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When setting up a SharePoint Server, you often want certain service accounts to be able to have local log on rights, even though you’ll likely never manually log on to the servers as these accounts (such as the farm account).  This is necessary for back-end processes to be able to proceed successfully in many cases …

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”.

I was recently asked to remove a Quick Launch item in all quick launch menus across an entire web application.  The following PowerShell will iterate over all webs in all sites in a web application searching for the menu item labelled “BAD Quick Launch Item” and will delete that node from each location. $FindString = …

I was recently asked to enable and disable certain features across an entire farm that were activated by virtue of having upgraded to the SharePoint enterprise license.  The key is that to do this effectively, I wrote some PowerShell, and I needed the Feature ID.  The table of features with their IDs is below. Short …

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/

What you’re looking at is a family of puppets. Sean came home with them around 5 years ago. When he saw the quizzical expression on my face, he told me he ordered them so he could do online demonstrations and use the puppets instead of a live person. Hmm, I thought, sounds like an excuse …

Backup is one of those “non-sexy” things that often gets ignored while companies focus on the latest shiny bits.  After all, it’s very much like insurance; we all have to have it but we pretty much ignore it until the next time we have to pay the premium.  That’s a pity but it is human …

As reported on The Verge, a reddit user got their hands on a possible next gen version of Windows Phone (Blue?).  They posted a series of screenshots out on the interwebs and we’re all able to now start to speculate on what will or will not be included in the next version of the Phone …