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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