Just a note for those who may be sending emails to me via my blog, etc. I'm on vacation till June 6th, so any responses to your queries etc may be slightly delayed :) Just thought I would note this :) - Keith

Chris Gideon has posted a great article with a list of the most common reasons why you'll see the dreaded WSS Event 1000 DB Connectivity even as noted in my previous article Troubleshooting WSS Event 1000 DB Connectivity Problems . In my article I noted...

History of Musical Influences by that SharePoint Guy - Part 2 - 1978-1979 1978 During this year, I discovered ELO , The Bee Gees (No, it wasn't the Disco releases like Stayin' Alive, etc that really caught my attention with them, but more on their...

The Tangerine Dream Collection Project - Part 2 - The cost estimate and the wifes' reaction! The Wifes' Reaction So I told my wife about my little project, and to my complete utter amazement, she stated "Ok" After I got back up off the floor...

In case you mised it on all the othe rblog sites :) Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Beta 2 is now available at http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/default.mspx Remember folks, it's a "Beta", but definately check it out if you have the hardware...

SharePoint Account Management using SPUserUtil - Part 3 - Auditing Accounts SPUserUtil will mean either WSSUserUtil or SPSUserUtil respectively (WSSUserUtil is used to administer Windows SharePoint Sites on a standalone WSS Farm/Virtual server OR...

History of Musical Influences by that SharePoint Guy - Part 1 - 1976-1977 I don't necessarily plan on detailing in chronological order the events that marked the musical influences on me, but I'll use it as the basic outline. Just note we may take...

As I was preparing for my first post of " The History of Musical Influences by that SharePoint Guy ", I did something that caused a stirring in me that's been going awhile, and thus it turned into a tornadic experience :) and I've started up a new project...

I've been playing around with the beta of Windows Media Player 11 ( See my previous post on this and the release of URGE ) I realized I haven't imported my "Somewhat" collection of tunes on my home box (Of course I realized that I don't even have everything...

SharePoint Account Management using SPUserUtil - Part 2 - Adding Accounts SPUserUtil will mean either WSSUserUtil or SPSUserUtil respectively (WSSUserUtil is used to administer Windows SharePoint Sites on a standalone WSS Farm/Virtual server OR...

I’ll be up at the Redmond campus the week of June 12 th , to work on a SharePoint project with some of our Customer Experience/Center of Excellence and Microsoft IT teams. I’d like to hook up with as many people as I can that we’ve had a casual “We...

Chris Gideon has started a series on NTLM Authentication with SharePoint You can see his first posting on this series here . Chris is a member of my team here at Microsoft. Chris is "THE GUY" when it comes to Domain specific issues. Chris has...

SharePoint Account Management using SPUserUtil - Part 1 - Cloning Accounts SPUserUtil will mean either WSSUserUtil or SPSUserUtil respectively (WSSUserUtil is used to administer Windows SharePoint Sites on a standalone WSS Farm/Virtual server OR Windows...

Download my music from URGE using Windows Media Player 11! Today we officially made available the beta for Windows Media Player 11 . URGE also launched today as well. URGE, from MTV Networks, is the featured digital music service for Windows...

SharePoint Account Management using SPUserUtil - Part 0 - Removing Accounts SPUserUtil will mean either WSSUserUtil or SPSUserUtil respectively (WSSUserUtil is used to administer Windows SharePoint Sites on a standalone WSS Farm/Virtual server OR Windows...

Man time flies. I'm finally getting to the point where I'm going to have some time to actually start working alot heavier on my User Management training. I dug around for the old post where I outlined this and see that it was WAY back in January!!...

So last night I see someone on my contact list show up with the following display name: " I'm an actor. I'm currently playing a geek at a software company " My first thought was "That's really freakin' hillarious" There is someone in my contact...

In case you haven't heard....The SharePoint Product Group signed off on Beta 2. See: Cabin doors are closed... taxiing has begun... http://www.bluedoglimited.com/SharePointThoughts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=232 This means you'll hopefully see more...

I just posted the latest version of my music newsletter for those of you that are interested. The email version will now be trimmed down to just the “ Inside This Issue ” section, giving you the freedom to choose which section you would specifically...

I get to actually flag multiple categories on this post :) Over the past few months, I've waited patiently for payments to arrive from the various digital download services that host my music. I knew that those sales, along with parsing my logs on...