Dave Mc's Blog

  • IIS WAMREG Admin Service – A Classic

      What is the IIS WAMREG Admin Service?  It often rears it’s ugly head in multi-server SharePoint farm installations.  If you don’t encounter it in configuring kerberos, then you encounter it  anyhow as your Event Log fills up with errors similar to this:   Log Name:            SystemLevel:                    Error Event Source:        System Event… more …

  • SharePoint in 2010

    Notice the title of this blog entry in SharePoint IN 2010, not SharePoint 2010, subtle huh?  OK I was spurred on to write this little missive, by reading Furuknaps latest blog entry here.  It’s a nice little entry and I thought I’d put my own spin on it as he raises some great points. … more …

  • If you’ve followed Copenhagen, then check out this video …

      Now you know me, I’m one of those horrible Anthropologic Global Warming sceptics – you now one of those evil deniers who actually has the gall to even think that there is a possibility that we humans are not actually totally responsible for the current apparent trend in rising temperatures … as I… more …

  • SharePoint 2010 at The Edge User Group

      I’m speaking at The Edge User Group in London on Wednesday January 20th on SharePoint 2010 – running my overview session. I’ll be sharing stage with Ian Cooper of  London .NET User Group and Alt .NET fame.  Not seen Ian for a while so it wil be good to catch up and also to… more …

  • Visio Services in SharePoint 2010 – Part 1

    Introduction This is Part 1 of a series of articles on Visio Services. One of the most exciting new features of SharePoint 2010 is the new Visio Services which enables you to publish data-bound Visio Diagrams to the web to view in either a full page screen or in a web part.  It’s a… more …

  • SharePoint Visio Services – Getting Them To Run!

      One of my favourite new features of SharePoint 2010 is Visio Services, so as soon as I had my SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 installed, I did a quick diagram in Visio 2010 and published it to SharePoint. I kept getting an error message saying "Visio Web Access is not available on this site"… more …

  • Global Warming Email Scandal?

      Wow! I’d missed this in amongst all the Sharepoint 2010 fun.   It looks like the East Anglia Uni centre for Climate Research has had it’s emails released. Hacked is the word used but apparently it’s looking like a whistle-blower job.  Roy Spencer in this blog entry gives some of the details and links where… more …

  • SharePoint 2010 Rocks With Silverlight …

      Is SharePoint 2010 the first Microsoft product to really rock with Silverlight? At last a product which doesn’t just use Silverlight for displaying the enevitable ‘bouncing balls’ … I was a bit gobsmacked when I clicked on the link shown below ….   and lo and behold, I saw the following Silverlight screen for selecting… more …

  • SharePoint 2010 – A First Install using Local Accounts

    There is probably going to be a few of these blog posts around, but I though I’d get in my effort whilst I can.  I downloaded the installer from MSDN with no issue, and spent a few moments considering which type of install I should do.  According to a few blog posts I’d read,… 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 …