Nov 30
The SharePoint search engine is a very powerful instrument. When you set up SharePoint this part is sometimes forgotten. When you have a huge content database and you want your users to find something, the default keyword search is not enough. In my organization we use search scopes to find the right information. In this …
Nov 30
To BLOB or not to BLOB? That is the question. This week I have been looking into Remote BLOB Storage for SharePoint 2010. The idea behind BLOB storage is a simple one; rather than storing all your files and meta data in your SQL you move the data (or the Binary Large OBjects) out onto …
Nov 28
Yesterday I wrote a post entitled Tech Ed Europe 2010 Online SharePoint Session Videos this aggregated all the videos from the recent Teched Europe on the subject of SharePoint. Well today I thought I would give the same treatment to my second favourite subject Microsoft virtualization technologies. These videos cover HyperV, AppV and VDI. As …
Nov 27
A couple of days ago Dave asked me to write some post on his weblog. Normally I write my posts in Dutch on my blog (some of the screenshots will be in Dutch). In the following weeks I will translate some of my older posts in English. This is the first one. With the Content …
Nov 27
This year Microsoft have made all the videoed sessions from Tech Ed Europe available from http://www.msteched.com/2010/Europe/ the videos are available in standard and high definition for download and also the slide decks are on the site for download, but I thought I would make a list of all the SharePoint sessions to make it easier …
Nov 26
One of the conferences that I have never attended but always wanted to has been TechEd this year’s event was held in Berlin and the line-up of sessions looked great but luckily enough Microsoft have started to make videos of some of the sessions available online. I found this particular session video by Damien Caro …
Nov 25
I have written quite a few how to guides over the last year which I plan to amalgamate into an EBook and publish on this blog before Christmas this post will also be included. But this post came about after a request we had from a customer on how to configure alerts on his …
Nov 23
Today we had a situation where a customer of ours installed the office web apps on their SharePoint server and found that these did not work correctly, so after contacting us we advised to uninstall and we would help with the reinstall. After restarting the server after the uninstall we fired up the SharePoint configuration …
Nov 23
A while ago I Chris McKinley and Darren White were having a conversation about the future of computer control, this was about 18 months ago and then in January this year at the BETT show it seemed the buzz technology was touch screen with Ben Nunney from Microsoft showing off a touch screen Dell monitor …
