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The Transaction Log for Database XXXX is full
Ran into this on Friday at a customer. Unexpected as the database logging file size shouldn’t have been changed in the first place but it could happen elsewhere. Hope this helps others. What Event ID: 5586 Error Posted: Unknown SQL Exception 9002 occurred. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below. The transaction log …
Read onYear 5 – Renewed as SharePoint MVP
Got my email re: 5th year as a Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server today. Always strange to get it on April Fools but real all the same. Thanks to all for your support. “Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2013 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders …
Read onLiving the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) dream at itgroove
I love that we are living the dream of BYOD (Bring your own device) and felt the need to illustrate it. We provide a solid/secured centralized platform and our folks connect with their tool of choice. You could look at this as say Office 365 does the same thing for those that don’t want to …
Read onBefore you hire that tech guy – read this
You may have heard stories of businesses hiring technology consultants to fix problems or create new solutions. Many of those stories end with the consultant not meeting the needs or expectations of the business. A feeling of disappointment and resentment – but you can prevent this. The reasons for failed technology projects are numerous; however …
Read onSharePoint 2013 Search – Scopes are gone, but don’t fret
Shout out to Jarrod for putting this together for me. What are you talking about? In SharePoint 2010, we had “scopes” to filter through our search results. For example, if you search for “Jarrod Ferguson”, you will have numerous results at every mention of my name- so you use the “People” scope. This will result …
Read onHiding the Quick Launch in SharePoint 2013 on a single page
Don’t mind me. I reach for this enough times that it was worth sharing again. I’m sure there will be dozens of other posts out there with similar CSS but I’m hoping we provide a little twist, at least if you are using the stock Master Pages in 2013 (Oslo/Seattle, etc.) as we find the …
Read onIT Pro Canada
Microsoft has asked me to share this with Microsoft saavy peeps. Besides, everyone loves a contest! Sean We often work with Anthony, Pierre and Mitch, the evangelists from the IT Pro team at Microsoft Canada. They asked us to share this important message with you. The team at Microsoft Canada is focused on …
Read onIPV6 on Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 – Disabling when not desired
Mark Minasi wrote a very informative article about IPv6 and buried in the goodness were ways to disable the (various) elements of it. I’m summarizing the pieces below as his goes on quite a bit and I imagine I’ll be referencing this quite a bit now and then… Ya, this is one of those blogs …
Read onOffice Web Apps 2013 and Project Server Licensing
Thanks to Robert in our office who took care of answering the following questions for me (thanks Rob), and now I’m sharing them with you… Here’s the questions (and answers) I asked Rob: Office Web Apps 2013 In 2010, if you had volume licensing, for each user you bought a volume license for, you could …
Read onitgroove is in the Windows 8 App Store!
Sweetness. itgroove has its first Windows 8 App (for all 6 of you using it … I kid ) It is a WordPress Aggregator for pulling in all of the blogs across our team (for a little bit longer, it is just pulling my stuff … that will change end of the month). Check it …
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