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Movin’ On Up – A SharePoint 2013 Migration Case Study 16 Aug 2013 | 06:27 am
I recently had an opportunity to lead an effort to create an upgrade plan for a company that was on SharePoint 2007 and wanted to take advantage of the features of SharePoint 2013. Last night, at the...
Upcoming Presentations 30 Jul 2013 | 02:06 am
I have two upcoming presentations in Austin. On August 14th, I will be presenting Movin’ On Up – A SharePoint 2013 Migration Case Study at the Austin SharePoint User Group Zachry’s SharePoint enviro...
The Only Job You’ll Ever Have 16 May 2013 | 06:00 pm
The secret to prevailing in a job interview is to remember one simple fact. There is only one job. You have only ever had one job, and (as far as I can tell) you’ll only ever have one job. Your job i...
The Business Card As A Career Tool 16 Apr 2013 | 10:00 pm
After talking with a job seeker the other day, I asked for his card so I could keep in touch with him. He replied that his company didn’t give its employees business cards. He didn’t have a personal b...
Speaking at SharePoint Saturday Houston – Group Therapy Returns! 5 Apr 2013 | 07:45 pm
A week to go until SharePoint Saturday Houston 2013, and I have been selected as a speaker! Once again, I’ll be presenting SharePoint Group Therapy – A SharePoint Governance Workshop. Bring your Share...
Quick Fix: “The document could not be opened for editing. A Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Compatible application could not be found to edit the docu... 19 Mar 2013 | 06:00 pm
Problem: A user tries to open an InfoPath form in the application instead of the browser, and get an error message: The user can open the file in the browser just fine, and has been able to open the f...
Favorite SharePoint Feature This Week: “Manage files which have no checked in version” 14 Mar 2013 | 12:19 am
This is one that will come in very handy if you have users who upload documents via Explorer, but you have required metadata in the library. That never happens in environments I work in. In each libra...
Get More from SPD Workflows – #spsatx 2013 4 Mar 2013 | 10:29 pm
Slides from my Lightning Talk at SharePoint Saturday Austin March 2, 2013. Get more from SPD workflow #spsatx 2013 from Jim Adcock Last year I learned to dislike slides, but I wanted to have the infor...
Quick Fix: Anonymous Login Error 21 Feb 2013 | 12:41 am
An error message appears in the server Application event log: Source: SharePoint Foundation EventID: 3351 Level: Critical Error: SQL database login for ‘SharePoint_ConfigDB’ on instance DATABASENAME f...
Warning: PowerShell Won’t Throw An Error When You Are About to Kill Your Web Application 14 Feb 2013 | 09:10 pm
Here is a little gotcha that PowerShell and SharePoint hit me with. PowerShell will not return an error when you assign a user account to a SharePoint web application if the user does not exist or has...
