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If you ever run into a situation where you need to change your product key so you can activate windows, there’s a simple command line technique to do so.  Simply open a command prompt and type in “slmgr.vbs –ipk [product key]” After a few moments, the following message should appear. When you’re done that, type …

This is a little behind the times, but I wanted to throw it out there for anyone who wasn’t aware (and who wasn’t already privy to Windows 8). As posted on TechNet: Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 Now Globally Available

To paraphrase a wise man, once you’ve got PowerPivot, “all your SharePoint’s are belong to us”.  I’m going to demonstrate how, using Excel 2013 (which has PowerPivot built right in – you just have to enable it), and SharePoint 2013 you can really easily be crunching some of your SharePoint data, without ever having to …

The latest SP dev tools are now available for full release.  A few articles on the topic can be found below. Office and SharePoint 2013 Developer Tools Now Available: http://winsupersite.com/office-2013/office-and-sharepoint-2013-developer-tools-now-available Download the Office and SharePoint Visual Studio tools! http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officeapps/archive/2013/03/05/download-the-office-and-sharepoint-visual-studio-tools.aspx The tools themselves can be obtained here. Office Dev Tools for VS2012: http://aka.ms/OfficeDevToolsForVS2012 Office 365 Developer …

Nintex Workflow has 2 very similar actions, which for the longest time confused me as to why you’d really need both.  Besides a presentation difference at run time, there’s a little more to this puzzle when you look closer. The two actions in question are “Run If” and “Set a Condition”, pictured below.   Both …

There’s a rather inelegant technique for rounding a number that can be found in the Nintex forums here and also here.  However, I have come up with a different technique, which isn’t necessarily any less inelegant (any more elegant?  — how many double negatives are too many?).  This technique requires only a single step in …

Ok, here’s the situation, my parents went away on a week’s vacation.  Oh, wait, no, never mind – I’m not the Fresh Prince from the 1980’s.  The real story begins like this.  I was working on a problem for a customer where I needed to copy an item with metadata from one library (with a …

It has been 8 ½ years since my husband Sean went on a pre-planned guys’ vacation to Las Vegas. Unfortunately, our second child was only a few months old at the time, but this was the only time he and all of his friends could get together. At least that’s what he told me at …

One of the great things about the tech industry is that you get to meet and work with some truly interesting people with a heavy lean towards the “Type A” category.  In my 30+ years in the biz I’ve been privileged to work with,and sometimes ,if I’ve been really lucky, lead some truly great teams.  …

  “You need a stem cell (bone marrow)” transplant”.  Those are chilling words that many people suffering from “blood cancers” hear nowadays.  The words are not chilling because of the need for the transplant as they are words that offer hope.  No, they are chilling because it means  a donor has to be found and …