Monthly Archive: April 2010

Apr
29

SQL 2008 Version Numbers and Patch Levels

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While working today on a customers site installing SharePoint 2010 i discovered that i could not connect to create a database using the SharePoint configuration wizard, after digging into SQL with Chris we discovered that the hosting company where using an unpatched version of SQL 2008 which required many updates. So for the sake of my own …

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Apr
27

Twynham Goes Live With SharePoint 2010

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I am pleased to announce that today we at Twynham went live with SharePoint 2010 this has been a long journey for the team at Twynham as we have been on the TAP programme for 2010 since December 2008, this means that we have gone through the Alpha, Beta and on to the release candidate …

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Apr
22

Introduction to SharePoint 2010 Free Event

  We have now added more dates in September and October 2010 and also 3 dates in May 2011 more details to follow shortly UPDATE:- This event is now full a second date has now been added for Monday 14th June Now second event full trying to find a date for a third day! On …

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Apr
22

Changes in SharePoint 2010 RTM Web Apps

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Previously I posted about where’s the save in the SharePoint 2010 Web Apps well today SharePoint 2010 became available on MSDN for download so I am pleased to report that the missing save is almost back, in the Excel web app as you can see from the image below you now have a “Save As” …

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Apr
17

SharePoint Versus the volcano

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Who would have thought a week ago that I would be trapped until Tuesday 20th April in Holland because of a volcano but that is what has happened, I have checked all the options Eurostar, ferry’s etc. but no good, my final plea for help is via Twitter but we will see if the power …

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Apr
16

SharePoint 2010 Goes RTM

Well we finally got there today Microsoft announced the RTM of SharePoint 2010, Office 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010. Volume licence customers will be able to download from April 27th initially in English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Dutch via the Volume Licensing Service Center. Customers without software assurance will be able to purchase …

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Apr
13

SharePoint 2010 Topologies Part 3

Twynham SharePoint 2010 Topology

In my previous post of this series I looked at the standard topologies for SharePoint 2010 through this post I will look at how we at Twynham are going to configure SharePoint 2010 for our environment. We will be deploying SharePoint 2010 and SQL 2008 in a HyperV cluster the configuration for our virtual servers …

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Apr
09

What is it about SharePoint?

A strange title for a post but an apt one, I have been involved with SharePoint since 2001 and back in the early days it was very difficult to find any information about the product but now you are literally tripping over yourself with information and help on blogs worldwide (Including this one) But the …

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Apr
08

TeamTalk 2010 From Zevenseas

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A while back Daniel McPherson from Zevenseas visited Twynham to see what we were doing with SharePoint 2007 and during his visit he showed us a few products that Zevenseas had developed including team status a SharePoint version of Twitter. So I was very pleased last weekend when Daniel tweeted about the improved and SharePoint …

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