TechEd Europe 2013 – getting ready…
Hola! This year I’ve been invited to Microsoft’s TechEd Europe event for what is an overdue return to probably the best Microsoft technology update, training, networking, and general shindig …
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Office 365 SharePoint Online feature matrix spreadsheet
I’ve not seen one of these kicking around anywhere so I’ve created one based on the information from the Microsoft web site. You can download the spreadsheet and filter it …
Mount-SPContentDatabase and Test-SPContentDatabase fail with either Invalid object name ‘Sites’ or ‘Webs’
While trying to restore some SharePoint 2010 “content” databases I kept on getting errors about invalid objects… Found some links talking about incorrect SharePoint versions but as it turned out …
Create Search Server Express 2010 slipstream installation media
While reinstalling Search Server Express 2010 for a customer I found there wasn’t a hughe amount of help out there for how to slipstream Search Server Express 2010. The process …
Best of Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) UK 2013
Today we are at Microsoft’s Cardinal Place offices in London Victoria for ‘Best of MMS’ – a regular fixture in The Full Circle calendar for a rapid-fire immersion in the …
QR Codes in a SharePoint List
Connecting the physical and digital world with SharePoint 2010 and QR codes. I’m on-site in Vietnam with a customer who is starting their SharePoint journey as well the wider …
Adding a second WordPress site to Windows Azure
We needed to deploy a development instance of WordPress for our soon-to-be built new public site so I looked at adding a second instance to our existing Azure subscription. Going …
Edition downgrade for SharePoint Search Server Express 2010 from SQL 2008 R2 Enterprise to SQL 2012 Express
This is just a quick post to highlight issues with two SharePoint Search Server Express 2010 databases when downgrading from SQL 2008 R2 Enterprise to SQL 2012 Express (although applies …
Create a SharePoint group with permissions and add an AD group to it
Requirement Create a SharePoint group in a site collection Assign that group an existing permission for Site Permissions list Add an Active Directory group to that SharePoint group Read the …
Stop Excel documents opening in the browser on SharePoint
I had to spend a little time today stopping Excel documents opening in the browser. Following the advice on the web didn’t really help and I was sure I had …