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  • Trump and Women

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    One thing I have learnt from turning into a history nerd is that there are very few people, if any in history who have no redeeming features or whose every decision is a wrong one, or whose every decision has a negative consequence. more …

    Trump and Women

  • The XSLT and SharePoint and HttpVDir

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    Some might say both these technologies come from Old Nick himself , but I’m afraid I’ll have to disagree right there.  XSLT has always been one of my all time favourite technologies, it’s uses are endless and there are many places in SharePoint where it’s a definite bonus to know XSLT to a good… more …

  • Page Layout and Text Layout Buttons Disabled on Ribbon

    It’s been a while since I’ve blogged, just so much go on with work and other stuff, that I just haven’t gotten around to it, so I’m spending an evening catching up with some content I’ve had on sticky notes on my desktop.  So this first post is a bit vague to be honest,… more …

  • Windows Azure Connect Status is “Disconnected”

    I installed Windows Azure Connect ther other day on my laptop from our Windows Azure Dashboard.  This allows you to set up a virtual network across the internet using IPv6.  No more VPN!  It’s pretty awesome.  When it works … I kept having issues with the “disconnected” status.  I could connect using my Virgin… more …

  • My Great North Swim …

    So Sunday 24th June 2012 was the day for my turn at the Great North Swim in aid of the RNLI. If you’ve followed my previous blog entries on my training here and here, you’ll know I’ve been swimming with Wyre Forest Swimming Club for the past year or so, getting myself into physical… more …

  • Debugging SharePoint 2010 – A Neat Trick

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    Learnt something yesterday I never knew.  This is from my good friend Andy Maggs a co-worker at Ridgian. Despite the great tools in Visual Studio these days for working with SharePoint there are still occasions when you need to manually connect to the w3wp.exe processes which run in IIS in order to debug.  The trouble… more …

  • Great North Swim Preparation

    So big step forward today in my preparation for the Great North Swim, I donned my wet suit which I’d hired from here and which I had tried on at the weekend (tight but not enough to make me scream … just) and jumped into Top Barn Lake courtesy of these guys.  Here’s an aerial… more …

  • Kerberos Authentication Not Working

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    Well there could be a large number of reasons why your Kerberos Delegation may not appear to be working, but I’m just going to quickly cover one reason here and it’s to do with DNS names.  I had this issue today and it took me a while to drag it out of my memory,… more …

  • Namespace prefix ‘xsd’ is not defined

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    During the process of developing our new internal Intranet at Ridgian, we’re using gratuitous amounts of HTML 5 and CSS 3.0 in our design.  During testing however, we came across this error when attempting to save List Item or Document Properties: “Namespace prefix ‘xsd’ is not defined” It only appeared to happen on a form… more …

  • New-SPEnterpriseSearchExtendedConnectorProperty “The term is not recognized as a cmdlet, function”.

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    I was configuring FAST search today using PowerShell, as I want to control database names and topology from the word go, and came across a strange issue when I got to adapting the script from this great post for my circumstances.  I got to the cmdlet “New-SPEnterpriseSearchExtendedConnectorProperty” and PowerShellgave the error “The term is not recognized… 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 …