Dave Mc's Blog

  • Two-Way User Profile Synchronisation …

    Let’s be honest now.  Two-way User Profile Synchronisation in SharePoint 2010 isn’t actually two way. It’s one-way or the other.  Either stuff comes from the external store e.g AD OR the stuff come out of SharePoint into the external store. It don’t detect the latest change and sync accordingly. You try it.  Set up… more …

  • SharePoint and NLB …

    Did my first real foray today into the world of NLB with SharePoint. I’ve worked with plenty of farms which had it configured, but due to circumstances with which I won’t bore you, I was the guy setting up the NLB today. All in all it seemed pretty easy.  Check out the Combined Knowledge… more …

  • Blimey … “Yes to AV” trounced …

    I have to say I was pretty shocked by the result on the AV vote.  Relieved, cheered, but shocked.  In my previous post on this subject I said I thought that “Yes to AV” would win, not that I wanted it to. Nearly 68% of people who voted, which was about 40% of the eligible population… more …

  • We’ve a grass snake in our pond!

    Walked out to look at our rather messy second pond today – only to be surprised by seeing a Grass Snake in the water.  I thought they were green and small, but having checked, they can grow to 5 feet in length. This blighter is about 2.5ft to 3ft in length and is olive… more …

  • Why I loved the Royal Wedding …

    Today’s royal wedding for me was a bit of a surprise.  I am unashamedly a monarchist and a proud Englishman, but weddings to me are normally always overdone. When I got married it was in a registry office and afterwards we went down the pub … Grateful though I was for the extra bank… more …

  • Getting the Full Logging Message in SQL Server …

    I needed to help a customer today to read some SQL Server Job History messages, but we were getting that awful 1024 truncation going on.  Happily there is a great fix for this here on SQL Server Central.  Basically you have to tell SQL Server to log to a table in msdb, then the… more …

  • European SharePoint Best Practices Conference

    I attended the European SharePoint Best Practice Conference this week.  I delivered my Visio Services session, which got a good reception and attended a number of other great sessions including ones on PowerPivot, Claims, Records Management and Multi-Tennancy. All-in-all it was a fantastic event at which they treated the speakers and attendees so well.  Nothing… more …

  • I’m Paying for Spotify Unlimited …

    I’ve decided to support Spotify and pay my £4.99 a month for unlimited music.  Whatever you think of the music industry itself, the bottom line is that somewhere, somehow somebody needs to be paid for making music.  There are the recording studios, the production staff, the design artists not forgetting the musicians themselves.  If we… more …

  • Why I Will Not Support the “Yes to AV” Campaign …

    I’ve visited http://www.yestofairervotes.org today to check out why I apparently should vote ‘Yes’ to a supposedly fairer system of votes.  Whilst I agree on the face of it, AV looks attractive to voters, I don’t actually think that it is fairer than the current First Past the Post (FPTP) system.  My reason comes down… 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 …