The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Category: SharePoint

  • SharePoint Conference 2020

    SharePoint Conference 2020

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    Have some free time on your hands in May and itching to get to know the SharePoint Framework and all the other capabilities of SharePoint and SharePoint Online? Check out the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada the week of 17 May 2020 … and if you go and check out Andrew Connell’s session I…

  • Azure Shared Disks are coming!!!

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    Do you still have a need or desire to continue to run your SharePoint environment in an on-premises data center so that you can have them luxury of Always On Availability Groups with SQL Server? Well… now you can really take that workload to the cloud (with some minor caveats) once Microsoft fully goes GA…

  • SharePoint Server 2019

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    Just upgrade to SharePoint 2013? That means you probably know the ins and outs of your information architecture and just transitioned all of your apps over to either Provider Hosted or SharePoint Hosted apps… what better time than to start thinking about setting up new kit to install SharePoint Server 2019? 🙂 Go ahead, click…

  • Office 365: Managing your users through PowerShell

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    If you’re like me, then you tend to find yourself wanting to automate as much as possible, or at least be able to work with sets of data in a way that quickly allows you to get to the root of an issue rather than clicking through endless screens of information. In case you were…

  • The Ultimate Timer Job Fix

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    If you find yourself running into problems with your SharePoint server when it comes to Timer Jobs, perhaps you should take the advice of Randall Monroe… Note that I’m not actually recommending that you do this, but there’s something to be said about clearing your paging file from time to time with a reboot.

  • SharePoint MVP Experts AMA

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    If you haven’t heard yet, there’s an Ask Me Anything SharePoint MVPs Expert Chat taking place on October 29th at 1 PM EST. The panel consists of SharePoint MVPs across the spectrum (and the world for that matter). So what’s that mean? If you’re curious about SharePoint 2010 or 2013 or perhaps SharePoint Online or…

  • Patch Tuesday – January 2014

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    A few quick bits of information for today that might be of interest to those of you working with the Microsoft Stack. Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for January 2014 Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word and Office Web Apps Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2916605) If you dig into the KB2916605, it’s labelled as important, not critical…

  • SharePoint 2013 and Windows Server 2012

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    I’m curious but what is the deal with Microsoft requiring that you contact PSS to get one of the software requirements for running SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012. If you notice, in the Hardware and Software Requirements document on TechNet for SharePoint 2013 (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx) you’ll notice that there’s a hot fix required for a…

  • Visual Studio 2010 Exam Retirement Dates

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    So you’re still catching up on getting certified on Microsoft technologies that your clients and customers are using … may want to consider either switching over to ludicrous speed or just skipping ahead to the next iteration of Visual Studio exams. Why praytell? Well Microsoft is retiring the exams on 31 July 2013. They (Microsoft)…

  • Office 365 Dedicated – Content Migration

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    Starting April 15, 2013, Microsoft will no longer process outbound migrations for SharePoint Online dedicated plan customers. Outbound migrations will instead be accomplished by third-party independent software vendor (ISV) solutions, just like Inbound migrations are today.