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SharePoint and Office 2010 RTM’d

This is a very exciting time. SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 (and Visual Studio, etc.) have all been released to manufacturing. RTM for Office and SharePoint was April 16th, 2010. What this means going forward:   Important Dates April 16, 2010 – SharePoint/Office 2010 RTM (Release to Manufacturing/Media). April 27, 2010 – RTW (Release to …

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STSADM and “command is invalid”

Hey folks, I’ve seen this enough that it warranted blogging about it specifically. Here’s the deal… Problem When running an STSADM command in SharePoint, you get a result of command is invalid” following what you believe to be perfectly good syntax. And you know what, it might well be. But what you probably did is …

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What does the itgroove name mean?

A friend asked this today. And on an older version of our website, we had an FAQ where we answered that. Funny thing is, I had to use the Way Back Machine” to see the older version of our website, in order to get that info (what a great concept that thing is…).   Link …

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My Favourite iPhone and iPad Apps

Hey, here’s a quick list of my current favourite iPhone and iPad apps (at this writing – 4/9/2010). I think I have the prices right for them, but taking those from memory. Except for TalkingCarl, these aren’t in any particular order. I have lots installed, including some really popular ones, but a lot I find, …

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Benefits of working with itgroove

We spent a little time this week putting together a list of what we believe are the benefits customers get, working with itgroove. You’ll notice we didn’t put things like we’re wicked smart” or “we’re great haxors”. We tried to compile a list of value we provide to a customer, based on our approach to …

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Can’t Activate XP after a Windows Repair

Today from Louis Warren…   Another pesky Windows issues bites the dust! I have had a few laptops lately that have ran into stop errors or have been corrupted by spyware and will not boot into windows or any combination of safe mode. I then go and insert the appropriate XP CD and do an …

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Dell Server onboard networking gotcha’s

By Robert Dick today…   I had real fun with a DELL R300 server after a motherboard replacement.  Learned bunches but first a little background.     What originally went wrong?     The Dell R300 lost” the MAC addresses on the twin onboard NIC’s and we couldn’t get them back.  ESXi lost its networking …

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My New iPad – Day 1

I don’t know how long I’ll do this (update) as I planned on doing the same for being a SharePoint User on a MAC” and I never got around to that either… but I did buy an iPad today (I was in Washington, so lucky me, as they aren’t in Canada yet). I got the …

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