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Background It took a moment for me to make sense of it, but Bil Simser is the guest here for NothingButSharePoint.com discussing Furuknap and MarcAnderson blog articles that are duking it out over (mmm.. I mean discussing nicely) ootb vs custom SharePoint dev. Or more to the point is modified ootb really ootb or not.…
Deployment extraordinaire Johan Arwidmark has created a nice blog post on creating an environment to hydrate your server and lab builds. Check out his excellent blog post here, and be sure to watch the included video on how to setup and configure the solutions.
Just Announced! Office 365 Beta has moved from “Limited Beta” status to “Public Beta” status. This means that anyone can now sign up and test drive Office 365. Here are some resources to get you started: Home Page for Office 365 Community Website (Blogs, Forums, Wikis, etc.) Deployment Guide Beta Service Descriptions To sign…
In an earlier post, I mentioned that I was going to learn more about testing web application security and share my experiences here. I’m using a tool called the OWASP WebGoat Project to learn some of the basics of testing web application security. The first lesson that I completed covered vulnerabilities in role-based security. Specifically,…
Thanks for coming to my blog. I’m a Software Engineering Consultant for Catapult Systems. From time to time I will be posting whatever interesting programming related information here. This time I’ll be discussing .NET and LINQ2SQL and/or EntityFramework. The LINQ2SQL DBML Visual creator allows you to build ORM objects that map to underlying tables with…
Johan has a nice post over on his new blog talking about the default partition method in MDT and a nice workaround for when working with VM’s. Read his original post here. As you most likely know, MDT 2010 by default partition the drives "slightly" different than the normal Windows 7 setup. MDT creates the…
Run this from a .bat file, from a shortcut in your Start Menu: IISReset NET STOP SPTIMERV4 NET START SPTIMERV4 If you see this, after running the script, you probably fixed. Restart Visual Studio as well to be doubly sure, and F5 to your heart’s content. If that doesn’t fix it, then I guess there’s…
About the only method for troubleshooting issues in OSD is to drop to a command-prompt (by pressing F8) and then running whatever tool you need; e.g., Trace32. The only real problem with this method is making whatever tools you need available to you. This is typically done by adding the tools directly to the boot…
I’ve been meaning to blog about this for awhile now, but just haven’t had the time. I got a kick in the pants at MMS 2011 this year when Keith Garner mentioned this during one of his sessions (BE32), thanks Keith. I had a client send me the following link from an older post on…
Great post over on The Remote Desktop Services Team Blog. Read the original post here. While we’ve blogged a lot about Microsoft RemoteFX and how virtual machines benefit from it in a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), we realized that we hadn’t always discussed it in detail in relation to Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session…