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On the weekend Sean and I spent time with his grandmother. We wanted to record her as she told us her life story. She has witnessed so many things in her lifetime and has an amazing memory for details. She was born almost 95 years ago in Liverpool, England. When she was a teenager in …

According to CNet, Windows Phone is well up over it’s market share in the first 3 months of 2013, over 2012. http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57587297-75/windows-phone-wins-5.6-percent-of-u.s-smartphone-sales/

    Written by Sean Wallbridge We’ll admit it: This is a little bit of a loaded question. Certainly, retaining a good SharePoint/technology partner is an expense, in the sense that you will receive an invoice from time to time. But at the same time, as with many business expenses, a quality outsourced and experienced …

Written by Sean Wallbridge We’ll admit it: This is a little bit of a loaded question. Certainly, retaining a good SharePoint/technology partner is an expense, in the sense that you will receive an invoice from time to time. But at the same time, as with many business expenses, a quality outsourced and experienced SharePoint/IT partner …

I ran into the recently, and the following blog post covered exactly what I needed to do to resolve it. http://blog.entos.at/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=14 The key information in there was the following. This state is ok, as long as it doesn’t last too long. But at one day you need to upgrade the Database. The upgrade is no …

Written by Sean Wallbridge There aren’t any easy answers to this question, but the fact that it comes up as frequently as it does means that a lot of companies out there aren’t entirely happy with the job their IT providers are doing. And so, if you find yourself wondering whether or not you should …

I recently ran into an issue with a customer in a multi-server SharePoint farm (1 SQL server, 1 WFE, 1 APP server), where applying an Enterprise license was not going as easily as it should.  Under normal circumstances, when you have a SharePoint server that is presently licensed for the “Standard feature set”, upgrading to …

Let’s say you’d like to create a custom list that had a calendar view associated with it.  And in that list, you wanted to emulate what the SharePoint calendar list does (which is to pre-calculate the End Date / End Time for you).  How does one do such a thing? Basically, I’m referring to how …

I’m grabbing most of this content from the following link, http://latenightsp.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/sharepoint-config-cache/, just in case the blog disappears at some point in the future – I don’t want this information to get lost.  So many thanks to Mayank Malik over at Late Night SharePoint. Reblogged from Late Night SharePoint What is the SharePoint Configuration Cache?The cache …

As a holder of a Windows Phone 8, this pleases me, and maybe we’ll finally start to get some notice from the missing app makers out there. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/05/16/windows-phone-surpasses-blackberry-for-third-place-in-smartphone-shipments/?hpt=hp_t3