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Submit your story on SharePoint and Get Showcased!

Submit your story on SharePoint and Get Showcased!   There are so many fantastic success stories on SharePoint 2010 that are just waiting to be told and shared. Now’s your chance to get your story heard!   You’re invited to share your unique story on SharePoint 2010 to win the chance of being professionally filmed …

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How to enable NTLM authentication for your SharePoint site in Firefox

We all (should) know about adding our SharePoint site to the Local Intranet zone on computers we trust, to ensure ease of login while inside the corporate network. But did you know Firefox can do the same thing? Here’s how…   The Add On Way There is a Firefox add-on called NTLMAuth for Firefox”. If …

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SuperSauce this Saturday at the Led Zeppelin Show!

Hey folks,   I have a bunch of complimentary tickets for the Led Zeppelin show this Saturday at Sugar ($15 value). SuperSauce is opening. I hear they don’t suck. 😉     Learn more… Vancouver’s THE LED ZEPPELIN SHOW return to Sugar Nightclub with their energetic and faithful reproduction of the Led Zeppelin experience. With …

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Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010 Products Has Arrived

Now hang on a second. I’m not saying download it and install right now. Like always, the service pack will be addressing a number of things that cumulative updates have in the past but this one is special (or dangerous 😉 as it is delivering some new features as well. So take the time to …

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Short SharePoint Usage Questionnaire

Don’t mind me, just preparing questions for some SharePoint (existing) business analysis we are going to be doing at a customer tomorrow and I figured this would be useful to share to help get some dialogue going in case you need to do the same.     Name: Department: Role:         What …

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How to Add a Favicon to a Site Collection

The Goal Add a favicon to a site collection (note this only works on one site collection at a time). How To Do It Prerequisites You need to start with a favicon file. This must be an ICO file, not a PNG, or GIF, or other graphics format file. These other types tend to work …

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SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SBS 2011

Thanks to some recon from Robert (and his lab ;), I’ve got some answers to some questions that folks may have up front about SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SBS 2011 so I figured I’d provide it in a quick FAQ format: Question: Does SBS 2011, without the Premium full SQL Server add-on install using SQL …

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Free Exchange ActiveSync tester for iPhone and the iPad

Found this free ActiveSync Testing tool (so you don’t have to blow away your own phone settings to test ActiveSync on behalf of users). Available in the APP Store as: ActiveSync Tester Vendor website: https://store.accessmylan.com/main/promo-testtool Figure 1 : looks like this and provides some diagnostic info after it attempts to connect

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