Category: General

Long weekend..

Mmm.. lovely.. a nice long weekend.. And I didn’t touch code, SharePoint or Excel for the whole of it.. I did however play World of Warcraft for some of it!!!.. (Level 29 Human Warrior.. nice level to be at..) I also had a good spring clean of my Garage, something about having a good clear …

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Wow.. mid April..?

What a busy few weeks this has been. Unfortunatley, not much of it has been spent on SharePoint as I’ve had some server deliveries to meet. I’m back on SharePoint this week now. Still trying to sort out how to get dates out of the Excel spreadsheets and then displaying this and other data in …

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Ugh..man flu strikes!

Been a bit quiet on here and the SUGUK forums this last week thanks to an almighty bout of man-flu.. Real strength sapping one this variation! All I’ve done is sleep and doze infront of the telly. Tried to go back to work this morning, but the temperature is still a little up and down. …

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Mail working..

Is that a contradiction of words? Anyways.. I sorted the problem, it was the hosting server blocking outbound email. All new registrations will now receive their password.

Mail not working..

Ok, for some reason the mail out isn’t working. I’ll get this sorted and post here when it is. Then any subscribers will actually get their emailed password.

SUGUK User Group Meeting – Ullesthorpe

I attended my first user group meeting last night since joining the SUGUK forums. The evening opened with a presentation on Excel services by Andrew Woodward, followed by Design decisions by Bill English and then after a very nice buffet meal, Dr Bleeker took over and gave a very animated presentation on the possibilities for …

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A hectic week..

Well the course is nearly over, and it’s been an interesting week. Not everything that I did on our Sandbox environment was completely wrong, but the course has given me some much better ideas of how to do things and the best practices involved. One thing Microsoft, How many passwords do you want set up …

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Mmm.. relaxed start.

Well, I’m up in Leicestershire now ready for a 9am start on my course. SharePoint 2007 Administration with Combine-Knowledge. I’ll put a review of the course up on the SUGUK forums later this week. Something about a relaxing start in a hotel room, whats especially nice is that I don’t actually have to leave the …

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Moving on…swiftly..

Well I finally managed to persuade the boss to send me on a SharePoint 2007 admin course, So Sunday evening I’m off up to the Combined Knowledge residential course for a week of total immersion into MOSS2007. Finally I’ll be able to get some confirmation of the thoughts and dreams I’ve had for SharePoint but …

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Time to focus..

Well MOSS 2007 is now starting to make headway, We’ve received the medias and I’ve now got to freshly built physical boxes to put the SQl database and the Search and indexing platforms on. We’re going to put the Web front endonto a virtual server, this will enable us to scale the solution up, rather …

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