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Exploring New Zealand’s South Island : Our Campervan Adventure Part 8
In this post, we embarked on the cruise that is the most iconic of all cruises in New Zealand, that of Milford Sound. We also visited a few other places along the way including part of the Kepler Track more …
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The Irony of the EU Referendum
It’s been a weird few days. For many months on Facebook and in other discussions I’ve often defended what I suppose some people might call “the establishment”. The Monarchy, the House of Lords, our voting systems. I have my reasons, which I believe are valid, as to why we should keep these institutions and… more …
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There is always something new to discover … even in Microsoft Word!
I’ve used Word for I don’t know how many years, yet I just found out something I never knew before … that Aa button on the ribbon under the Home tab/Font section … it allows you to select different casings on your sentence or words … really neat … sorry if you knew that… more …
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SharePoint 2013 JavaScript API – SP.Taxonomy.LabelMatchInformation
I’ve been working with the SharePoint 2013 JavaScript recently and had cause to want to fetch the Id of a Term within the Term Store using the Taxonomy namespace. Problem was, the documentation about this particular aspect of the JavaScript API is less than comprehensive to put it politely. In fact it’s pretty mysterious.… more …
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Office 365 Web Part Menu Not Available IE11
I’ve finally managed to get around doing some work on investigating SharePoint 2013 Apps. Yeah, late I know, but that’s the nature of project work and having a full life outside of IT. Still better late than never I say. Anyhow, I noticed this strange behaviour on Office 365. The menu button for the… more …
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Method not found: ‘System.String Microsoft.ServiceBus.Commands.Common.SecurityHelper.CreateServerAdministratorRole(System.String, System.String)’
Received this error today when building out a Workflow Manager installation “Production style” following Spence’s Instructions here. It happened directly I tried to actually build the Workflow Manager Farm. UP until then everything had gone to plan as per Spence’s instructions. A quick “Bing” and I came across this article. Which hinted that was… more …
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“The ‘fld’ start tag on line 1 does not match the end tag of ‘sFld’. Line 1 Position 3037”
This error appeared on a Customer’s Central Admin site recently, basically when trying to do anything useful such as view the Service Applications, change Diagnostic Logging levels, in fact trying to do anything useful with the farm. It also manifested itself in PowerShell and if you viewed the Running Timer Jobs you noticed that… more …
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SharePoint 2013 Sandbox Solutions – Deprecated or Not?
Had this clarification today from Microsoft on the status of Sandbox Solutions: “The only thing that is deprecated is sandboxed code. If you created a sandboxed solution in VisualStudio and set the “Include Assembly In Package” property to false, this is a declarative-only solution and that is not deprecated” So basically provided there is… more …
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Coaching is tough … but rewarding!
About a year ago I took my Level 1 Swimming Coaching qualification, in order to help out at Wyre Forest Swimming Club, as they were a bit short, and I fancied having a go, thinking it might also help my swimming. I’d seen a few people coach and it seemed to me like “how… more …
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