I mean multiple hundreds. . . One of those changes was to transition from the Azure Service Management interfaces to the Azure Resource Management…
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Windows Management Framework 4.0 Released
Just a heads up that the Windows Management Framework version 4.0 has been released. If you remember the past year or so that it wasn’t until Service Pack 2 was released for SharePoint 2010 that you were able to use Windows Management Framework 3.0 with the application server. In similar fashion, version 4 is not…
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Blocking the installation of SharePoint 2013…
Recently I came across a thread on SPYAM regarding whether it’s possible to block SharePoint 2013 installations using group policy or through the registry. Sure enough it’s possible to use the SharePoint 2010 installation blocking technique for SharePoint 2013 with a minor modification. Rather than having the Registry Key be for 14.0, just modify it…
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Docs: Upgrading to SharePoint Server 2010 v3 Released
Similar to other documents, Microsoft has released a second update this month pertaining to Upgrading to SharePoint 2010. Similar to other docs, no change log is included with the document – break out your compare documents to find out the differences. The document is available in two flavours, doc and pdf and available here for…
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Docs: Group Policy for Microsoft Office 2010 – Update v2
In case you downloaded the Group Policy for Microsoft Office 2010 earlier this month, Microsoft has updated the documentation, still available in your favorite three flavours of doc, pdf and xps. Group Policy for Microsoft Office 2010 Version 2, released on 17 January 2011 Unfortunately a change log page is not included within the document,…
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SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation Update
For those of you that are working with integrating SharePoint with other technologies or just plumb curious as to the interfaces and technical specifications to take into account while developing solutions, best check out the 186 MB of SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation that was recently updated and re-released. The original documentation was released…
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December 2010 Cumulative Updates for SharePoint
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…
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Surrounding Infrastructure–the bane of the IT Pro Detective Work…
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…
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EBS Hotfix for SharePoint 2010
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…
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