The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

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  • Come to the dark side…

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    It’s been a fairly light week after all the news pouring out from the Consumer Electronics Show, but a few highlights of interest. It would seem that Andrew Connell has finally come back to the dark side with the procurement of a MacBook Pro. Funny enough that he’s got a similar logo on his MBP…

  • DirectAccess Test Lab Guide Released…

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    Looking to test out Direct Access and see how it can be used within your organization but don’t feel like setting up the entire infrastructure? Head on over to the Microsoft download center and pick up a copy of the test lab guide to build out a machine using Windows Server 2012. More deets here:…

  • Microsoft Office 2013 DocRecrypt Tool – Deciphered…

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    So if you’re thinking to yourself, “Cool! Microsoft released a tool called the Office 2013 DocRecrypt Tool! I’ll be able to decrypt all those documents and do whatever I want with them! No one can stop me now!” Not so fast there Kimosabe. You still have to have the escrow key to decrypt files before…

  • Exchange 2013 Visio Stencil

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    In case you’re working on that Visio documentation and you’re in need of a stencil for Exchange 2013, look no further, it’s available through the Microsoft Download Center here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36448 Happy Stenciling!

  • Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012 Update – Explorer Error

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    Always interesting when reading through the Download Center Updates that are available when something like this pops up: Title:  Explorer.exe process may crash when you tap or click the desktop in Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 Published: 1/18/2013 Link:  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2795719 Download:  http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36447 Is it just me or that’s… “Bad”? Granted if you dig into the…

  • OT: Mountain Lion + SkyDrive Error

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    For those that use Mac OSX with VMWare and other products to perform their day to day SharePoint work – props to you for working a little outside the box. On a side note, if you decided to upgrade to Mountain Lion quickly after it was released, it appears that you beat Microsoft to the…

  • What happened to me?

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    For those of you that have known me for a while, you know that I absolutely deplore coffee. I’m not quite certain if it’s the tasty, the acidity, the smell, I’m not quite certain what it is but I deplore it. Well, similar to wine, if you have bad wine, you basically never want to…

  • SharePoint Practices Poll Results

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    During the Holiday break I threw a quickly developed poll up on Survey Monkey to see what folks perceptions were of their favorite SharePoint Practice in the Washington, DC area.  The results were eye-opening. Okay, not really. The results were non-scientific backing, further lacking turnout and non-repudiation controls.  One major control that was lacking was…

  • PanTech UML 290 LTE–First Thoughts

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    So I bit the bullet and bought the PanTech UML 290 from Verizon Wireless, flat out. Works like a champ… when it works. The above speed test was taken from my house.  I noticed that after about ten minutes, the card would stop transmitting traffic.  At first I thought, “alright, maybe there’s a hardware issue.”…

  • 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…