Here is a great post on how to resolve an error in Windows Live Messenger when it suddenly stops signing in.  http://ee61re.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/unable-to-sign-in-to-windows-live-messengererror-81000490/ Delete the C:\users\<username>\AppData...

                When I attempt to install Windows 7 SP1 on multiple machines, I began the installation process as shown below. with the standalone and windows update version of...

I recently ran into this problem when I had to set up Direct Access with a Hyper-V machine.  See here for the cause and resolution (Thanks thompal)! http://blogs.msdn.com/b/thompal/archive/2009/11/06/hyper-v-virtual-machine-connection-and-direct...

Here is a quick page that details the different editions and features for SharePoint 2010. http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/buy/Pages/Editions-Comparison.aspx

Great article on virtualization for SharePoint 2010. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607811(office.14).aspx

Here is some great information via MitchP on the number and characteristics of SharePoint including their availability supported models (mirroring, etc.) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678868(office.14).aspx Example of content for the config...

Here are some “Show Notes” for the SharePoint Solution Designer course for WCM that Mark Arend and I taught on 4/26/2010. Also note that I’ll update this post with information on when you can get access to the Visio diagrams we discussed today as well...

Here is a great post from Maxime on the behavior differences between IE6 and IE 7/8 when browsing or interacting with SharePoint 2010.  The great thing about this post is that it has a visual comparison of several use cases. http://blogs.msdn.com...

Here is a great resource on how to build team projects for SharePoint in TFS 2010 (also lists steps for TFS 2008). http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ff622991.aspx Quick reference excerpt from the article below: Steps TFS2010 TFS2008 1 Install Team Build...

Here is a great reference for configuring SharePoint 2010 for Kerberos authentication.  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee806870(office.14).aspx#section1 Core concepts include: Ensuring SQL Server and the WFE/App servers in the farm can...

Hi all,           Before writing something that would take some time to do in terms of loading data, I was able to successfully conduct a bulk load of data into SharePoint with MSAccess.  Here is my mock...

When browsing the network map in Windows 7 or Vista, you may be able to see some computers, but not all of them.  This is because network mapping is not enabled on domain networks by default.  You may see this screen on a client machine: “Network...

Just so I don’t forget, here is how to convert a string to a byte array: System.Text.ASCIIEncoding encoding = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding(); encoding.GetBytes(yourStringHere)

When trying to create a unit test in a test project, the “Create Unit Tests” screen shows no types, thus the wizard cannot continue.  The [OK] button is disabled, and the only thing the user can do is cancel the unit test wizard.  This happens...

Here are some of my most recent technical articles that I wrote (and helped write) as part of the VSTS Ranger program as well as the SharePoint Ranger program.  As you may know, the ranger programs are essentially field extensions of the product...

I usually build a Virtual Machine that consists of the following for SharePoint development: Windows Server 2008 SQL Server 2008 SP1 Visual Studio 2008 SP1 with Team Explorer (and VSeWSS 1.3) Office 2007 SP2 Domain Controller and DNS Services I use host...

Here is a great utility to migrate SPD workflows and content types across site collections. http://spwflmigrator.codeplex.com/ Never used it myself, but it appears quite useful.

This codeplex project allows developers to package list lookup columns as a feature and as part of a content type.  This gets us around a challenge where developers try to deploy a content type that has a list lookup column which is dependent on...

Great forum post on how to resolve the error “cannot connect to the virtual machine because the authentication certificate is expired or invalid”.  It all has to do with a certificate on the Hyper-V server that is only good for one year.  Al...

  What is the best way to judge social networking IQ?  In my mind its not necessarily your knowledge of social networking from an academic perspective, nor is it your knowledge of the technical implementation and networks of social networking...

Every now and then I like to update folks on what I’m running on my hardware.  Below you’ll find information on what my hardware is and what I choose to run on it. Here is my newest rig info: Hardware Lenovo T61P 4 GB of RAM SATA Optical Bay Adapter...

Because I am running Windows Server Enterprise 2008 on my Laptop with Hyper-V enabled, I continuously Remote Desktop to my Virtual Machine.  Even for a domain admin in the guest, you have to have group policy configured to allow the Remote Desktop...

See this link for methods to enable Remote Debugging: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bt727f1t.aspx

While the title of this post might indicate that there is a sweeping document collaboration strategy that all teams and people use, that’s not the case necessarily.  We are big at dogfooding which is a made up verb indicating that we love to try...

Scenario: A Visual Studio Workflow Foundation Workflow needs to terminate with approval given the following circumstances: 1. At least one task has been completed out of the many tasks that were assigned via the workflow to approvers 2. A field on the...