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My fellow MVP (and friend, and boss, and colleague, and all-round sarcastic guy) Sean Wallbridge wrote this the other day (July 1st, 2013), and it sums it up well. It was like Christmas today at itgroove and we weren’t even open (Canada Day, eh?). First the new and improved OneNote and then immediately followed by …

As part of most SharePoint installs, we usually turn on the “Desktop Experience” feature.  This feature has moved in Server 2012, and can now be found under the category “User Interfaces and Infrastructure”.

As posted by Eric Ligman (Microsoft Sales Excellence Program Manager) https://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2013/06/18/huge-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-for-you-including-office-office-365-sharepoint-sql-server-system-center-visual-studio-web-development-windows-windows-azure-and-windows-server.aspx?Redirected=true [Below is a copy of Eric’s post] Last summer I put up a post that offered a collection of free Microsoft eBooks across a variety of topics and the response was incredible. Because of the phenomenal response, I followed it up with a second …

Skype is going “video messaging everywhere”.  Everywhere except Windows Phone.    Of all the places they should be focusing, their own platform would’ve been a nice place to include in the list of “all users”. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57589627-93/skype-launches-video-messaging-to-all-users/?ttag=fbwp As a Windows/Skype user, this pleases me, however, given I can’t create messages with my phone, it’s SUPER LAME …

I’m a big fan of the CSS Tricks site, and this one is right up there as a good post, relevant to how to target specifically the IE10 browser. http://css-tricks.com/ie-10-specific-styles/

So you’ve decided to get into the SharePoint app world, and are suddenly faced with a dilemma, how does one manage your app licenses once you’ve obtained an app?  There are several scenarios that one must be aware of, some more fun than others.  We’ll start with the good ‘ol MSDN table – don’t worry, …

This cool little sample pack from Microsoft is a great starting point for SharePoint app developers/development.  Broken down into C# and VB.NET or a combined pack.  Apps for SharePoint sample pack:  http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/officeapps/Apps-for-SharePoint-sample-64c80184 Be aware, when extracting the Zip file, some filenames are very long, so don’t try to expand it deeply nested in a folder …

This KnowledgeBase article on MS Support covers all the AntiVirus exclusions you’ll need to make for your SharePoint environments.  The title is slightly misleading, it doesn’t cover versions prior to WSS3.0 or MOSS2007 – sorry to anyone looking to setup a new SharePoint 2003 server – all your 10 year old technology are belong to …

As blogged by Frank Shaw, Corporate VP of Corporate Communications at Microsoft, Windows Phone is making some headway.  At this point, it’s mostly doing well in more developing markets, but if you can win “India” and “Russia” – with a potential Billion and a half-ish people, who cares if you win the much smaller North …

The leaks of the next generation of Windows are upon us.  Windows Blue, as it’s being called, is a milestone upgrade to the Windows 8/RT product line (not a new product, but a generational “half-step”), and has a number of changes – some minor, some major (like a new IE).  I’ve assembled a few links …