Dirty Words

Just borrowed a colleague’s Toshiba M300/Intel Core2 Duo Mobile Processor P7350 laptop only to find the CPU doesn’t support VT (or the Inte...

I hadn’t noticed previously but Microsoft released slipstreamed SP2 installers (x86 and x64) at the end of 2009: http://www.microsoft.com/...

With a new dawn and the SharePoint 2010 beta upon us, I figured it was finally time to a) dip my toes into the PowerShell pool and b) learn ...

Oh the tedium… Having used Windows Server 2008 R2 for a while, I was keen to upgrade the Hyper-V host environment supporting my dev infrastr...

When building out a new VM I’ve occasionally created a second disk for holding non-system files and temporary data; this disk is easy to blo...

How exciting—our very first SharePoint Saturday event in Perth ! A BIG shout out to Jeremy Thake for organising the venue, speakers, sponso...

Programmatically applying and configuring an out-of-the-box workflow to a SharePoint list isn’t the most obvious thing to do but fortunately...

Windows Server 2008 won’t respond to ping requests out of the box—they’re blocked by default in the Windows Firewall ruleset. In the pre-R2 ...

A minor annoyance with VS2008 SP1 and TFS 2008 SP1 today when attempting a check in. Here’s the stack trace: Delete a folder and a bunc...

It’s never easy… the downloader doesn’t seem to work from the web or somesuch, or at the very least not with Windows Server 2008 R2; running...