The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Category: SharePoint

  • Visio Stencils Update for SharePoint / Search / Office

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    Just in case you didn’t hear, Microsoft has published a new set of Visio templates for SharePoint Server 2010, Project Server 2010, Search Server 2010 and other Office Products. They’re available now on the Microsoft Download Center at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=88e03d22-8f42-4c9d-94ef-d8e48322d677 Just drop them in your My Documents > My Shapes folder and they’ll show up in…

  • No, don’t pull that cord out of the wall…

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    Are you ever working on a server and you wander away for a few minutes only to come back and find that you’ve been disconnected and your session terminated? Never something fun to work through, especially if you’re installing and configuring a software product. In most enterprise settings this is something that you’d find in…

  • Surrounding Infrastructure–the bane of the IT Pro Detective Work…

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    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…

  • Planning for SharePoint 2010 Guide Book

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    So you’ve just gotten word from your project manager that you’ve got three weeks to plan for and implement SharePoint 2010 for your customer. They’ve got a perfectly good and working SharePoint 2007 implementation that’s hosting their data and fulfilling some of their needs, but they have plans for something new and brilliant, or at…

  • Ensuring Meaningful Testing…

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    So you’re working on a SharePoint engagement and you’re gathering requirements, building wireframes and other documentation for decision points and execution by clients and customers. While you’re working through all of this, be sure that you’ve got a solid tester that understands SharePoint development and the .net framework and isn’t just coming in with the…

  • Office 2010 Cumulative Update…

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    If you’ve been on the road heading to Washington DC for the past few days to participate in the Rally to Keep Fear Alive or perhaps to Restore Sanity prior to running the Marine Corps Marathon, then perhaps you may have missed this little bit of info… That’s right, Microsoft has released yet another group…

  • I just wish someone would adopt me…

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    Have you spent hours upon hours building the Mecca of SharePoint 2010 deployments? Honing and refining the BCS code that ties into your sales backend system to pull data across the wire that allows your business users to leverage PowerPivot to rotate their data around and find out things about their sales and marketing efforts?…

  • I’ll take a Claim to that…the SQL…

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    So you’re thinking that you might be interested in going down the path of Claims Authentication with SharePoint 2010 – I mean, it’s hip and new and a fun thing to do right? In reality there are a lot of great things about claims and doors that it opens for federating with other applications around…

  • Feeling out of the loop…

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    Have noticed that with SharePoint 2010 there’s just a ton of content? It’s similar to when SharePoint 2007 arrived, there wasn’t a ton of information on TechNet/MSDN, but the blogs were fired up and content was disseminating at a pace that could be kept up with to some extent. With the new platform, and with…

  • PrereqInstaller Windows Script Host error? Say What?

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    Yes, that’s correct, if you’ve decided that you’re going to build out your SharePoint environment in an Internet disconnected environment, or on an island as I prefer to call it… be sure that your environment isn’t locked down such that you can’t even run the prereqinstaller to configure your server application roles. So you say…