Paul Andrew

Hey, I'm presenting at TechEd North America 2013 for Office 365 on Security and Identity Management. Here's the talks that I'm involved in. 1. Overview of Office 365 Identity Management 2. Security in Microsoft Office 365 3. Microsoft Office...

It's posted here: http://www.youtube.com/user/sharepointconference#p/search/0/w3bxy5UbCro

I have been trying out code samples on Windows Phone. The platformer game sample moves a player left and right by tilting the phone in the direction to travel. The sample code as published on 10/4/2011 has a problem where the player gets stuck when you...

On Monday this week I just started a new job on the planning and strategy team in the Windows Phone division at Microsoft. I’ll be working on the developer platform for the team and the work will likely be a lot of research, analysis and coding. Right...

You can watch the demo that I worked on here: http://www.mssharepointconference.com/pages/keynote.aspx Skip through to 42 minutes to see the 10 minute demo. Watch as SharePoint 2010 handles the network cable to the SQL Server being disconnected...

We just published the Scale Test Report for Very Large Scale Document Repositories on Technet. This is all the details of the scale tests we did to help support the increases that we made in the SharePoint Limits and Boundaries document . The first...

I am pleased to announce that TechNet have published two new Training Courses for Implementing SharePoint Solutions. Each of these courses contains 15 modules representing 5 days of instructor led training and each module includes video lessons, hands...

We have two new demos of SharePoint 2010 for Internet Sites capability demos. The first one shows a SharePoint 2010 based web site that includes search, web analytics, social networking integration, and web content management. http://www.demomate.com...

Today we announced new scalability limits for SharePoint content databases . SharePoint 2010 implementations can make use of scale up and scale out. Scale up means increasing hardware resources available so that the software can do more. Scale out means...

What is Remote Blog Storage (RBS) and what can it do for me? View the second part of this SharePoint Team Blog article . Additional articles on RBS with SharePoint 2010: Plan for RBS Manage RBS Overview of RBS Install and configure RBS...

Today we are updating the SharePoint Boundaries and Limits document on TechNet with larger content database size limits and we are clarifying the value in Remote Blob Storage (RBS). With these changes to the SharePoint software boundaries the discussion...

The scalability test results for SharePoint large scale document management is here . The SharePoint 2010 support boundaries and limits document is here .

RBS is an add-in technology for SharePoint that stores large binary data such as word documents outside of the primary SQL database. It is useful to move some of this data onto less expensive storage media. A new paper on Remote Blob Storage (RBS)...

The VSeWSS v1.3 is now released and is available for download here . You should uninstall the VSeWSS 1.3 CTP and install this version. There is no difference to the project file format so Visual Studio 2008 projects using the VSeWSS format should not...

I've been working on the SPDisposeCheck tool with a few other guys and we've just finished a new release. You will find lots more information about the new release at Roger Lamb's blog .

The ever popular MVP chats are back. Cross posting from here . Do you have questions about SharePoint? Want to learn more about the recently launched SharePoint 2010?  By popular request, SharePoint MVPs from around the world are participating in...

We completed and published the SharePoint VSeWSS Import tool . This tool is an add-in to Visual Studio 2010 and it adds a new SharePoint project template for importing a VSeWSS project. VSeWSS or the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint...

I just got a new Microsoft arc mouse and I really like it. I'm down in New Orleans this week for TechEd USA so using it on random surfaces at the event and in my hotel and it's been working great. I also like how the wireless works when presenting, unlike...

Have you seen this popup exception message from the Visual Studio Just-In-Time (JIT) Debugger? Here’s the resulting event log error:   An unhandled exception occurred and the process was terminated. Application ID: DefaultDomain Process ID: 6148...

I saw a call stack today from an attempt to use VSeWSS 1.3 on a SharePoint 2007 farm installation. VSeWSS is the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. It requires WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 and also Visual Studio 2008. The SharePoint...

We just published an online course for developers to learn about SharePoint 2010 . This is updated for RTM. If you have some experience developing with .NET then you can learn SharePoint. The course includes: 10 modules introducing developers to SharePoint...

Three new MSDN Virtual Labs are live running SharePoint Server 2010 and Visual Studio 2010. You can work on these labs and learn SharePoint 2010 development without having to install SharePoint 2010 or Visual Studio 2010 on your machine. All you need...

I really like my Canon MP980 scanner. It scans 35mm negatives nicely and I can go to it anytime and scan a document which I can direct to any PC at home. But it’s really hard to install the drivers. And I tend to reinstall OS’s a lot. I’m...

If you get your first SharePoint 2010 workflow project from someone else, chances are you don’t have a Workflow History list on your SharePoint machine. This will result in this error message when you try to deploy the workflow from within Visual Studio...

You can download SharePoint Foundation 2010 now. The download page says it works on Windows 7 Enterprise; Windows 7 Professional; Windows 7 Ultimate; Windows Server 2008 R2; Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2; Windows Vista Service Pack 2. If you...