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Discovery Method: 5 Whys
Anyone who has ever dealt with a young child knows the exasperation of their persistent questioning. In my youth, I can distinctly remember coming close to risking domestic violence charges when my curious younger sister would interrupt every movie a hundred times to ask “Why did he do that? What does this mean? Where did…
Editing CM12 reports in the ConfigMgr console with SQL Server 2008 R2
Fellow MVP Steve Thompson has created a nice post for reporting in ConfigMgr 2012. Read the full post here. Presently, if you have installed ConfigMgr 2012 with SQL Server 2008 R2, and attempt to edit a report from the console, you will get an error message that states “Report Builder not available”. The problem here,…
The Hydration Kit for ConfigMgr 2012 RC1 is available for download
Johan has posted a new hydration kit for 2012 ConfigMgr RC1. Deployment Research > Blog – The Hydration Kit for ConfigMgr 2012 RC1 is available for download Here is a download for deploying a complete ConfigMgr 2012 RC1 infrastructure in either Hyper-V or VMware: One Domain Controller and one ConfigMgr 2012 RC1 member server –…
Microsoft Office 365 Trust Center
Office 365 Beta Exams
I received a notice that I have been invited to take two beta exams for Office 365. The testing will happen in January and if I pass both with be an MCITP for Office 365!
Properly Handling K2 Exceptions
My sampleK2Process project on K2Underground.com has an implementation of this approach in a ready to go package. However, the code is squirreled away and not convenient to get to, so I’m going to post here as many of you may have not noticed the flexibility and power that K2 provides in the error event handlers.…
The Long Wow!
The Long Wow is a means to achieving long-term customer loyalty through systematically impressing your customers again and again. Going a step beyond just measuring loyalty, the Long Wow is a holistic approach to fostering and creating awesome human experiences. Hope you were able to join our webcast today. We wanted to provide the…
Upgrading Community Kit for SharePoint Enhanced Blog Edition (CKS:EBE) to SharePoint 2010
Over the last few months I have been working on upgrading our SharePoint 2007 sites to SharePoint 2010. I was given the pleasure to upgrade and rebrand this blog site collection! Not only did I have to upgrade SharePoint blog site, but I also had to make the Community Kit for SharePoint Enhanced Blogs Edition…
Blogging with Windows Live Writer and Microsoft Word on SharePoint 2010 using CKS:EBE
**** UPDATE 12/17/2012 **** I’ve recently upgraded to Windows 8 and decided to start blogging again. I decided to use this time to test out Windows Live Writer 2012. It appears that that majority of features are working again as long as you follow the instructions below and pick "Other Blog" instead of "SharePoint Blog".…