The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

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  • 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,…

  • Operation ShareLove: Support Haiti Earthquake Victims

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    A little more than a week ago on 12 January 2010, the worst earthquake in nearly 200 years struck less than ten miles from the Caribbean City of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. The severity of the quake was nothing to laugh at as a magnitude 7.0 quake devastated the country. There are some estimations out that approximately…

  • Office Communicator Conferencing Add-in x64 Support

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    For those of you that are running Office Communicator 2007 R2 and Office 2010 Beta 2, and you’ve been running on Windows x64 and wondering when Microsoft would release their Office Conferencing Add-in pack that you could use without downgrading to x86 binaries of Office 2010 Beta 2, behold the x64 plug in is now…

  • Office Communicator 2007 R2 January CU

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    For those of you that leverage Office Communicator 2007 R2, you might be happy to know that Microsoft has released a cumulative update to fix a few of the integration problems between Communicator and Office 2007 and seems to work with the Office 2010 Beta 2 software for all you early adopters out there. Like…

  • Thanksgiving 2009

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    Just another day in the life of Dan… that’s what I tell myself every morning as I get ready for the day. It’s been a perplexing year with several life changes and challenges – whether family related, work or things in the social and technical communities that I’m involved with. Today is Thanksgiving though, the…

  • It's all in the brand…

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    Most of the time, I try to keep posts related to either a SharePoint topic or an event or something that I’ve been pondering with regard to architecture, infrastructure or administration. This weekend however was a real treat to have Heather Waterman, one of the SharePoint Branding subject matter experts, pay a visit to the…

  • 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. 🙂…