Dave Mc's Blog

  • 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 …

  • “Pub is Undefined” Error on Custom Page

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    When I create a custom page for SharePoint or indeed any custom branding, I like the minimalist approach.  That is a strip out all the OOTB stuff and go back to the minimum I can get away with.  Only this time when I stripped this particular page/masterpage back I ended up with the javascript… more …

  • Download SharePoint 2010 Solutions

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    I was working on a migration between two SharePoint 2010 farms yesterday and I couldn’t locate the WSP files for some of the solutions actually on the file system, so I wanted to download the WSP files from the source farm to upload into the target farm.  Now there is no way to actually… more …

  • Great North Swim -Training Update

    Well my training for the Great North Swim is progressing. I’ve been attending Masters classes at Wyre Forest Swimming Club three times a week, and I’m experiencing a little of what my son goes through when he trains for his County and Regional competitions.  I do an hour on Wednesday which is what my coach calls… more …

  • Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming

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    Picked up this interesting article on the Wall Street Journal I’m sure we’ll see more of this.  A good thing too. If you’ve read my blog before, unlikely I know … I fully accept that the climate changes and is warming, the evidence is pretty clear.  What I don’t accept is the allegation that… more …

  • Swimming 1 Mile for Charity

    I’ve entered for the Great North Swim here in the UK which involves swimming 1 mile in Open Water across Lake Windermere. I’m doing it for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) who are a charity who run all of the countries Life Boats around the UK coastline. I’d really appreciate any sponsorship you… 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 …