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Figure 1 - SkyDrive home page Windows Live SkyDrive is an online file storage and sharing system which can be used to replace a traditional FTP server. http://skydrive.live.com Sign in with a Windows Live ID (you can create one if you don’t already have...
Did you know that if you start the DNS client service on a Windows Server 2003 box, that it will ignore entries in a hosts file and proceed out to the Internet to resolve the name? THAT was fun during a demo. http://publishing.sample.com takes you to...
I found this today while trying to talk a friend through the administration of her wireless Linksys router. Linksys has put an online representation of all of their devices' admin applications across all the versions on this site - http://ui.linksys...
If you are adding web front ends to a farm, be sure your app server and web front ends are at the same code base or you may experience failures trying to run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard. Our farm had hotfixes 313243 and 316200 applied to the application...
You tell them to do things and they partly do it. My gripe with MakeCab is that the files in the CBA archive (or wsp) don't use the same date stamp as what Windows Explorer uses. Building a DLL and as part of a post-build step you're putting the...
I've been working recently on a lot of code which needed debugging inside of SharePoint. One of the frustrating aspects of SharePoint development is the annoying debugging story. Click Debug, click Attach to Process, click your desired process(es...
If you are creating an externally accessible portal or extranet with SharePoint which uses Forms based authentication, business requirements such as Search and ECM Publishing might require you to create an intranet portal which uses NTLM or Kerberos authentication...
I've finally finished (almost) with the project that has been keeping me up late at night. I want to thank Doug Ware , Brendon Schwartz , Dan Attis , and Adam Buenz for all the help they gave me over the past several months while I struggled to bring...
OK - so I'm a bit irritated, but this is a great case of Microsoft's dev teams doing something which contradicts documentation and expected behavior. Here is the story, including the business case which this bug stomps all over. Doug Ware (formerly of...
The online documentation for the phone makes it seem like using the 3G phone as a wirelessly tethered modem is impossible. However, a quick search of the web found the following directions, which I have re-organized for easier consumption. Here are the...
Have you ever worked on some of those one and two thousand line stored procedures where the indentation was so messed up you couldn't really tell where that left outer join fit in? Wouldn't it be nice if there was a tool out there which would automatically...
In an effort to resolve a Kerberos authentication problem affecting Sql Server Reporting Services, a change was made to the security policy on the domain controller while following the advice of this Microsoft TechNet article . This change DID fix the...
Most of this I can't disclose, other than to say that I've got a new Business Intelligence talk to work on based on some of what I've seen. Really neat stuff.
The client location I'm at now uses a ClickOnce deployed Windows application to perform some highly critical business functions. Some time in the last two or three weeks, the application's certificate expired. We tried to deploy an update and everything...
Random problem with a relatively innovative discovery method. I am working with an app that sends and receives buckets of data via web services. In one particular case, I was receiving a couple of purchase orders' worth of details and attempting to turn...
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