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Activating Windows 8 Enterprise RTM – 0x8007007B

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

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 […]

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CRM 2011 & SharePoint 2010 Actions Dropdown Missing

July 16, 2012December 6, 2012 Gus FraserBlog, Cloud, CRM, Office365, SharePoint

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 […]

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Collaboration is the key to successful business

July 4, 2012December 6, 2012 Gus FraserBlog, Press, SharePoint

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 […]

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VMWare Workstation 8 & Windows Server 2012 RC0

June 29, 2012December 6, 2012 Gus FraserBlog, SharePoint, Virtualization, VMWare

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 […]

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International SharePoint Conference Slides

April 28, 2012December 6, 2012 Gus FraserBlog, Community, Microsoft, SharePoint, Speaking

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 […]

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Office 365: The server block is not well formed

March 22, 2012December 6, 2012 Gus FraserBlog, Cloud, Office365, SharePoint

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 […]

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Making Better Decisions with Self-Service Business Intelligence & SharePoint

March 21, 2012December 6, 2012 Gus FraserBlog, Business Intelligence, Events, Microsoft, SharePoint, Speaking, SQL

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 […]

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Office365 – Open PDF in the Browser

March 2, 2012December 6, 2012 Gus FraserBlog, Office365, PowerShell, SharePoint

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 […]

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Excel Services Web Access on Cloudshare

February 16, 2012December 6, 2012 Gus FraserBlog, Cloud, SharePoint

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! […]

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Moving WHS 2011 Client Computer Backups

February 1, 2012December 6, 2012 Gus FraserBlog, WHS

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 […]

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