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  • 2010 – A Scottish Odyssey: Part 4 – White Outs, Sunshine and Local Ales

    At the end of Part 3 I had a fantastic stay in the Forest Way Bunkhouse as a guest of Iain.  I woke up the next morning and enjoyed a fantastic breakfast cooked by Iain.  My feet felt good, I felt good.  I packed my rucksack with some additional provisions which I’d purchased from… more …

  • “Access Denied” when creating Managed Service Account using Powershell

      Following Spencer Harbar’s advice when configuring the User Profile Synchronization Service in SharePoint 2010 I decided to use Managed Service Accounts in Windows 2008 R2, was hit with an issue striaght away.  I entered the command   >New-ADServiceAccount -name spcontent -AccountPassword(ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText "{your password}" -Force) -Path "CN=Managed Service Accounts,DC=RIDGIANDM,DC=RIDGIAN,DC=CO,DC=UK"   which was correct,… more …

  • Poweshell Error “The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered”

      If you’re trying to connect to a SharePoint Farm using Powershell and you’ve added in the necessary cmdlet library by typing:   > Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Sharepoint.Powershell   when you type   > Get-SPFarm   you may  get the following error:   The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered.  … more …

  • 2010 – A Scottish Odyssey: Part 3 – Bogs, Logs, VW Vans and Tesco Workers

    After the unscheduled visit to Inverness described in Part 2, I was able to continue my tour of Wester Ross with new boots and a renewed determination that I could complete the trek I’d set out to do. I decided however on a change to the itinerary.  Due to the poor state of my… more …

  • SharePoint 2010 Foundation Rocks!

      I finally got around to installing SharePoint 2010 Foundation today on my laptop.  I followed the MSDN article at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869(office.14).aspx to the letter and it was a Ronseal moment (it did exactly what it said on the tin).  My thanks to my good friend Andy Maggs for pointing out the article to me.  So,… more …

  • Which Search Engine?

    I’m a convert to Bing.  Great results and great features. Google is still an awesome search engine though. It’s Google themselves I’m starting to have issues with, but if you want to compare results between the search engines try this great link.  You’ll see this rather … um .. green screen …     Type… more …

  • 2010 – A Scottish Odyssey: Part 2 – Trainspotting and Bodge Tape

    The Pro’s and Con’s of Rail Travel After completing my preparation in Part 1, I decided to get to Scotland by train.  Moreover I decided I’d treat myself to first class. I was heading for the North West highlands and a few people said, “Why the heck am I going by train? Why don’t… more …

  • 2010 – A Scottish Odyssey: Part 1 – The Kit and Kaboodle

    Good Decisions, Bad Decisions I’m writing this entry on the train, returning from 5 days in the highlands of Scotland, walking and hiking.  It’s good I think that working in the IT industry, that we occasionally get ourselves away from the hustle and bustle and do something completely different.  I thought I’d share my… more …

  • Finally!

      I was very happy to see this following image when I went to visit my MSDN downloads today …     It’s not available to everyone yet, but if you’ve got the relevant MSDN subscription – it’s there for the taking. Result.   Cheers   Dave Mc more …

Meet the blog host, Dave Mc.

Dave Mc muses about history, travel, writing, coaching, technology and life, family and the world around us. You may agree with his opinions, you may not, that’s life …