I meet many companies who mainly work for enterprise Customers. For many of them, it’s not completely clear what’s the gold in building a Cloud-based service. The problem is that they approach it from a perspective of migrating their existing enterprise...

Many companies ask me about practices to promote their Cloud service. In this post, I explain what works best for some of my real successful clients. I work primarily with Windows Azure clients in in CEE region, but these rules are true to any Cloud or...

Many of my clients ask the golden recipé for releasing their first, successful SaaS/Cloud service. As with everything else, there’s no golden rule here, but there are a few points worth mentioning. Number One: Are you the best on the market? First, do...

More precisely – it’s charging but not syncing (the little Zune icon doesn’t display in the Zune app). Starting the Zune app as an Admin solved the problem. Phew … :)  I hope that it helps.

Thank you very much for those who came to see our session on the UC&C conference. These are the resources that I’ve promised to share: GEAR Up for end user adoption: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/gearup SharePoint team’s blog – Governance resource...

I’m in the process of preparing for my SharePoint conference presentation and came across an odd behavior which is caused by an introduction of a security consideration into SP1. The symptom is that SharePoint designer workflows are not starting automatically...

I'm happy to announce that I've finally passed my BVPS exam. To date, I'm the second BVPS certified person in Ireland, the first one is Paddy Baxter , who have finished the exam 2 minutes earlier (and 23 points higher) than I did. Well done Paddy and...

I’ve been through many SharePoint projects in the last 2 years and learned many lessons and seen good/bad practices. When I’m talking to Customers I always mention the four pillars (or four quadrants) of successful SharePoint deployments – it helps to...

I’ve installed the M3 build of Windows 7 a week ago. I’ve installed it on my production laptop – all or nothing! :)  I had no problems with it at all, in fact, it’s a little bit faster than Vista was on the same hardware – will see how it changes...

A Microsoft case study has been published about the New World of Work project at eircom in Ireland. This is a project that I'm very proud of. The Microsoft project team was Paul Mason, Paul Flavin, Phillip Fitzpatrick, David Nagle, Mark McCrory, Jussi...

Martha Rotter interviewed me on Speech Server and Office Communications Server and released the audio here . Enjoy it!

In this series, I would like to outline what's SharePoint governance, what happens if you don't think of it, what are the benefits of having a governance guide for your environment and I'll also give you a hint on how to start thinking about it. Microsoft...

Tadadaaaam! I've got a new blog where I'll blog only Speech Server and OCS topics - it's on Marshall Harrison's site at http://gotspeech.net site, the blog's URL is http://gotspeech.net/blogs/dszabospeaks . Enjoy it!

A friend of mine (a Senior Developer in the Visual Studio/Nav product group) said this to me a year ago: You can do what your tools allow you to do. In other words, your tools are your best friends. I remember, Kalman told this to me in a better...

Office Communications Server 2007 is Microsoft's IP communication solution and it allows companies to leverage their network infrastructure for voice, video communication, instant messaging, audio/video calls and for much more. You may ask what's the...

I did a search on the Internet about the problem and couldn't really find anything useful. Symptoms You navigate to the Team Sites page and click on the "Site Map" link, you get the following message: Unable to display this Web Part. The Table of Contents...

Happy New Year! I hope that you had fun during the holidays and you didn't eat too much - or at least you can balance it with some gym exercise in the upcoming days. :) A few weeks ago, I installed MOSS at a Customer here in Ireland and I had more difficulties...

By working together with one of our favorite Customers, we realized that the Microsoft NX-6000 webcam doesn't work with Office Communicator 2007. I'll address this to the product groups and ask them to publish it officially if they haven't yet. By the...

Dear Colleagues at Intel Corporation! Would it be so hard to release a video driver for my Toshiba Portege M400 that doesn't flicker and restores back to 800x600 almost every time I unlock my laptop? :) It ruins my productivity and lifts my blood pressure...

My wife is seeking a job (by the way, aren't you looking for an experienced psychologist in Dublin, specialized for children? :) ) and we were going thru all these crazy expressions - like good eye for details, etc. So, I started thinking if I have a...

During my demo environment installation (OCS and Exchange 2007), I got a few blockers that I couldn't find documented on the Internet. Maybe, it could be of your help. Here they are: OCS Deployment: Failure [0xC3EC7924] Schema definition for the requested...

Last week, I visited one of my favorite Customers in Belfast. They experienced performance issues in their Customer's MOSS 2007 production environment. Symptoms The symptoms were the followings: a list item takes 10-20 seconds to open, sometimes more...

In Dublin it's always raining, so there's always some time to post a new article. Two useful code snippets for WSS3 developers: Smartly export a document from a WSS Document Library: // Set up the webclient with the correct credentials WebClient webClient...

Today, I was playing with DLINQ and would like to share my findings with you. First of all, if you never heard of LINQ or want a basic intro, I suggest starting with the following 3 short videos (in order): C# 3.0 Language Enhancements in action...

It happens all the time since every application uses MAPI to get some information from your MAPI profile. My advice is to close Microsoft Office Groove, Office Communicator, Messenger(s), the sidebar on Vista (I have 2 Outlook gadgets running there),...