I’ve been waiting to post this as I wanted to make sure it was shared on the official site first! As you may or may not know (if you read this blog or know me you should!) I can quite happily ramble on about SharePoint in a small business context for a long time. So
SBS 2008 Migration Gotcha
I was recently migrating a client from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008. I was using the Microsoft method (backed up by the techniques in Dave Overton’s book!) and having ran the source tool on the old server I kicked off the migration on the new server and got this error. Weird….I’d ran the source tool
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Outlook 2010 – Auto Complete Files
Just a quick one as a reminder as it caught me out! You’re probably aware that Outlook stores the names that appear when you type a mail recipient in an .NK2 file. In the past when moving a user between PCs all we needed to do with grab the .NK2 file from the old PC
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Vintage Computer Festival at Bletchley Park
Last Saturday fellow geek Richard Tubb and I travelled down to Bletchley Park for the first ever Vintage Computer Festival here in the UK. I’ve been to the National Computer Museum before but this was a far more interactive experience. The mansion and various marquees around the site were filled with tons of retro systems
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SharePoint as a Help Desk @ AMITPRO
Urgh….I meant to do this a lot earlier but I’ve had a crazy week since the AMITPRO meeting last week. I’ve got a back log of posts I want to put together but between holidays, hospitals and a couple of major client projects I’ve been at full tilt since then. Anyway, back to the point!
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Andy and SharePoint @ June AMITPRO Meeting
Yeah i know….me again. We’ve had a speaker drop out at short notice so I’m going to speaking at AMITPRO this month. The topic is one you’ll probably know is something I quite like talking about – SharePoint! My presentation will be titled – SharePoint as a Helpdesk I’ve had the idea for the while
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David Houston – Community Legend
If you follow the SBS Community at all you’ll have no doubt heard the sad news of the passing of David Houston. I met David “virtually” online in 2007. Both he and I participated in the long departed monthly SBS Chat and were the only people from this part of the world. (mainly because it
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SharePoint as a Twitter Client. Sort of – Part Five
In part four I mentioned that there would be a problem in the future with this solution. In the second part of this series we created a simple function that generated a HTTP request to send to the Twitter API. As part of that request we sent a username and password. This known as “basic
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SharePoint as a Twitter Client. Sort of – Part Four
In part three I said there was bit of functionality left to clear up. We have to run the process manually. We actually did a little bit of the ground work in part two. One of the pieces of code was the main function that brings all the bits and pieces together – it was
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SharePoint as a Twitter Client. Sort of – Part Three
Following on from part two I commented that there were a couple of issues outstanding, It doesn’t automatically update the SharePoint list. We have to repeat the list creation process every time. We have to run the process manually. This post will cover the first item on the list and is really straight forward.
