Of Ones and Zeros

Got an iPad

Posted on 07. Apr, 2010 by bryan.

While vacationing down in the Florida keys I took a short two hour drive up to The Falls shopping center in Miami to pickup a 32 GB ipad! First impressions are very positive. The device has a very snappy feel, much more responsive when browsing the internet than on my 3GS (which consequently I [...]

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Windows 7 Preview Pane

Posted on 02. Mar, 2010 by bryan.

First off, I didn’t even realize that Vista had a Preview Pane feature, but today I had the need to quickly glance through several Word documents and was trying to find a way to quickly preview the contents. I noticed an icon within Explorer in the upper right that looked like a preview button [...]

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Free Expression Encoder 3 For Up To 10 Minutes

Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by bryan.

Microsoft has released a free version of Expression Encoder which can be used to create screencasts up to 10 minutes in length!  You can include video and audio with the screen cast recording.  I played with this a bit this week and the performance and quality of results are very impressive.  Download it here.

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Truncating Transaction Logs in SQL 2008

Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 by bryan.

One of my clients is beginning to migrate to SQL 2008 for their SharePoint farms.  In the past, we have used scripts to truncate the transaction logs and shrink the DBs in the non-production environments using the “BACKUP LOG [dbname] WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY” command.  As you may be aware, the “WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY” option has been deprecated [...]

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User Profile Import Stuck

Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by bryan.

A client had an issue today with user profile imports being “stuck”.  In one instance (the production instance) the profile import was stuck actually performing the import, in the non-production instance it was stuck on “Enumerating”.  Found a great article by Henrik Andersson to fix the issue.  Here is what he posted as the fix:
Open [...]

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Migrating Subsites to New Site Collections

Posted on 23. Sep, 2009 by bryan.

I am currently working on a project to split up a single site collection to multiple site collections.  There are multiple reasons for doing so, and there are useful blog posts dedicated to the topic of whether to use multiple site collections or subsites.  In this instance, the primary driver for using multiple site collections [...]

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“Object reference not set to an instance of an object” executing STSADM commands

Posted on 24. Aug, 2009 by bryan.

If you are attempting to execute STSADM commands, and are receiving the ominous “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” error, make sure that the user account that are using to execute STSADM has permissions to the SQL database.  I ran into an issue today where the domain account had permissions to [...]

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Promising SharePoint projects on CodePlex

Posted on 18. Jun, 2009 by bryan.

I spent some time on CodePlex today researching the latest open-source SharePoint projects.  I probably haven’t peeked through CodePlex in the past 6 months, and I was very encouraged by the quantity of projects out there.  Following are the ones of particular interest to me:
SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard
http://spdeploymentwizard.codeplex.com/
The SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard is a tool [...]

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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Installed on Windows 7 RC

Posted on 27. May, 2009 by bryan.

Today I installed Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 1 on the Windows 7 RC running in VMWare Workstation 6.5.  Special thanks to Miha Markič for this tip regarding disabling 3D graphics acceleration in VMWare.  This is what the top bar of Visual Studio looked like before that change:

And this is what it looks like [...]

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Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Attention: Important Information on Service Pack 2

Posted on 26. May, 2009 by bryan.

Microsoft’s SharePoint team has announced that there is a bug in Service Pack 2 for MOSS that will trigger SharePoint to believe it is a trial instance of the product.  A workaround is supplied by Microsoft:
We are working to release a hotfix to automatically fix this issue. A manual work-around is currently available and involves [...]

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