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No…I’m not talking about the paid service for Hotmail Plus.  I’m talking about +addresses .  I just found this listed (amongst others) on the Hotmail Tips site. Hotmail Plus Addresses allows you to send an email to your alias +anyword @hotmail...

I finally got around to compiling all of my social media sources on Microsoft and innovation and published them in a digital newspaper supported by paper.li .  Here’s a snapshot of the newspaper.  It publishes daily, so subscribe or check back...

Sick of that IE 9 warning bar at the bottom about your add-on’s being too slow?  Frustrated that you you have specified “Ask me later” a million times, and it still prompts you each time you load IE? Next time you get this, click the button “ Choose...

A great article came across my RSS feed today and I thought I would share an image out of it.  Much of my new role involves creativity and innovation.  Keeping things fresh and maintaining energy are critical success factors in my creativity...

Whooo, it’s been a long time since I posted.  Well, here’s to making up for lost time.  I will be presenting at SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities (again) a half-day session on Upgrading to SharePoint 2010 with Brian Caauwe.  We will cover...

Microsoft just released a public beta of the Microsoft Desktop Player.  It’s a Silverlight application (which can be download as a WPF app to go offline) that provides access to hundreds of resources including webcasts, podcasts, whitepapers and...

Bing now has a Visual Search for PowerShell cmdelts! On the left there are Refiners used to narrow down your selection by Category, Verb, Noun, and other groupings.  After clicking on a cmdlet, you get a details “help” pane on the right with example...

Here’s a great little script that I used to list out all of the Custom Actions available in a farm.  What’s great about the script is that it returns the CustomActions in XML so you can vary the output.  My favorite is using the Out-GridView...

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I have a really cool 2010 lab environment at home and one of the things I wanted to do was to make sure I was able to demo SharePoint 2010 ‘s claims-based authentication capabilities, especially using ADFS v2. I was amazed at how straight forward the...

I use SharePoint in my lab at home and recently started organizing all of my personal documents in there as well. The one thing that always concerns me is the safety of those files living in a lab environment on a Beta/RC product. So, to ease my nerves...

There is a optional hotfix for WCF 3.5 SP1 which is a prerequisite for SharePoint 2010.  Depending on the operating system, the relevant hotfix can be found below. Windows Server 2008 (RTM) with Service Pack 2:  KB971831 Windows Server 2008...

In one of my previous posts , I walked through how to provision a SharePoint farm using PowerShell. You can also install SharePoint from a CD using PowerShell as well. I use this in my lab at home so I don’t have to attend the installs when I am rebuilding...

Microsoft just released SharePoint 2010 Beta 2!  Beta 2 will consist of build 14.0.4536.1000.   For Beta 1 users only or partners running an earlier version e.g. 14.0.4514.1009 (Beta 2 Escrow), you can upgrade to Beta 2 by installing this...

Note: This post applies to SharePoint Server 2010 Beta 2 and Visual Studio Ultimate Beta 2. I ran into two issues today that had me tied up for a few hours so I thought I would share.  The first was simple: SPFarm _farm = SPFarm.Local;  ...

These HOLs are about a month old now, but I wanted to share them for anyone who missed the announcement at SPC.  There are 10 Hands On Labs in both C# and Visual Basic for SharePoint 2010 Beta 2. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang...

< Update 2010.02.23 Re-ordered provisioning steps to fit with supported test cases> NEW! Looking for a simplified process for working with SharePoint and PowerShell? Check out: SPModule . <Update 2009.11.20 Initialize-SPResourceSecurity and...

Windows Management Framework, which includes Windows PowerShell 2.0, WinRM 2.0, and BITS 4.0, has been officially released today.  This down-level release is now supported for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows...

For those wishing to get started on PowerShell, here is an excellent free eBook by Dr. Tobias Weltner, PowerShell MVP. http://powershell.com/Mastering-PowerShell.pdf

One of the great features in PowerShell 2.0 is the ability to extend .NET object types to add additional custom properties and methods.  For instance, the type System.String does not have a property called IsANumber that returns whether or not the...

Developers of SharePoint should be giddy with excitement in all of the tools and features coming out of Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010.  Here are the biggest take-a-ways from Paul Andrew’s talk on the 2010 developer platform: 1....

You may have already heard that SharePoint 2010 will ship with a PowerShell provider that contains over 500 cmdlets for you to administer SharePoint. The killer though, is that these commandlets can be executed remotely with PowerShell 2.0 WinRM. ...

  I’ll be at SharePoint Conference 2009 and will be participating with EndUserSharePoint.com in their LiveBlogging sessions.  Live blogging/twittering at SharePoint Conference 2009: SPC09 Live Blogs #SPC09 Live Twitter

I will be attending the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas next week and wanted to share my schedule with those that might be interested in checking back for content.  I will be blogging on content throughout the event. There may be multiple sessions...