Techblurt: Privacy & Security Perspectives

Category: SharePoint

  • International SharePoint Conference Slides

    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 and the rest of the Combined Knowledge crew for such a well organised conference. Here…

  • Office 365: The server block is not well formed

    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 raised a service request and after trying loads of things that didn’t help I was…

  • Making Better Decisions with Self-Service Business Intelligence & SharePoint

    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 the setup of our fancy new SQL 2012 demos with REAL data… no sight of…

  • Office365 – Open PDF in the Browser

    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 their native applications. This can be considered a security risk… however most organisations I have…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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;…

  • 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…

  • SharePoint 2010 Intranet Branding for Developers

    Thanks to everybody for coming to a packed session on Intranet Branding for Developers at SharePoint Saturday UK – as promised please find the slides and code below SharePoint Saturday UK – Intranet Branding for Developers View more presentations from gusfraser The code is available here: http://j.mp/spsuk25 You can ping me on twitter for questions…

  • 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 –…