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Where Do My Taxes Go?
Visited my tax page on gov.uk today and saw how my taxes are being spent. I have to say that looking at it as objectively as possible, that’s not a bad way to spend the money … more …
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Printers are Evil …
Like many of you in techie land, I hate Printers. Today I was at Wyre Forest Swimming Club Open meet and the whole event was brought to a stand still for 30 mins by one lousy ancient printer!!! In celebration of proof that Printers Are Evil … I found this post which, whilst humerous,… more …
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Terra Nova
I’m liking Terra Nova. I know, compared to Outcasts, it’s more … ‘shiny’. It’s also more entertaining, got more action, better story lines, less soul searching, less navel watching and better looking women … I know. I’m shallow, and easily pleased by the moguls at Hollywood, the sort of viewer they dream of. You know what.… more …
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SetSectionLinks() and “Object reference not set to an instance of an object”
OK, this was driving me insane … About 4 weeks ago I noticed on my development SharePoint farm, that whatever list I went to, whenever I tried to view the List Settings I would get the error below: NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.] Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages.ListEditPage.SetSectionLinks() +426 Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages.ListEditPage.OnLoad(EventArgs e)… more …
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An exception occurred when trying to issue security token:
OK, I bet your bottom dollar at one time or another you’ve had this error in your ULS Log when you get an “unknown error” on your SharePoint farm: An exception occurred when trying to issue security token: The server was unable to process the request due to an internal error. For more information… more …
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Configuring Kerberos for SharePoint. A Couple of Tips …
I’ve been back in the Kerberos Configuration Groove lately. Yes that, multi-step process which foxes so many people. If you have to engage in this process then I recommend a few things: If you’re not already aware of it I strongly recommend that you download a copy of the “Configure Kerberos Authentication for SharePoint… more …
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A Quantum Of Computing is Online …
I went up to Aberdeen in September to present to a BCS meeting “Quantum of Computing” talk, all about Quantum Computing. It seemed ot go down pretty well, and they filmed it. I was informed by Norman Bain who runs the BCS up there that the video has now been put online, so here’s the link… more …
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“User Does Not Have Permission to Perform this Action”
One of those really annoying messages which gives little or no hint as to what user is having the issue. I saw this when using ULS Viewer to check for other issues I was having with a SharePoint farm. IOWSTIMER.EXE (0x09A8) 0x0C20 SharePoint Foundation Database 5586 Critical Unknown SQL Exception 297 occurred. Additional error… more …
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Powershell for PowerPivot Service Application …
Powershell for PowerPivot seems to be a bit of a mish-mash really. There appears to be no way to provision a PowerPivot Service Application using Powershell which doesn’t use the Default Application Pool, and as far as I can see there appears to be no way to change the name of the Service Application… more …
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PowerPivot and Reporting Services 2008 R2 SP1 Foible …
I made a bit of a mistake this week on a particular deployment I was involved in but it threw up a problem that if you do a single server deployment or a deployment of a certain topolgy you might run up against. I installed Reporting Services 2008 R2 on a server and configured… more …
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