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Excel Services Web Access on Cloudshare
Firstly, if you are involved in any kind of software development, whether a lone ranger or a team effort, seriously consider using Cloudshare for your dev environments. It saves me and my team (local and remote) a lot of time! I have a number of environments shared across the team, mostly SharePoint 2010, some with…
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Moving WHS 2011 Client Computer Backups
Had a major disaster with multiple BSODs this week that won’t record any data to debug – time to replace a hard drive and test Windows Home Server 2011 for real. However, I’m using a small SSD as the OS drive for low power/noise and decent performance, so backing up my workstation to that drive…
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So what does “The Cloud” mean now?
I was recently in a meeting and demo about a move to “The Cloud”, specifically Office 365, where I was surprised to encounter some new definitions of “The Cloud" I think it’s fair to say that as Cloud-based services have evolved, so have opinions and the generally accepted definition of “The Cloud”, at least by…
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Speaking at the International SharePoint Conference London 2012
It’s no secret that the Combined Knowledge SharePoint Conferences are the among the biggest and best independent SharePoint conferences, which makes me particularly pleased and proud to be a speaker again at this year’s International SharePoint Conference 2012. In a twist to the conventional SharePoint Conference, this year’s event includes never done before solution tracks…
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Channel Islands SharePoint User Group
It’s been about 6 months since I moved to Jersey to immerse myself in SharePoint at C5 Alliance – I am loving the work and the challenges so far. I also inherited a LinkedIn Channel Islands SharePoint User Group (open to all – do join if you have any interest!) which had stagnated a bit;…
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Create Thousands of Folders in SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell
I was recently trying to figure out a MOSS 2007 AND SharePoint 2003 backwards-compatible way of detecting whether a folder exists in a document library with thousands of items, from a remote location, using Out Of The Box web services… don’t ask why…! Unless I’ve missed something, it’s not possible (apart from the slightly hacky…
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iPhone 4 vs Nokia Lumia 800 – 24 hours later
I took receipt of a shiny new Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone 7 yesterday and thought it would be worthwhile blogging about the pros/cons so far, including some tips for anybody in the same boat. Before I start, I should state where I’m coming from; I use predominantly with Microsoft products and services at home…
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Office365 Update: Business Connectivity Services
SharePoint Online has suffered from a major flaw since BPOS; no Business Data Catalog in the old SharePoint online and “only” Sandbox solutions in Office365. In other words very limited connectivity options. I’m delighted that the addition of Business Connectivity Services (BCS) announced at the SharePoint conference in October is really coming very soon –…
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Lenovo W520 bricked & won’t turn on
I recently took receipt of an all-singing all-dancing Lenovo W520. A beast of a workstation/laptop with unbelievable battery power (especially when you include the additional battery slice). Keith Combs’ review is great if you want more info. All was going really well, slowly building a nice portable dev rig. However, yesterday evening (Sunday.. serves me…