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SharePoint and OneNote Slide Deck Shared
I did a recent presentation for the Victoria SharePoint users group (June 2012) and presented an introduction to OneNote and specifically, what value SharePoint plays in it. If you are interested in seeing it (I try not to do too many slides, so obviously the content is a little light), you can find it here: …
Read onNot so fast Apple. Sneaky, but you were caught…
We’ve been saying it for a decade or more. OF COURSE MAC’s can get viruses. The reason they didn’t is when they owned 0.005% of the industry, the script kiddies didn’t care about attacking them, because there would be no splash, no notoriety – because really all it is about for them is ego anyways. …
Read onIs Outsourced SharePoint Assistance an Expense… or a Good Business Investment?
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 doesn’t just cost you …
Read onItchy Publishing Trigger Finger? Resetting a meeting workspace back to its original master page using powershell (after resetting all subsites to inherit the master page)
While we have blogged this in various forms, from setting one site to multiple sites and/or collections, I just wanted to take 2 minutes to make the following commentary. The Problem If you push a master page change through all sub sites (webs) in a collection and you have meeting or document workspaces, those will …
Read onWhat’s this Flame Virus all about?
What is the Flame Virus? First off, if you haven’t heard anything about the Flame Virus, you may want to start here Here is what is important to you: Flame Virus (also called sKyWIper) was deployed in May, but may have been around since ‘07 The virus had a suicide command sent out this month, …
Read onI’m pretty proud of our team – SharePoint and Nintex Rock Stars
itgroove has been nominated for a Nintex Innovation award for leveraging SharePoint, Nintex Workflow, Muhumbi and lots of smarts and innovation to save BC Ferries money, improve safety and to go significantly more green. All good things. Kudos go out especially to Colin and Keith for their fierce dedication and for putting up with …
Read onWhether your LinkedIn password was discovered today or not, you should do something about it
Heads up. Whether there is truth or not to the reports of LinkedIn passwords being leaked, practice Safe Internet Sex LinkedIn Apparently Hacked. Passwords for millions of accounts harvested: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/06/06/tech-linkedin-hacked-passwords.html itgroove Recommends: Log into LogMeIn ASAP and change your password. It is a good practice to change it regularly anyways. You are changing important Internet …
Read onCopyMove for SharePoint – Moving files with metadata, audit details and version history with ease (And style)
SharePoint Products has produced a product called CopyMove for SharePoint since the MOSS 2007 release. The product is licensed by the WFE (Web Front-End) and is a farm solution (you will need to have your own installation of SharePoint as this is an on-premise solution). A 30 day eval is available to try it for …
Read onITPro’s, Don’t forget about the Jamaicans
While the toolset has grown over the years, it started some time ago as Winternal/SysInternals and Mark Russonovich’s “Jamaicans”. You know… RegMon DiskMon And FileMon Well, some of those have been renamed and/or moved into other tools but the SysInternals suite of tools is still the best set of FREE resources for digging into why …
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