Dirty Words

Restoring a content database from a production environment to a development machine for dev purposes can sometimes get a little bit interest...

Calling a parameterised PowerShell script from a batch file or command window using name parameters is pretty easy, just flag each paramater...

[Update: a video recording of this presentation is now available here ] I’m presenting the second of tonight’s Perth SharePoint User Group...

Jason Neurohr has a detailed, illustrated post on the subject of merging Hyper-V snapshots to a parent .vhd, leaving you with a single .vhd...

Had a painful time trying to get Office 2010 Professional Plus (MSDN RTM) installed in a Windows Server 2008 R2 environment. Attempting to r...

A weird little annoyance I’ve only just noticed is that using validation groups with the ASP.NET validators always results in a postback on ...

The Disable –> Script menu option in the IE dev toolbar has baffled me for a while now: sometimes it’s enabled, sometimes it’s disabled (...

If you’re shunting SharePoint content databases around between environments using the stsadm deletecontentdb and addcontentdb commands, you ...

Planning an evaluation (or trial) migration/upgrade from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 seems to be a rather confusing affair; with most Google result...

The TFS 2010 install is reportedly a walk in the park by comparison with previous versions so I thought it would be fun to give it a spin as...