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Cloning a Windows 8 Boot Partition (For Free!)

May 12, 2013 Gus FraserBlog

The Problem You ran out of space on your Windows 8 PC, now you want to clone your boot drive (HDD, SSD, Whatever..) onto a bigger drive. Old faithful Clonezilla failed you for the first time, like it did for […]

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Creating a Public Facing Website on Office 365 – Part 1

May 9, 2013July 24, 2013 Gus FraserBlog

This post is part 1 of my blog series “Building a Public-Facing Website on Office 365”: Creating a Public-Facing Website on Office 365 – Part 1 (This post) Office 365 Public-Facing Websites –  Master Pages & Page Layouts with Design […]

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Word experienced an error trying to open the file

May 8, 2013May 8, 2013 Gus FraserBlog

The Problem Opening a Word document from Office 365 using Word 2010 or 2013 results in the following: The Cause There cause is actually Word’s default security settings… probably a good thing! The Solution You can resolve this issue in […]

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SharePoint Evolution 2013 – #COM716 Slides

April 24, 2013April 24, 2013 Gus FraserBlog

Last week was another excellent conference – SharePoint Evolution is one of these environments where you will see a bunch of other speakers attending sessions and taking notes, learning from each other’s real world experience. In particular AC’s (Andrew Connell) […]

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Speaking at the SharePoint Evolution Conference

March 11, 2013March 12, 2013 Gus FraserBlog, SharePoint, Speaking

I’m humbled and honoured to be speaking at Combined Knowledge’s SharePoint conference again this year – the list of speakers really reads like a who’s who in the SharePoint world.   It’s a fantastic conference with great real world content […]

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SharePoint Saturday UK Slides – SharePoint & SQL BI

December 8, 2012December 8, 2012 Gus FraserBlog

Thanks to everybody who came to my session on BI for the Masses… in the last 24 hours I built a fresh SharePoint 2010 farm and all the SQL BI stack demonstrated including Reporting Services, Tabular Analysis Services, PowerView, Power […]

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SharePoint Saturday UK 8th December

November 29, 2012December 6, 2012 Gus FraserBlog, Business Intelligence, Community, SharePoint, Speaking

I’m really excited to be speaking at SharePoint Saturday UK next weekend, this time about SharePoint & Business Intelligence – based around SQL 2012 improvements but something for everybody (even SharePoint Foundation users!). SharePoint Saturday in the UK is by […]

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PowerShell to disable Application Pool timeouts

October 26, 2012December 6, 2012 Gus FraserBlog, Microsoft, PowerShell

There are few things more annoying in life than debugging in Visual Studio and getting an App Pool timeout in IIS7+ and having to start again… See below my PowerShell script to disable this on all application pools. Disclaimer: Only […]

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Balsamiq vs PowerPoint storyboarding with VS 2012

September 13, 2012December 6, 2012 Gus FraserBlog, SharePoint, Storyboard, Wireframe

I couldn’t fit my response to a brief discussion on Twitter regarding wireframing/storyboarding options into 140 characters… so following are some useful links and background on what may work for you to illustrate your amazing new app/solution/product. Balsamiq I love […]

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Installing Windows 8 on Lenovo W520 from USB

August 16, 2012December 6, 2012 Gus FraserBlog, Gadgets, Windows 8

A few minor gotchas when installing Windows 8 RTM on my Lenovo W520 – may affect others with Optimus switchable graphics, or other Lenovos. Issues encountered initially include: USB Boot drive not being picked up properly Stuck / hung on […]

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