Chris McKinley

Author's details

Name: Chris McKinley
Date registered: May 12, 2010
URL: http://www.sharepointedutech.com

Latest posts

  1. Changing Office 365 Password Policy — December 12, 2011
  2. SharePoint 2010 CSS Page Elements Cheat Sheet — July 12, 2011
  3. Editing Office Documents from SharePoint 2010 through TMG — February 17, 2011
  4. To BLOB or not to BLOB. RBS in SharePoint 2010 — November 30, 2010
  5. Use Powershell to delete Outlook offline address book remotely. — September 2, 2010

Most commented posts

  1. Opening PDFs in SharePoint 2010 — 48 comments
  2. SharePoint 2010 Cannot open workbook because it’s not stored in an Excel Services Application trusted location — 24 comments
  3. To BLOB or not to BLOB. RBS in SharePoint 2010 — 10 comments
  4. Create SharePoint 2010 sites using PowerShell reading an XML file — 9 comments
  5. Using Microsoft Word 2010 to blog on WordPress — 8 comments

Author's posts listings

Dec
12

Changing Office 365 Password Policy

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      By default your Office 365 password will expire every 90 days or so. This can be annoying. Simple solution is just to set the password policy to never expire passwords. This will also let you reset your password back to your well-remembered old one, so this fix can be run before or …

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Jul
12

SharePoint 2010 CSS Page Elements Cheat Sheet

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Today i had to send some details of CSS Elements on a SharePoint page to one of our customers so i thought this may be useful to share with others I have also included the CSS at the bottom of the post .s4-toplinks { background-color: #899DC2; } body #s4-ribboncont { background-color:#4D6193; } .v4master .ms-siteactionsmenuinner { background-color:#949391; } …

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Feb
17

Editing Office Documents from SharePoint 2010 through TMG

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We are experiencing a problem with TMG and SharePoint 2010. This issue is also experienced at another network running SP2010 through TMG. Below is a question I posted on SharePointOverflow, but sadly no answer has arrived. “We currently surface a SharePoint 2010 site through TMG. We have office web apps installed and they allow documents …

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Nov
30

To BLOB or not to BLOB. RBS in SharePoint 2010

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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 …

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Sep
02

Use Powershell to delete Outlook offline address book remotely.

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Over the summer we moved mail to Exchange 2010 sp1 and being a school we also have new members of staff joining. The result is that a few people are having trouble finding certain people in their outlook address book when they get back after their summer break. I’ve done a quick powershell script to …

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Aug
23

Remove the gap between the Icon and Title in SharePoint 2010 document library

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It’s hard to explain what I mean in words so here is a picture: See how the icons do not sit right next to the title of the item and you are left with masses of white space. This bug only seams to appear in IE8 and in firefox it works just fine. The picture …

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Aug
13

Fully Virtualised Environments in HyperV. Theory meets reality head on!

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You may be aware of a constant debate that goes on between myself, Dave and a few others in education about running virtual environments and whether they should/could be 100% virtual of if you would need some physical domain controllers put into the mix. If you’re not familiar with the debate have a quick read …

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Jul
14

Branding your SharePoint 2010 Gateway

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Today I had the pleasure of presenting at the Learning Gateway Conference on the topic of branding SharePoint I’m going to write a few blog posts going into more detail but for now I just wanted to get the slide deck up. Lg conf branding View more presentations from crmckinley. Technorati Tags: branding, CSS, LGCUK10, …

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Jun
30

Microsoft Expression Sketchflow

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At Twynham we always find the best way to start a new SharePoint project is to get it drawn out, preferably by the end user. This can come back to us in many forms from a pencil and paper sketch through to a fully blown Visio diagram. I stumbled across this video that shows off …

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