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I recently came across a brilliant page on css-tricks.com which details how to make IE-only hacks for CSS.  Now under normal circumstances, it’s best to just write your CSS to the lowest common denominator (ideally W3C standards as much as possible), but when you have to lower yourself to using IE7 (and often even IE8), …

The following procedure is how you can change the title of a SharePoint ASPX page. Start by editing the page in SharePoint designer – try to go into advanced mode. If the file crashes designer – because SP Designer sucks – then use an alternate editor, such as notepad (what I did was get the …

I was recently asked to delete an orphaned meeting workspace for a client.  I couldn’t find anyone who’d done this before on the old Google box on the internet machine, so I decided to write something for myself, using PowerShell. I did this by using the following PowerShell script (using the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell …

I came across this little “gem” at a client today.  After I spent quite a bit of time getting their Exchange 2010 up and running (see earlier post about RPC 6001 errors) I was back on site trying to figure out why webmail and iPhone connections would not work for most users including the CEO.  …

One of the things that can drive your poor scribe nuts is a “dirty” AD.  I have lost count of the number of customers I’ve been at, large and small, where the AD is a total dog’s breakfast.  The upshot is it becomes pretty hard to provide any sort of effective management of their systems …

Available publicly from VMware are numerous downloads including things like the latest versions of the VMware tools for Windows.  The URL is below, and you simply follow the directories down until you find what you’re looking for. http://packages.vmware.com/tools

This post is a bit different from all that have gone before on this blog as it is not a “how to”, a rant or even technology related.  Rather, it is a tiny bit of advice to any young person looking at getting into the IT biz from a grizzled old veteran.  It has been …

I just finished blowing my brains out for the better part of a week trying to figure out WHY a brand new Exchange 2010 install was blowing up on the Exchange Remote Connectivity Tester (ExRCA) for RPC over HTTP.  As well, Outlook 2007 and 2010 clients were also exhibiting all sorts of errors while using …

Everywhere you look nowadays there is a reference to “The Cloud” yet there is no real clear definition as to WHAT “The Cloud” actually is.  You see references to public Clouds, private Clouds, hybrid Clouds … you name it and there is probably the “Cloud” moniker attached to it.  So just what IS “The Cloud”, …

I’ve been asked this several times, and I finally found the answer.  See the post below which describes how to do this. http://farhanfaiz.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/sharepoint-designer-2010-login-with-different-credentials/