AUSTIN, Texas – March 24, 2011 – Award-winning Microsoft IT consulting firm Catapult Systems today announced that Joseph Dunagan, one of the company’s senior consultants, was recently named a member of the exclusive K2 Insiders community. Based in Catapult Systems’ Washington D.C. office, Dunagan has spent over 15 years solving complex IT issues for a…
Over the years that I’ve worked on teams developing software, I regularly hear of the “three legged stool”, a metaphor for balancing three opposing aspects of the development process. The metaphor works well because if any leg of a stool is shorter than the other, the stool can stay upright but any pressure can cause…
Microsoft announced today that codename “Atlanta” has been renamed “System Center Advisor”. Needless to say, this product sounds really cool and I can’t wait to get a preview. “System Center Advisor (formerly Microsoft codename Atlanta) is a cloud service that enables IT professionals to assess their server configuration and proactively avoid problems. With System…
If you are reading this then there is a good chance that you are spinning your wheels right about now. I don’t have a complete answer for you either, but I can describe what I was doing and the players involved as I honed the issue down to a specific cause. 1) The issue had…
I recently read that the State of Minnesota spent $41 million, not including legal fees, on software that was never completed. The program was supposed to simplify and automate much of the processing for MinnesotaCare eligibility determinations. This system would speed up processing and reduce fraud. In reading the article, I felt it was important…
There are a gazillion informative blog articles already out there regarding U2U’s CAML Query Builder tool. However, there are also a billion useless links and navigation rabbit holes to versions of the tool that will not install in a SharePoint 2010 environment. What you need for that is the standalone client tool that will allow…
You might have noticed in my previous post that I was using CAML.NET to build up SharePoint CAML queries specifically for an SPSiteDataQuery object. I want to be clear that I was unsuccessful at leveraging SPSiteDataQuery to retrieve that data I needed from SharePoint 2010. I was so excited to be cruising along with intellisense…
I really liked the feature added in OpsMgr 2007 R2 that lets you download and import new management packs directly from Microsoft’s catalog web service: But later I started going back to the old way of downloading the management packs separately, since this also gets the documentation (usually in Microsoft Word format). No…
So I was challenged today to leverage the SPSiteDataQuery class to access list data that spans multiple lists/sites instead of just enumerating all of those sites and lists and then using a standard SPQuery against each list. First off, it’s worth noting that I could not just use examples in this link->, because I don’t…
Recently I was working with a client and we were talking about “shimming” an application using Microsoft’s Compatibility Administrator so it worked in Windows 7 . We ran into an odd error. When we tried to shim one of their apps we got the error “This version of the Compatibility Administrator only supports applying…
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