Blurting about technology
The Problem I came across the following error message when activating Windows 8 Enterprise x64 RTM en-gb, downloaded from MSDN: “Error 0x8007007B The File name, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.” The Solution Using the key provided to […]
The Problem You have configured CRM 2011 (online or on-premises) to store documents in SharePoint (online/Office365 or on-premises). Maybe you followed this excellent guide (SharePoint online) or this guide (SharePoint on-premises). Whichever way, you will have downloaded & deployed the […]
For anybody lucky enough to be flying wonderful Blue Islands in the near future (no credit card fees, free name/ticket changes, free baggage!) you get a bonus if you pick up the Blue Islands in-flight magazine as you get to […]
With VMWare Workstation 8, you may encounter display issues after installing VMWare Tools in a Windows Server 2012 RC0 environment. To address this, ensure that the “Accelerate 3D graphics” is checked or you may have weird display issues (I was […]
A great three days at the International SharePoint Conference in London – lots of great content and good to see a lot of the usual faces, always love meeting more of the SharePoint Community. Serious props to Steve & Zoe […]
A curious error occurred on Office365 the other day… nobody was able to access a document library on SharePoint Online – the helpful error message was “The server block is not well formed”… Without access to the server logs I […]
I’ve just finished a couple of packed events on Self-Service BI with SQL and SharePoint… thank you all for attending in Jersey on Guernsey with Dan Hare and Mark Loane – thanks also to David Grady who was instrumental in […]
SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Online have a default setting which prevents certain files (e.g. PDF) from being opened in the browser. This setting is in Central Administration – “Permissive Browser File Handling”, which allows users to open files in […]
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! […]
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 […]