Monthly Archives: May 2011

When you use SQL Aliases (something that most people believe to be a good practice as it’s a locally controlled link to the database, and unlike DNS it updates instantly, and Microsoft recommend it here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298801.aspx#Section6_3) and you have installed … Continue reading →

The SharePoint Learning Kit was updated in February to support SharePoint 2010 – download the latest version here: http://slk.codeplex.com/ (No “SharePoint Training” pack released yet like there was for 2007, but this is a good product to run internal eLearning … Continue reading →

There’s a lot of information around Technet on what is and is not supported when looking at RBS for SQL (and SharePoint). Some of it could even be construed as contradictory… so I asked through the Partner forum what Microsoft’s … Continue reading →

Microsoft release a lot of good tools that are hard to find. With the work I’ve been doing around Dev environment automated builds, there have been a couple of gems that I want to share. One of them lets you … Continue reading →

Microsoft have released a tool for people to use when setting up a SharePoint development environment – It installs the following tools: SharePoint Server 2010 + pre-requisites (Standalone) Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio Expression … Continue reading →

This is a great idea – if you want to quickly be able to identify where part of a solution is failing, you can use JavaScript to write to the Developer Dashboard – John Powell from Microsoft has some great … Continue reading →

SQL Parallelism is one of those settings that Microsoft recommend you implement. To be honest, up until this point I have always asked for it, but never really known what the impact was of not setting this property… until today. … Continue reading →

It annoys me that SharePoint has some great Enterprise Content Management features baked right into the product… Such as “in place records” and Document Routing Engines… right beside some forehead-slapping features that make absolutely no sense at all. The one … Continue reading →

While onsite at a client, I received a request to disable the mobile views for iPad and iPhone for a specific site. In 2007, you ran the command stsadm –o deactivatefeature -name MobilityRedirect -URL http://blah.com Which worked a treat… Unfortunately … Continue reading →