One of the common tasks of a SharePoint admin in any organization I maintain permissions across their farms for users. But what happens when a user leaves your organization and you wish to copy or clone the permissions to the new employee? Well out of the SharePoint box you cannot do this but one of …
Monthly Archive: October 2011
Oct 30
SharePoint conference live bloggers team picture
After almost 3 weeks I have finally caught up with work and my family so I have got around to getting the pictures from the SharePoint conference in Anaheim off my camera We did manage to get a live bloggers team picture not everyone was able to get to the team picture location but that …
Oct 27
Movember SharePoint Style – Donate and support the Prostate Cancer Charity
Hello Everyone, Next week on the 1st November, several of us SharePoint folk will be shaving our faces and spending the entire month growing a moustache worthy of £1, £5 or £10 of anyone’s hard earned money. If you would like to support us and I hope you can dig deep and do so, please …
Oct 21
Why the hell would you put video assets in SharePoint?
Recently I have seen a lot in blogs and presentations about remote blob storage with SQL and SharePoint 2010 I have also had many conversations around the subject which seems to be cropping up more and more. I think this very much ties into the growth model around SharePoint usage where allegedly Microsoft is selling …
Oct 20
SharePoint Conference: Session SPC402 Ribbon Development and Extensibility
This blog post is about the session, SPC402, Deep Dive on SharePoint Ribbon Development & Extensibility that was given at the SharePoint Conference 2011, Anaheim, CA and presented by two SharePoint Server MVPs, Andrew Connell and Chris O’Brien. AC and Chris labelled this session together with the sample files as The Ribbon starter pack. …
Oct 19
Conference Resources
First off, apologies for not being more active during Conference. I lost my tablet charger on the plane into Anaheim and my intent was to blog during sessions. By the time evening events ended, I was too tired to even boot up my laptop. I have a few sessions I’m going to try to recap …
Oct 19
WordPress with Active Directory and Single Sign On
The internet has quickly become full of various different blogging sites with people eager to post and share information to others. My first interest in blogging led me to discover that there are many tools fit for purpose, each with their own merits. Joomla is a great piece of software for designers and web developers …
Oct 18
#SPC230: Hallmark Retail Connect – Connecting Hallmark Gold Crown Stores
This is a session that I wasn’t able to attend live at the conference, and I’m just now finally finding the time to catch the recorded presentation. This session is very interesting to me because my company recently launched a dealer Extranet in SharePoint 2010 that appears by the description of this session to be …
Oct 16
Look Back at my SPC 11
Hi Everyone, I was one of the live bloggers for the SPC11 but i just had to little time to do some real blogging and i feel bad about it. So for all people this is a short story what i did think of the SPC11. Overall i liked the event very much but a …





