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 …
Plugins fail to update on Azure hosted WordPress
Ever since we moved our WordPress blog to Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud hosting platform (see post), plugins have failed to update rendering them broken – this can quickly become a pain if it’s critical such …
Office 2013 Preview & Windows 8: OneNote on Office 365 (SharePoint) won’t open in OneNote client and won’t sync
So the last few days, in some stolen moments between projects I’ve been setting up a collaboration portal for our customers and us to share information, e.g. meeting notes, invoices …
When cliconfg.exe didn’t work for changing the SharePoint DB
Everyone knows that using SQL connection alias’s are a pretty good idea, as are A records in DNS for when you want to be able swap around your SQL server …
Image is crucial, so where did they go?
The mysterious case of missing blog post images after migration. Well, I wish it was mysterious. Actually, it was pretty obvious. The WordPress import tool isn’t exactly what you’d …
Windows Server 2012 Technical Launch (with Inframon & others…)
Today Ashley & I are in Hammersmith, West London for the Technical Launch of Windows Server 2012 which went General Availability on September 4th. Windows Server 2012 (built from the …
At the Windows Server 2012 Technical Launch event #WS2012 #Geektastic day. pic.twitter.com/s9RNy3n3 — Ashley Lawrence (@ashalaw) September 25, 2012