The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Category: SharePoint

  • Upcoming Speaking Engagements in June 2009

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    …that I know of 🙂 So I’m hitting the road on June 19 for SharePoint Saturday Charlotte which is on the 20th.  From there it’s off to Boston for the SharePoint Technology Conference which runs from the 22-24 June.  I speak on the 24th in the afternoon.  If you’re wondering where I’m at after that,…

  • Baltimore SharePoint User's Group – 21 May 2009

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    This past Thursday, I drove up to the Baltimore SharePoint User’s Group to present on the topic of “Designing Logical Architectures and Site Taxonomies.” It was a decent drive up the BW Parkway from Northern Virginia, chatting with Eric Harlan and a few others on the way up – apparently there were folks heading for…

  • AAM – The Bain of search problems…

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    Recently, I rain into an issue where WSS v3 search results weren’t working properly. It ended up being a pretty simple fix in that the web application authentication setup (basic versus integrated windows authentication) with the alternate access mappings weren’t configured properly.  After a little bit of modification to the settings, wallah, things worked magnificently.…

  • Configuration Management and SP2

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    For those of you considering implementing service pack 2 on your SharePoint servers, remember to test out the upgrade packages on your development and staging environments prior to deployment on your production system.  For links to the downloads and instructions, check out the SharePoint Product Team blog entry at http://go.spdan.com/sp2

  • SharePoint Saturday – DC

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    This past weekend, SharePoint Saturday visited the local Northern Virginia region with SharePoint Saturday DC, hosted at the Microsoft Technology Center in Reston, VA. It was a great time with 28 sessions led by SharePoint professionals and MVPs from all around the country. Props to Dux Sy for his coordination of the volunteers and sponsors!…

  • SharePoint on Windows Server 2008 – Building the framework

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    This weekend I undertook the fun of building out a medium sized farm on my personal development hardware with my trusty MSDN license that I bought for my own personal use to begin testing a few pieces of code I’ve been working on as well as to have a play ground to work through occasional…

  • First Impressions on Balsamiq

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    So a few different folks in the SharePoint community have mentioned that they’re huge fans of Balsamiq, and we’re not talking about vinegar.  Balsamiq is an application built upon the Adobe AIR framework that allows for rapid development of mockups – typically of web based applications, but can be used for mockups of such technical…

  • SharePoint Saturday Boston Slides

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    It’s been two weeks and I’ve finally gotten a few minutes to come up for air and take care of some administrative things, which include posting these slides. Additionally available on SlideShare at:  http://www.slideshare.net/spdan/contextual-considerations-logical-architecture-and-taxonomy PDF Slides:  Contextual Considerations: Logical Architecture and Taxonomy

  • SharePoint Collaboration Service Governance Plan

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    Joel Oleson, John Ross Jr. Jennifer Mason and Paul Culmsee have developed a whitepaper on behalf of Microsoft on the topic of “SharePoint Collaboration Service Governance Plan”.  The document provides an outline of the administration, maintenance and support of an MOSS 2007 deployment. Great document that definitely gets at the heart of the matter with…

  • Migrating a site between domains

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    So I realize that this article is about two years too late, but the question still comes up from time to time, so I figured that I might as well post it. Situation:  You find yourself in a quandary without the use of a third party tool from AvePoint, Metalogix, Quest, Tzunami and your organization…