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Not sure how long this tool has existed, but cool all the same. Microsoft has a Silverlight powered SharePoint PowerShell builder Link: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/TechNet/en-us/Office/media/WindowsPowerShell/WindowsPowerShellCommandBuilder.html You can either: (Option) Choose the product and the action This is cool because certain actions, such as deleting a content database won’t be possible with Office 365 (they own that set …

Where do you first look for an outsourced IT/SharePoint provider? That’s a question a lot of business owners and managers don’t know how to answer, and it’s not their fault. After all, if you don’t know a great deal about technology – and why should you, when you have a company to run? – Then …

Hey folks, If you are in Vancouver and more specifically at Vancouver Tech Days, come by and say “hi”.  I’ll be proctoring the End-to-End Microsoft Business Intelligence lab as well as attending the festivities. Hope to see you there.  www.techdays.ca Sean

This is now the second time I’ve seen this, but it is still a rarity and you should only do the following in extreme circumstances once you’ve determined it isn’t something else. The Problem A SharePoint Farm is humming along nicely when WHAM! all of a sudden you can’t login to your SharePoint Web Application, …

Stumbled across this gem today.  The Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint from Acceleratio Ltd. As any SharePoint professional knows, SharePoint combines ease of use and the ability to change software to suit your business needs and requirements rapidly. That is the positive of SharePoint. The negative is the expectations that come on IT to be equally …

Those of know me know that I live by ‘a picture is worth a 1000 words’.  That said, my experience has been that if we provide a visual site map (diagram of sites/webs in your collection), folks appreciate it and understand where data should go. An example: Here’s how it’s done   First off, watch …

I pulled this from the old OneNote archives the other day and figured I’d share it with anyone that might need to do the same. The Challenge A customer had us upgrade them to SharePoint 2010.  However, they didn’t like that their site collection was at http://go.somewhere.com/sites/department and instead wanted a dedicated managed path (explicit …

Gasp! Your blog isn’t based on SharePoint anymore? Yep. But keep your shirt on. I haven’t found a new lover. I LOVE working with SharePoint. But sometimes, the Internet prefers to work with others. Basically, I made the switch because: SharePoint can be expensive to license for the Internet SharePoint is HUGE and can sometimes …

Grumble Grumble. Stooopid PDF. So I wanted to print a webpage to a PDF. But it came out like the below Figure 1 : But it came out like this… The fix was this… Figure 2 : turn off rely on system fonts “

Only took about a decade but Acrobat 10 has some SharePoint integration now. To be fair, Acrobat 10 has been out for a while, since the beginning of the year, so I’m pretty late commenting on it.  But my friend Tom pointed out this video that highlights the document library integration and I have had …