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This may not help anyone but me, but I’m going to post this for myself nevertheless, as it seems to happen enough to me that it’s about time I document this, so here goes. Ensure you have the service “User Profile Service” running in the “Services on Server” on the intended server running UPS. Ensure …

Depending on the size, a non-profit can get the services for free (typically suited for smaller size), or get a discounted upgrade (typically suited for larger size).  This is big news, for sure! http://betanews.com/2013/09/10/microsoft-donates-office-365-to-nonprofits-surface-team-celebrates/ https://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship/en-us/office365-for-nonprofits/

That can only mean one thing. What’s that you say? Cheering? Goals? Early mornings? Not really…hockey season is the start of when Sean begrudgingly volunteers to do the music for our son’s game at the rink. He kind of pretends at first like it’s a bit of a pain, but I can see it in …

It occurred to me that even though I knew several older versions of workflows existed as part of creating workflows, I had never actually thought of how to get at these older versions (as I never really needed to revert to older versions before).  I was prompted to look into this, and this is what …

I do a lot of work with Firefox, as its developer tools outshine all the other browsers, hands down.  But recently I’ve been getting a lot of sites appearing without CSS.  As it turns out, there’s actually “mixed content” on the page, and the default security setting is to block that content.  Normally I agree …

The following is a great article outlying the difference between the preferred SharePoint 2007 (SP1) method of using External Blob Storage (EBS) and the SharePoint 2010 method of using Remote Blob Storage (RBS). http://blogs.alachisoft.com/storageedge/external-vs-remote-blob-storage/

  As summer draws to a close, I find myself completely lacking in any sort of routine. Normally I do prefer a relatively scheduled life, but when summer comes, all bets are off. In fact, I am so relaxed right now that I’m having trouble showing up to any appointment without running out the door …

This morning I was getting this error message (in the title), both before and after rebooting, so I figured something was up.  After looking online, I found this article from MS http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-windows_store/app-store-your-pc-isnt-connected-to-the-internet/97487893-5825-4b93-a413-9920696166db which describes that you can run a command line tool as follows. c:> wsreset.exe This resets the Windows Store App Cache and suddenly …

I was helping a friend this weekend with his new Lenovo server.  TS-430, nice basic server with decent engineering. We discovered one “oopsie” in the ordering process that you might want to be aware of if you are ordering a Lenovo server online.  The server has a basic on-board RAID that your should bypass in …

  Not since the battle between Daniel Larusso (aka Karate Kid) and Johnny Lawrence has there been such an epic battle of such ginormous proportions. That’s right; it was the Battle of the MVP’s at the 2nd annual itgroove staff bbq! In the blue loincloth we had Colin Phillips and in the red was Keith …