Understanding the new content library store in 5 minutes
Fellow MVP Kent Agerlund has a great post on the new content library in Configuration Manager 2012. This topic came up on a email distribution list today. Check out his post here.
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Hands on with the PST Capture Tool
I wanted to test out the new PST Capture tool, http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/01/30/pst-time-to-walk-the-plank.aspx, specifically for migrating PST content to an Exchange Online mailbox. I recently setup my lab environment with a Hybrid Office 365 deployment. First off the documentation for the tool, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh781036.aspx, from the documentation the tool actually has three components: PST Capture Central Service At…
ModelMetadata for CSS Classifiers in ASP.NET MVC
With a type-per-hierarchy approach to data mapping, one (or more) of the columns represents a classifier. In this scheme, the classifier field acts like metadata. This can also be a useful approach in ASP.NET MVC for designing a model which using CSS, needs to be displayed slightly differently depending on the value of a…
Two Big Announcements Today from Microsoft Related to Office 365
Today via the Office 365 Blog, http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft_office_365_blog/archive/2012/01/30/update-on-blackberry-business-cloud-services-for-microsoft-office-365.aspx, Microsoft announces the full availability of the BlackBerry Business Cloud Services! This is a big step to allow companies that still heavily rely on BlackBerry devices used by end-users a way to move to Office 365. Another big announcement came from the great guys at the Exchange Team…
Community Kit for SharePoint Enhanced Blog Edition (CKS:EBE) Archive Count Fix
Catapult’s very own Rachel Switzer posted about upgrading the CommunityKit for SharePoint Enahanced Blog Edition to SharePoint 2010. In that post she mentions a couple of known issues, including the archive count which displays a count for all posts, not just those that have been published. Fixing the issue is actually pretty simple. In…
Using using? Never say never
This is a repost from my personal site: I was having a discussion with a colleague of mine regarding use of the using statement as it applies to WCF calls. I always wrap using statements around any IDisposable (except in a few cases, like instantiating the Unity container instance for the application). It turns out…
Office 365 Hybrid Solution Improvements with Exchange 2010 SP2
One of the comments I received about my Blog series on Office 365 Hybrid Deployment with Exchange 201 SP2 was to detail the improvements with the SP2 Hybrid wizard and what steps from a Hybrid deployment prior to SP2. So here it goes! Previous to Exchange 2010 SP2, the process for creating a full Hybrid…
Hiding Master Page Elements from the SharePoint 2010 Dialog
I ran into this issue with a heavily branded SharePoint site we recently upgraded to SharePoint 2010. I noticed the branding elements were being included in the SharePoint dialog. This is definitely not what we intended for our SharePoint dialogs. Thankfully, SharePoint makes it easy to strip those elements out by adding the following class…
Using SharePoint 2010 PowerShell to Enumerate Webs and Lists and Modify Advanced List Settings
I recently went through the exercise of upgrading our internal SharePoint environment from 2007 to 2010. Some of these sites were heavily customized and while we did experience our share of issues, all-in-all it was definitely not as painful as I initially predicted. And I have to say that my favorite feature of SharePoint 2010…
Entity Framework 4 New Function Import Complex Type Option
Let’s face it. There are times when a stored procedure is going to create a more efficient query, and provide the flexibility you need to return attributes from multiple SQL tables in a non-traditional way. In my case, I had a number of different log tables that I wanted to combine into a single result. …