Dave Mc's Blog

  • Configuring Sharepoint to use Excel Services

      If you’ve tried configuring SharePoint to correctly use Excel Services in a Farm under Kerberos, you know that it can be a bit fiddly.  Essentially the steps are:   Configure Kerberos correctly for the Farm, and ensure it is working correctly.  The defacto blog entry is probably this one from Martin Kearn. Once… more …

  • Cloning a SharePoint Farm leads to “Access Denied”

      Had an interesting problem yesterday with a SharePoint Farm.  A customer of ours had cloned their prodution SharePoint farm using VMWare and then renamed the servers to avoid a naming clash.  Quite correctly they had removed their WFE from the farm and were trying to reconnect the WFE back onto the renamed Database… more …

  • Global Cooling rears it’s head …

      If you’re old enough to remember the early 1970’s you may remember the then dire predictions of the scientists that we were heading into an ice age.  Why?  Well, because we’d had a couple of decades of cooling temperatures, despite the burning of fossil fuels.  Sound familiar?  I didn’t believe it at the… more …

  • SharePoint on balance doesn’t suck after all …

    I knew it …. http://furuknap.blogspot.com/2009/10/sharepoint-sucks-and-heres-why-i-still.html  more …

  • Global Warming, the debate ain’t over!

       Picked up this great video (below).  The guy who introduces it is a bit 70’s, but included in the video is Prof Roy Spencer who’s blog I follow and I highly recommend if you actually want a balanced view of the debate on Global Warming.  My opinion?  I believe that there are far… more …

  • Woo Hoo! Somebody Reads My Blog!!!

      God I’m so happy! Somebody actually reads my blog! Bjorn Furuknap mentioned me in his response to my response to his blog entry … does that make sense …???   Bjorn, you’re a gem! But you’re twisting my words here .. course you’re not lying, and I actually agree with a lot of what you… more …

  • Why SharePoint Doesn’t Suck …

      I’m an avid reader of Bjorn Furuknap’s blog.  I’ve only just been made a SharePoint MVP and I gather he’s not a popular guy amongst the Microsoft SharePoint MVPs, but I happen to think his latest book is really good. It’s emminently readable and full of great examples (if slightly typo-error prone …),… more …

  • SPWebConfigModification Sequence Numbers Do Not Work …

    So I was doing some tidying up on SharePoint stuff we’d done at Ridgian this weekend, and I was trying to finish off a WebApplication feature which adds in all the web.config modifications needed to allow Silverlight to work. In the HttpHandlers section I kept the following being written:        I actually… more …

  • SharePoint “Access Denied” to Read-Only Users

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    Had the bizaarist of errors last two days on SharePoint.  If a user was in a Read only SharePoint group they would receive a ‘Access Denied” message, not all that odd you might say, but in the end it came down to a single custom control (I did not write it …!) which was… 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 …