Are you a concerned citizen with ideas on how technology could solve social problems ? A developer with the knowledge, technical skills, vision, and desire to contribute to the future ? Have you been waiting for a reason to write a Metro App for Windows...

I was talking with a coworker who focuses on Business Intelligence. He described the job as taking something boring like accounting (sorry accountants) and making it sexy. Like a professional stylist for a career. I thought that was pretty funny, but...

From time to time, I’ll finish a book on my nightstand and write a small review both for myself to remember and sum up the book and share it with all of you to provide my feedback on the book. I would encourage you to read any of the books I post about...

In developing apps for Windows Phone, I’ve been using the Northern Lights code library which includes Little Watson; a library for packaging exceptions and sending them to a http listener. The demo application uses a php page to send an email. Scott Hanselman...

Let’s suppose you are migrating from an existing Records Management solution to Records Center in SharePoint 2010 to manage your records retention and disposition. How do you import and/or create your existing file plan in SharePoint? The Microsoft.Office...

I was recently patching some servers when I ran into an issue with the October 2011 Cumulative Update updating on all of the servers. It would get to 17% and fail. When I looked in the Event Logs, there was an error from SPUpgradeJobDefinition that has...

  For smaller offices or departments, Outlook forms can act as a CRM or task management system in the absence of a formal system. However, what happens when your forms + filing system gets popular and needs to scale beyond your cubes? Data entered...

Security, like User Experience, is not something that can be bolted on, provided by an add-in, or added after the fact. Truly secure, survivable systems have to be designed in that manner all the time. The SDL focuses on Education, Process Improvement...

Has the question of SharePoint Search vs. FAST Search come up in your planning sessions? Do your users have requirements that can “only” be met with FAST Search? Is Search Server Express an appropriate decision in your environment? Microsoft has provided...