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SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night  
Tue, Jan 6th 2009 7:55p Spence
SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night will be making a welcome return during the SharePoint Best Practices Conference early February in San Diego. This casual event will take place on Tuesday 3rd February at La Jolla Brew House at around 7pm. If you are coming along please sign up over here to give us an idea of numbers. [read] Keywords: archive
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MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Products and Technologies for Internet Site Development: Content Deployment
Wed, Dec 31st 2008 12:56a Spence
On Tuesday, January 06 I will be presenting a MSDN Webcast as part of the SharePoint for Internet Site Development series. This will take place at 11:00 AM Pacific Time, which is 19.00 PM GMT. I get all the fun topics, and I will be covering Content Deployment and even doing Content Deployment against a real site live during the Web Cast! :) The sign up page is: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032396926&Culture=en-US Content deployment enables you to run an Inte [read] Keywords: archive
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Issues with harbar.net
Tue, Dec 30th 2008 7:59p Spence
Apologies to all of you who tried to submit comments or contact me through harbar.net over the last couple of weeks. Unfortunately for me this was down to an assortment of issues with my hosting provider, who were unable to offer any reasonable assistance whatsoever. I thought things were a bit quiet and I have been suffering all manner of problems with the hoster since their “platform upgrade”. On my return to work after Christmas I did a bunch of tests and after yet more ineptitude on the [read] Keywords: archive
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SharePoint Central Administration: High Availability, Load Balancing, Security & General Recommendations 
Fri, Dec 26th 2008 7:56p Spence
I keep getting sandbagged by folks on the topic of the SharePoint Central Administration (SPCA) application, and there is still considerable confusion about how SPCA should be best deployed within a farm topology, how to make it “Highly Available” and “Secure”. Most of the queries are around what I do in my deployments and what recommendations I have for SPCA. Therefore this article covers these topics along with some additional discussion and general recommendations.
Running Central [read] Keywords: administration
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Things I want in Windows 7
Sun, Dec 21st 2008 7:55p Spence
There’s a bunch of cool stuff coming in Windows 7 if the things they showed and talked about at PDC make it into the final release. But there’s plenty of things which are reasonably basic which I believe would make things much better, especially on a laptop. I no longer have a desktop running Vista. My laptop is my desktop (and my laptop when on the road) and this is increasingly common. Don’t get me wrong there’s plenty of things I like about Vista and I’m not one of these XP is bette [read] Keywords: apple
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To “Best Practice” or not to “Best Practice”
Sun, Dec 21st 2008 7:55p Spence
Adam Buenz over on SharePoint Shelter has a nice post titled When Best Practices Aren’t Best Practices. It’s a good read, and pretty much all he says I agree with. There are a few things he doesn’t touch on that I feel like highlighting however, so here goes… The key problem is the term itself. “Best Practices”. I’ve always hated it. “Best Practices”, says who? :) There’s nothing funnier than someone who has been practicing a particular technology for six months spouting off [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Sony eBook Library 2.5 now installs on x64!!!!! :)
Fri, Dec 12th 2008 12:56a Spence
I am happy! The excellent Sony Reader comes with a bit of software – the eBook Library – think of it like iTunes for books. It’s nowhere near as evil as iTunes, but not exactly the greatest bit of software ever built. Anyways it let’s you buy books from Sony and stick them on the Reader. Note you don’t need this – there are two other programs for transferring books. However if you wish to purchase books from Sony (which I do) then you need it. Trouble is previous versions didn’t in [read] Keywords: archive
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Speaking at the Best Practices™ SharePoint Conference
Mon, Dec 8th 2008 7:56p Spence
I am delighted to be speaking again at the second Best Practices™ SharePoint Conference in San Diego, CA, February 2nd thru 4th 2009. The first Best Practices™ SharePoint Conference in Washington, D.C., was a great success with awesome speakers, community events and a fantastic turnout of knowledgeable attendees. What really set this conference apart was it’s independent nature and it’s focus on real world, best practices from field deployments. This conference is not Tech Ed where a bun [read] Keywords: archive
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Platform Hygiene: Get your SharePoint updated. Now!
Mon, Dec 8th 2008 7:56p Spence
By now you should definitely have your nuggin’ around SharePoint updates, and be on a decent build. A decent build like the Infrastructure Updates, or better yet the October Cumulative Updates. Of course there are some more coming in a couple weeks. Keep up to date with my Post SP1 hot fixes article here.
The trouble is lots of folk don’t bother and are still running RTM. Oh dear! However this is understandable, a lot of customers are running quite happily (don’t laugh, there are some, rea [read] Keywords: archive
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Christmas Present Recommendations
Sun, Nov 30th 2008 7:56p Spence
My buddy Nick Swan went and tagged me with one of these meme things. This time I’m supposed to come up five Christmas pressie recommendations – primarily gadgets. It was a bit tricky but here goes. 1. Sony PRS700 – electronic book reader. The Sony Reader is by far and away the best electronic book reader on the market, I’ve tried all of them. If you can live with the Sony ebook store limitations (which aren’t that bad actually, and of course you don’t have to use it!) it’s the mu [read] Keywords: R5
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SUGUK Edinburgh Meeting - Mythbusters
Fri, Nov 28th 2008 7:56p Spence
Many thanks to all those who attended yesterday evening’s SharePoint User Group UK Meeting at the Scottish Parliament. Big shout to Steven Hynds once again for organizing the excellent venue. As promised, the slide deck for my presentation is now available. For Andrew’s TDD whitepaper, please head on over to his site at www.21apps.com. If you have feedback on the event, or other suggestions for future topics please post them to the SUGUK forums. We look forward to future SUGUK events in Sco [read] Keywords: archive
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Triple Boot MacBook Pro Update: Running the Vista x64 Partition in VMWare Fusion.
Fri, Nov 28th 2008 7:56p Spence
A while back I posted my popular article series, Triple Boot MacBook Pro, which described the steps necessary to configure a three-way system running Mac OS, Windows Vista x64 and Windows Server 2008 x64.
At the time it was unfortunately not possible make use of VMWare Fusion’s killer feature – running a VM directly from the Boot Camp partition (no VHDs). This was due to a couple of “issues”, which have thankfully now been addressed by VMWare.
This article explains the issues and details [read] Keywords: archive
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Scripted Farm Deployments
Wed, Nov 26th 2008 7:56p Spence
It took a while but the Using scripts to automate SharePoint Server 2007 installation guidance has finally been published. Chris Smith details the release over on ToTheSharePoint. The best thing about this release are the examples and sample code, however I caution you to test appropriately and don’t be fooled into believing the premise that it’s just better. That my friends, isn’t true. Unfortunately the vendor has a nasty habit of arrogantly saying “you should be doing it like this… [read] Keywords: archive
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SharePoint 2007 Post SP1 Hotfixes Updated
Wed, Nov 26th 2008 7:56p Spence
Finally got around to uploading an update to my fixes article. Apologies for the delay, my excuse is my hosting “provider”, and I’m sticking to it :) SharePoint 2007 Post SP1 Hotfixes [read] Keywords: archive
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Typemock Isolator for SharePoint
Mon, Nov 24th 2008 7:56p Spence
Those crazy kids at Typemock have announced Isolator for sharepoint: It is almost the same as Typemock Isolator, but will only work on APIs that are directly connected with sharepoint’s API. That means that if you only need to test sharepoint stuff, you can get a powerful product, for a much cheaper price than the full Isolator (you can always upgrade later if you need to isolate more APIs). Info for masses, how to get free licence: Typemock are offering their new product for unit testi [read] Keywords: application
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Arpan Shah on the SharePoint Pod Show
Mon, Nov 24th 2008 7:56p Spence
Check out my good friend Arpan Shah, waxing lyrical on the SharePoint Pod Show! SharePoint in the Cloud, SharePoint and Azure, and Questions on SharePoint 14 and Office 14-Episode 11 [read] Keywords: archive
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SUGUK Edinburgh Meeting, November 27th
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 7:59p Spence
We are pleased to be back again at the Scottish Parliament for another evening of SharePoint at 6.30pm, November 27th. Many thanks to Stephen Hynds for facilitating the event.
If you want to come along, please go here and register your name, otherwise the security peeps won’t let you in the building, this is after all the seat of the Scottish Government. There will doubtless be a few sherberts following the event.
Spencer Harbar SharePoint MVP - MythBusters – debunking common SharePoin [read] Keywords: archive
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Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 12:53a Spence
During TechEd ITForum a couple weeks ago, Microsoft announced the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) for Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Pretty quickly a micro-debate started on this and a few people posted their thoughts on blogs. I promised at the time to do a post that detailed out the salient points, which unfortunately have been missed thus far. There has also been a lot of complaints regarding the associated cost. S [read] Keywords: application
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SUGUK Edinburgh Meeting, November 27th
Wed, Nov 19th 2008 7:53p Spence
We are pleased to be back again at the Scottish Parliament for another evening of SharePoint at 6.30pm, November 27th. Many thanks to Stephen Hynds for facilitating the event.
If you want to come along, please go here and register your name, otherwise the security peeps won’t let you in the building, this is after all the seat of the Scottish Government. There will doubtless be a few sherberts following the event.
Spencer Harbar SharePoint MVP - MythBusters – debunking common SharePoint Farm [read] Keywords: archive
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Issues with my Hosting provider
Wed, Nov 19th 2008 7:53p Spence
I'm currently having "issues" with my hosting provider, and you will notice that some recent posts are missing. I'm working on getting these back. Please bear with me - normal service will be resumed shortly (I hope). [read] Keywords: archive
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SUGUK Edinburgh Meeting, November 27th
Sun, Nov 16th 2008 7:52p Spence
We are pleased to be back again at the Scottish Parliament for another evening of SharePoint at 6.30pm, November 27th. Many thanks to Stephen Hynds for facilitating the event. If you want to come along, please go here and register your name, otherwise the security peeps won’t let you in the building, this is after all the seat of the Scottish Government. There will doubtless be a few sherberts following the event. Spencer Harbar SharePoint MVP - MythBusters – debunking common SharePoint Far [read] Keywords: archive
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Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint Announced at TechEd EMEA Developers 2008
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 7:56p Spence
Server Explorer for SharePoint viewing Lists and other artifacts in SharePoint directly inside of Visual Studio Windows SharePoint Services Project (WSP file) Import to create a new solution Added a new web part project item and showed the Visual web part designer which loads a user control as a web part for SharePoint Showed adding an event receiver for SharePoint and using the wizard to choose the event receiver and to just create a source file with that event receiver. Added an ASPX w [read] Keywords: designer
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SharePoint by Day, SharePint by night – TechEd EMEA
Sat, Nov 8th 2008 7:55p Spence
We're exporting SharePoint by Day, SharePint by night, the social event for SharePoint professionals! SharePint will be on Sunday night, November 9, 2008 @ 8p at Sala Monasterio. Please leave a comment on Andrew Connell’s post to give us an idea how many people we're looking at. For those of you who've never attended a SharePint, it's pretty simple: consider it a birds-of-a-feather social event for SharePoint folks that's very lose and unstructured. [read] Keywords: archive
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Best Practices for Enterprise User Scalability in SharePoint
Sat, Nov 1st 2008 12:52a Spence
Joel has just posted a killer entry on his blog:
Best Practices for Enterprise User Scalability in SharePoint
Best Practices for Overcoming the 64K ACL, Security Principal Limits, and Future of Identity Management
If you are a SharePoint "Architect", or at least belive you are :) you must read this material. Don't believe the hype or waffle about ACL limits, DIP sizes or any other rambling of the sort - head over right now to Joel's blog and get the real skinny. [read] Keywords: acl
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Windows 7 on MacBook Pro
Sat, Nov 1st 2008 12:52a Spence
During the PDC a number of folk asked me about running Windows 7 on the Mac - using BootCamp as per my Triple Boot MacBook Pro article series. I was always planning on giving it a shot as soon as I got "the goods". Whilst it might seem really obvious, the real question is:
do the bootcamp drivers for all the stuff (right click for example :)) work on Windows 7?
I can confirm that indeed they do - or at least appear to - I've done this on my 17" MBP which is the generation before the recent [read] Keywords: javascript
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Simple example of why Microsoft.Web.Administration rocks
Thu, Oct 30th 2008 12:53a Spence
I've had a bunch of requests to start talking more about IIS7 development and whilst I've covered some examples of this previously in my SharePoint and Windows 2008 presentations I thought I'd start by providing a very simple example from APM. This is also to answer (bizarrely) the same question from two readers of this blog. This example shows how to retrieve a list of Application Pools on the box. You'd think this would be straightforward and efficient right? and easy to do in managed code wit [read] Keywords: administration
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Application Pool Manager v2 (finally)
Wed, Oct 29th 2008 12:52a Spence
Yesterday during the opening PDC keynote I did the final release build of APM v2 and posted it for download. Unfortunately due to a combination of sucky wireless and power "issues" I have only now got around to posting an announcement here.
Since the initial release of APM it's grown many arms and legs and it has been amazingly popular. By version 1.2 the code had become pretty disgusting and hard to maintain (even for something which does very little). Therefore this release is a complete [read] Keywords: administration
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SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night - PDC2008 Edition
Thu, Oct 16th 2008 12:59a Spence
Blimey, it's almost time for another PDC. This will be my forth PDC event and I'm looking forward to it. This year it's again in LA, and this year it hasn't been cancelled :) There's not much SharePoint at the event. And that's OK - indeed it's one of the reasons I'm going :) There is however some interesting introductory material - check out the details over on Paul Andrew's blog of the SharePoint related sessions. A small group of SharePoint MVPs will be in town along with some blue badge typ [read] Keywords: archive
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Prescriptive Guidance for SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Sites
Thu, Oct 9th 2008 8:05p Spence
I'm often asked for "best practices" for developing Web Content Management (aka Publishing) sites with MOSS 2007. "Best Practices" is dodgy ground, as the best practice for one given project could very possibly be the worst practice for another. Prescriptive guidance on the other hand is much more useful, MSDN has just published an excellent article in this space authored by my buddy Andrew Connell: Publishing sites adhere to most, if not all, of the prescriptive guidance and generally accepted [read] Keywords: archive
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Estimate performance and capacity requirements for InfoPath Forms Services environments (Office SharePoint Server)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 12:55a Spence
For along time there's been a significant gap in the perf and cap planning guides around the InfoPath Forms Services features of MOSS. I'm very pleased to see this gap now filled with the below recent publication. Essential for those architect-ing MOSS Enterprise deployments: This performance and capacity planning scenario incorporates a single Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm that is running InfoPath Forms Services Estimate performance and capacity requirements for InfoPath Forms [read] Keywords: forms
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SharePoint 2007 Post SP1 Hotfixes
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 12:55a Spence
I finally got around to updating my list of post SP1 fixes, which is now fully up to date. Well until they make some more that is! SharePoint 2007 Post SP1 Hotfixes [read] Keywords: archive
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Investing in Logical Architecture Design Samples
Thu, Sep 18th 2008 2:52a Spence
Thanks to all those who attended my session this morning at the Best Practices Conference on Global Taxonomies. As promised, below is a link to the logical architecture design samples, of which I showed a couple. From here you can get the Visio diagrams and also read an in depth article on the design trade offs which led to the example Logical Architecture. Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Investing in Logical Architecture Design Samples Also, more recently a variation on the above theme has [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Farewell Patrick
Fri, Sep 5th 2008 10:52p Spence
Very late yesterday I found out that Patrick Tisseghem, a friend and one of the world's leading SharePoint authorities had passed away suddenly. Patrick was one of the very best guys - both to work with and to have fun with. He will be greatly missed, and my thoughts are with his family and other friends at this time. [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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SharePoint Administration Toolkit 2.0 is Now Available!
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 10:54a Spence
I've done a bunch of geo-dispersed SharePoint deployments recently, and most of them make use of the Global My Sites capability. This works very well, basically by redirecting users to the correct Web Application based on Audiences. Sure there are some limitations within the My Sites, but none that make the geo-distribution of them a poor compromise. However the problem with any solution in this space is the need to manage multiple Farms, and more importantly multiple SSPs. For the My Sites sc [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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FREE SharePoint Reporting - CardioLog Lite
Thu, Aug 28th 2008 9:53a Spence
FINALLY, a decent solution for SharePoint Reporting - for free! Check it out: FREE SharePoint Reporting - CardioLog Lite The visitor segmentation and light javascript implementation are perfect for small to medium size environments, looking to improve the OOTB reporting. Intlock also provide a bunch of other report bundles and paid for versions for more demanding situations. I definitely encourage you to evaluate this edition, which you can download and install on your test machines quickly [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Beginners Guide to Test Driven Web Part Development
Wed, Aug 27th 2008 7:52a Spence
My buddy and fellow SharePoint Junkie/MVP, Andrew Woodward, has put together a nice white paper which walks you through the steps necessary to get started with Test Driven SharePoint Development. This is a really good 101 for those who don't know what TDD is all about, or for those that do but are struggling with using it within SharePoint development projects. This paper is the first in a series that he is putting together, so keep an eye on his blog or better yet, subscribe. Beginners Guide t [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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International SharePoint Professionals Association (“ISPA”)
Thu, Aug 7th 2008 1:54p Spence
I'm pleased to announce I have joined the board of the International SharePoint Professionals Association (“ISPA”). ISPA is a professional association dedicated to the promotion and global adoption of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. The Association provides support and guidance to the community by establishing connections between SharePoint professionals and groups, resources, education and information. I'm very excited to be working with a great team to drive this much n [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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SharePoint Best Practices Conference
Thu, Jul 24th 2008 11:56a Spence
September 15th - 17th, Washington, DC. I'm pleased to be presenting a couple sessions at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference this September in Washington, DC. I hope to see some of you there. For more information, please check out the conference web site at http://www.sharepointbestpractices.com/. It promises to be a great event with some great speakers and excellent material from the real world of SharePoint deployments - not much marketing spin here is what I'm saying :). If you register [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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By the community, for the community - ISPA
Thu, Jul 17th 2008 8:53a Spence
...and little if any vendor involvement - just the way it's supposed to be. Today, well yesterday actually, the Independent SharePoint Professionals Association officially launched. The Association provides support and guidance to the community by establishing connections between SharePoint professionals and groups, resources, education and information. For more information, visit their web site and be sure to join right away. I'm pleased to be one of the regional leads for EMEA, and want to tak [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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More on the Infrastructure Updates: Kerberos and SSP Web Services
Wed, Jul 16th 2008 11:53a Spence
What's the best thing about the recently released Infrastructure Updates for SharePoint 2007? The super cool new search functionality? Content Deployment fixes? Improvements in performance and security? Nope, none of those me ole china, it's the new support for Kerberos Authentication for the SSP Web Services. This was only previously possible with a heinous hack that I promised I would never detail publicly due to it's nastiness. The problem was that the SSP Web Services run under a IIS Virtual [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Infrastructure Updates Available
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 7:52p Spence
The Infrastructure Updates for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 are now available. I've also updated my Post SP1 Hotfixes article.
Key updates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 include:
Platform performance improvements and fixes.
Several backup and restore fixes.
Several core Workflow fixes.
Key updates for SharePoint Server 2007 include:
New Search features such as federated search and a unified search administration dashboard.
Several core fixes to Search to improve performance and scale [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Content Deployment QFE KB Articles now live
Wed, Jul 2nd 2008 3:54a Spence
Finally the KB articles detailing the Content Migration and Content Deployment fixes are live on support.microsoft.com. I've also update my Post SP1 Hotfixes article with these links. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/952698 (WSS) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952704 (MOSS) [read] Keywords: archive
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Apple Keyboard Layout for Virtual Machines
Mon, Jun 30th 2008 7:53a Spence
One of the freakiest things about running on an excellent MacBook Pro is the keyboard layout. Keys in the wrong place and a few missing ones like #, PrtScr and AltGr. Once you get used to it it's all good however. There's combinations and so forth to get at things you need. The trouble is just as you've gotten used to it, you fire up those development virtual machines and they don't know squat about the Apple keyboard. This is because the custom Input mapping installed as part of the Boot Camp p [read] Keywords: apple
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Installing applications on Windows Server 2008 or Vista x64
Mon, Jun 30th 2008 12:52a Spence
You know the score - you've a couple of indispensable applications which refuse to install on your operating system of choice because the idjut vendor decided it would be a good idea to bake into the installer some sort of version check. This is usually when you're trying to use a 64 bit operating system or wish to install something on a server OS. I have a couple examples - Sony's Ereader is a must have for me, but the installer doesn't like 64 bit. Others include Live Messenger and LifeCam whi [read] Keywords: applications
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SUGUK Edinburgh: Slide Deck
Tue, Jun 24th 2008 6:53p Spence
Thanks to all who attended the Edinburgh SUGUK meeting last week for a great event. A big shout out to Steven Hynds and crew for facilitating the venue. The slide deck for my talk can be found here. Hope to see you again soon (probably towards the back of August) for more SUGUK events north of the border! [read] Keywords: archive
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Reminder: SUGUK Edinburgh Meeting on Thursday
Tue, Jun 17th 2008 5:53a Spence
Just a quick reminder, if you are planning on attending the SUGUK Meeting at the Parliament building in Edinburgh this Thursday, please sign up over at the SUGUK Forms. [read] Keywords: archive
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Enabling Bluetooth on MacBook Pro and Windows Server 2008 x64
Fri, Jun 13th 2008 7:53a Spence
As you may have noticed, I've been getting a bit carried away with my shiny MacBook Pro of late. I have this bad boy set up to triple boot Mac OS, Vista x64 and Windows Server 2008 x64. The idea here is to have a small Win2k8 partition running MOSS for demos/presentations (and the odd bit of coding) running on the metal rather than in a VM. The latest Boot Camp drivers enable this goodness, they all work flawlessly. All that is, apart from the Bluetooth stack. This is a problem because I use the [read] Keywords: apple
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Web Content Management Resource Center for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Thu, Jun 5th 2008 7:52p Spence
Check it: This page provides resources for IT pros to help you plan and implement a Web Content Management (WCM) solution using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Web Content Management Resource Center for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Even easier way to obtain MSFT hotfixes
Wed, May 28th 2008 7:07a Spence
For a while now Microsoft have been offering online hotfix requests which minimise the need to call CSS and raise an incident to get your hands on a hotfix. However the link to the request form was hidden in the "hotfix information" section of the KB and often missed by customers. Today support.microsoft.com have improved things significantly with the following graphic at the very top of each KB article for which a download is available: This takes you to an improved hotfix request form allowi [read] Keywords: CSS
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Leveraging the platform - Caching in SharePoint WCM scenarios
Sun, May 25th 2008 12:44a Spence
Late Friday afternoon/evening I had an interesting call with a customer who was experiencing severe perceived poor performance on their SharePoint 2007 WCM application. The problem was resolved simply by implementing OOTB functionality - namely Caching, in particular the disk-based caching, and they agreed it was appropriate to post here.
Basically the site is a regular Publishing site albeit used for the most part internally. The site does feature however a significant amount of "binary content [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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SharePoint 2007 Post SP1 Fixes
Sat, May 24th 2008 11:46p Spence
This is a list of the post Service Pack 1 hotfix packages for SharePoint 2007, primarily for my own reference. This is not a list of fixes, but rather the update packages.
[[UPDATE]] Updated and moved to: www.harbar.net/articles/postsp1.aspx. [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Office SharePoint Server for Internet Sites Licensing
Fri, May 23rd 2008 9:51a Spence
Consistently and by a considerable margin, the most popular search terms that lead people to this site are around MOSS Licensing and the For Internet Sites (MOSS FIS) edition. This is also a hot topic in customer engagements, in classrroms, at conferences such as TechEd and in general conversations about using SharePoint 2007 for Internet sites. This is not all that surprising given the amount of misinformation out there. In addition Microsoft obfuscate the topic with many layers of misdirection [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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New version of Application Pool Manager
Fri, May 23rd 2008 6:15a Spence
Finally managed to finish up a new version of the Application Pool Recycle Utility for SharePoint Developers! This release features many enhancements and a couple new features based on feedback. You can download the new release and view more information here. [Update 26/05/2008] Please note this is the last major release of the original codebase. Whilst minor fixes will continue to be made, future major releases will target Windows Server 2008 only. [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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How to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 on Vista x64/x86 - The Bamboo Team Blog
Thu, May 22nd 2008 3:46a Spence
Here's an *unsupported* way to get WSS SP1 up and running on Vista. Like I say *unsupported*!!! How to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 on Vista x64/x86 - The Bamboo Team Blog [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Announcing: SharePoint WCM book available at TechEd 2008
Wed, May 21st 2008 1:55p Spence
While the book will be available shortly after this TechEd, we will have the first 1400 copies of the book at TechEd that we'll be giving away. So keep your eyes open when the book releases! If you're coming to TechEd, swing by the SharePoint booth for a chance to get a copy and have Andrew to sign it for you! Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Announcing: SharePoint WCM book available at TechEd 2008 [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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MOSS 2007 Content Deployment QFE Pack Now Available via MSFT CSS
Wed, May 21st 2008 4:07a Spence
Whilst assisting customers recently who are experiencing issues with Content Deployment (CD) in MOSS 2007, it appears CSS now has a huge QFE that addresses a ton of known issues (60+) specific to (CD). For now it looks like you can only get it via Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS). Like other hotfixes, it's likely this QFE pack will be included in a future MOSS update roll up but there are no details or confirmation on this at present. The QFE pack helps address some of the most common [read] Keywords: CSS
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SUGUK hits Edinburgh in June
Mon, May 19th 2008 5:54a Spence
We are pleased to announce the first SUGUK meeting in Edinburgh. The event will take place at the stunning Scottish Parliament (no snide remarks about using it for something useful please!) on Thursday June 19th. A special shout out to Stephen Hynds for organising the venue. If you get there early you'll be able to take a wee tour. The event will include two sessions by Steve Smith and myself: MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008 - Spencer Harbar Learn how to leverage the new and improved featur [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Finally decent x64 drivers for Atheros WLAN in MacBook Pros
Sun, May 18th 2008 3:12p Spence
For those with the pre-Penryn MacBook Pros running Vista x64 you will no doubt be bloomin' annoyed by the conflict issue between the wireless driver and the sound card which results in white noise and annoying clicks and pops when using a WLAN connection. At last a complete fix for this is now available - via - wait for it - Windows Update! Now you could solve this previously for hunting down Atheros drivers from dodgy laptop forum type sites - but that's helva risky. This way is much better! [read] Keywords: archive
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Using Kerberos with SharePoint on Windows Server 2008
Sun, May 18th 2008 7:02a Spence
As I demonstrated during the Kerberos session at the Manchester SUGUK meeting last month, there is an extra step required to enable Kerberos Authentication for SharePoint when using Windows Server 2008. One of the security changes in IIS 7.0 is that Windows Authentication is performed by default in the kernel. This is a good thing! It eases the configuration required for Kerberos and improves performance significantly. Because HTTP.sys is handling the authentication, it is by default done under [read] Keywords: Sharepoint
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Web Deployment Tool Beta 1 (Go Live) just released
Wed, May 14th 2008 6:48a Spence
Wondered what happened to app center?
Want to sync your IIS (and remain supported) Want that sync to include SSL Certs? GAC? Regkeys? DSNs? - well apart from the last two (for which you should be shot) :)
Check out the Web Deployment Tool which has reached Beta 1 and for which there is a Go Live licence. [read] Keywords: archive
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