I recently tried out a trial subscription to the online training provider www.pluralsight.com as I was hoping to brush up my HTML 5 and CSS 3 skills. The courses are delivered as online streamed video, with some basic pre and post course testing, coursework and notes for those on the extended subscription. The extended subscription …
Sep 23
The images are fixed now..
So hopefully all the past articles that are still linked to answers on MSDN and SUGUK.org should still work! Paul.
Sep 22
Ok, not everything is dandy…
I’m having some problems grabbing the images across from my old host thanks to their over zealous security software (One of the many reasons I’m leaving them.. how hard is it to whitelist the fixed IP address of the owner of a site?) I’ll have the images sorted by Monday hopefully, please bear with me.. …
Sep 21
Welcome to the new home of my blog!
I was having a lot of problems with my old hosting provider, so I decided to switch to TSO Hosts. I have to say the sign up process was awesomely easy, as was installing WordPress and importing in the backup of my existing site. As a result, all of my old content links still work, …
Sep 19
Taming the Noderunner process in SharePoint 2013 search.
An MS employee posted an update regarding the Noderunner search process in SharePoint 2013 and the current issues it has regarding leaving memory. http://blogs.technet.com/b/mpriem/archive/2012/09/05/sharepoint-2013-preview-hungry-search-service.aspx The technique of limiting the Noderunner.exe.config file with a setting in the memoryLimitMegabytes works really well.. Too well in fact if you’re trying to reconfigure your search topology in PowerShell. When …
Sep 18
Word 2010 document version comparison in SharePoint 2010
I don’t generally do a lot of typical document management in my day to day role, usually, once I’ve written a document and it’s issued to a client, then that’s that and it’s onto delivery or project work or something similar. Just recently however, I had a need to go back through the “nitty gritty†…
Sep 05
I love the look of in-place searching in SP2013
DISCLAIMER: This post is based on the Beta version of SP2013 and all information is subject to change One of the first things that you may notice in SharePoint 2013 is that search is EVERYWHERE! Nowhere is this more obvious than when you click into a document library to see the new style drag & …
Sep 03
SharePoint Saturday UK 2012
The latest edition of SharePoint Saturday UK will be coming to Nottingham on December 8th 2012 thanks to the chaps at Lightning Tools and Intelligent Decisioning. This is the only major Free conference in the UK that covers SharePoint and attracts a host of speakers and professionals to cover the many diverse topics surrounding SharePoint. …
Aug 15
Sorry, something went wrong–SP2013 and Development VMs
I tend to run around with a laptop that contains a whole bunch of Virtual Machines for my SharePoint work. The latest bunch are running the SharePoint 2013 Beta release which really doesn’t seem to take too kindly to having the VM’s suspended on a regular basis. The problem seems to lie with the security …