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SharePoint 2010 Certifications

The SharePoint 2010 Certifications (both for IT Pros and Developers) both go live on Monday. For IT...

Author: smearp Date: 07/09/2010

Technical Diagrams for SharePoint 2010

Complementing the Technical Diagrams for deploying Office 2010 post, here are the technical diagrams...

Author: smearp Date: 07/09/2010

Free Microsoft Visio Stencils

If you have ever wanted to obtain the Visio Stencils used by the Microsoft User Assistance teams in...

Author: smearp Date: 07/09/2010

Long URL’s in SharePoint 2010

I had a co-worker recently ask me about some of the incredibly long URL’s now used in SharePoint...

Author: smearp Date: 07/08/2010

Your client does not support opening this list with Windows Explorer

Just a quick solution in case you ever get the following message when trying to open a SharePoint...

Author: smearp Date: 07/08/2010

70-177: Microsoft Project Server 2010, Configuring Exam Released

Available Today! (Friday June 18th) Exam 70-177: Microsoft Project Server 2010, Configuring Test...

Author: smearp Date: 06/18/2010

SharePoint Server 2010 performance and capacity test results and recommendations

Looks like we are starting to ramp up on the documentation!  In my feed of the Microsoft...

Author: smearp Date: 04/15/2010

Where are my site templates

Hello All- Every time I setup a new SharePoint 2010 portal, I hit the same problem when I go to...

Author: smearp Date: 04/02/2010

Creating a PST in Outlook 2010

I have a friend that is moving from Outlook 2003 to 2010, and who had trouble figuring out how to...

Author: smearp Date: 01/23/2010

SharePoint 2010 Beta available on TechNet Plus and MSDN

The subject line says it all!  I just logged into my TechNet Plus subscription, and Office...

Author: smearp Date: 11/16/2009

P2V Baby

It just does not get any easier than this.  Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell (Sysinternals...

Author: smearp Date: 10/07/2009

Windows 7 About Face

The story from June 2008: https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/et-tu-intel/ Intel, the giant...

Author: smearp Date: 10/04/2009

Windows 7 – Customize your notification area

Windows 7 does an excellent job of hiding the various notification icons that vendors (yes, even us)...

Author: smearp Date: 09/01/2009

SQL Server 2008 Migration White Papers

Just noticed these pop up on the Microsoft Download Center… some guides on migrating from various...

Author: smearp Date: 08/24/2009

Keep your desktop private

If you do demonstrations or webcasts from your computer, used the desktop screen sharing feature on...

Author: smearp Date: 08/10/2009

Add a buffer to that email you wish you hadn’t sent

We have all sent e-mails that we later regretted (usually that regret comes seconds after hitting...

Author: smearp Date: 08/07/2009

Unnecessary Complexity

If you are a long term Windows user, you right-click everything.  That right-click menu offers...

Author: smearp Date: 08/05/2009

Add Bing to your site

Just saw this over on The Road to Know Where, and is really quite nice… You can run through a quick...

Author: smearp Date: 08/01/2009

Binging Twitter

Wow, that sounds kind of dirty… I am proud to say that I have managed to make it this far without...

Author: smearp Date: 07/02/2009

IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling Guide Released

The Solution Accelerators team is at it again, releasing the IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling...

Author: smearp Date: 06/23/2009

How do you measure up?

Cool Instant Answer on Bing… just visit and search for “<job> salary”

Author: smearp Date: 06/11/2009

Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC) Branch Office Guide Released

If you are involved in a project to plan or upgrade Active Directory in your branch offices, you may...

Author: smearp Date: 06/07/2009

Free Technical Support for Windows 7 RC (for Microsoft Partners)

The Partner Online Technical Communities are one of the best kept secrets at Microsoft. Actually,...

Author: smearp Date: 05/22/2009

Service Level Dashboard 2.0 for System Center Operations Manager Released!

The Service Level Dashboard is an application built on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. It is...

Author: smearp Date: 05/22/2009

Having a bad day?

You know… the kind of day where all of the hard drives fail on one of your domain controllers, and...

Author: smearp Date: 05/20/2009

Slipstreaming SP2 into SharePoint Server 2007

If you are performing a greenfield or clean install of SharePoint, it is a good idea to install the...

Author: smearp Date: 05/20/2009

Updating SharePoint

I just finished installing Service Pack 2 on my team’s SharePoint server, and the process went...

Author: smearp Date: 05/19/2009

New Stsadm Commands in SharePoint April Cumulative Update (CU)

Todd Klindt has already covered the new stsadm commands that were added in Service Pack 2 (SP2) of...

Author: smearp Date: 05/16/2009

Virtual Windows XP (and where did the UI go?)

Today I was getting ready to install the virtual lab for a SQL Server maintenance class I am taking,...

Author: smearp Date: 05/14/2009

SharePoint Lockdown – The Easy Way

If you have been tasked with securing SharePoint, there  are a lot of considerations to take...

Author: smearp Date: 05/14/2009

Active Directory in the DMZ

I’ve been waiting for this guide for a while (‘cause that’s how I roll), but if you are interested...

Author: smearp Date: 04/28/2009

Operations Manager Service Level Dashboard

YAASAFTSAT (AKA Yet Another Awesome Solution Accelerator From the Solution Accelerator Team) :)...

Author: smearp Date: 04/13/2009

Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) Quick Start Kits Released

I just got the following from the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) team, and wanted to share:...

Author: smearp Date: 03/26/2009

WordPad is strangely functional

If you are like me, you haven’t fired up WordPad since somewhere around 1998.  It has virtually...

Author: smearp Date: 03/24/2009

Ten Themes for SharePoint

If you want SharePoint to, well, not look like SharePoint… we just released 10 themes that look...

Author: smearp Date: 03/19/2009

SharePoint Duplicate People Search Results (or none at all)

I ran into an interesting issue with the People Search functionality of SharePoint today (which is...

Author: smearp Date: 03/16/2009

Masters of the (Reading) Universe.

Unless you are Uber-l33t, you are probably not working on your Microsoft Certified Master...

Author: smearp Date: 03/11/2009

Attention to Detail

One thing that we are absolutely doing right in Windows 7 is paying attention to tiny details that...

Author: smearp Date: 03/09/2009

SharePoint 2007 February Cumulative Update (CU) Released!

Good news!  The SharePoint 2007 February Cumulative Update (CU) has been released.  And...

Author: smearp Date: 03/09/2009

April TechNet Magazine is up!

Internet Explorer: What’s New in Internet Explorer 8 Everyone expects something different from their...

Author: smearp Date: 03/09/2009

Name ActiveX Control

I was browsing the ATI/AMD site today to find an updated driver for Windows 7 (no luck…) and got a...

Author: smearp Date: 03/06/2009

Microsoft Transporter Suite Upgraded

If you are looking to migrate from Lotus Domino or from a generic POP/IMAP mail server to Exchange...

Author: smearp Date: 03/06/2009

Make Outlook 2007 Much Much Faster

If you have a large (1-2 GB or larger) mailbox in Outlook 2007, you have undoubtedly noticed that it...

Author: smearp Date: 02/26/2009

How do I get out of this SharePoint Site Collection?

Within SharePoint, you can create new Site Collections or Sub Sites, which can look exactly the same...

Author: smearp Date: 02/25/2009

Upcoming Solution Accelerator Webcasts

Baldwin Ng and Frank Simorjay from the Solution Accelerator team will be presenting the two...

Author: smearp Date: 01/21/2009

Pandora Gadget

If you at all like music, you probably visit Pandora (https://www.pandora.com) on a regular...

Author: smearp Date: 01/13/2009

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