Guru sounds nice. Not sure I believe it.  But I'll take it.  Nice to be recognized anyways.  Nobody is an 'Expert' in SharePoint (Guru, or otherwise) but if someone wants to pin that to me, I'll wear it.  Got a free T-Shirt, which one should never t ...[Read More]

This was an interesting discovery, as I try not to work after 10pm (when my automated, scripted Site Collections are due to run).   When I tried to save a document to a document library, I was greeted with the following two issues:   When sa ...[Read More]

Stumbled across this today via Google Images and I couldn't resist posting it on here. One frustration I have (like many others) is the insistence with many customers (particularly in SMB) who buy technology before mapping out what they are trying ...[Read More]

We ran into this little gem today at a client site (running SBS 2008) – thanks for the detail Avi. The client called, explaining how their Outlook clients were unable to connect to the server (Outlook stated it was 'Trying to connect' in the botto ...[Read More]

Gents, I ran into this the other day. A server (VM to be exact, RG Exchange) was trying to apply some new Security Patches on boot but it kept saying "Applying updates, 3 of 3, 0% complete". This went on for an hour (and who knows how ...[Read More]

Ok, it's a web world now, but this old tip still crops up enough to warrant sharing.   If you want to change an icon on your desktop to something sexier, you have a number of choices. You can of course download a new one (thanks Steve, for poin ...[Read More]

This is a great resource and I know I'll have trouble finding it later, so I'm bookmarking it here on my blog: http://blog-sharepoint.blogspot.com/2009/05/data-view-conditional-formatting-using.html   In particular, it was useful today for me ...[Read More]

This is an old post that I'm refreshing as I noticed it was appearing in search results (but on my old blog, I got TONNES of people saying this helped them, so I'm hoping to do that again by bumping this to the top...)   Ok, this one took a whil ...[Read More]

Although there are a number of techniques and places to look to clear disk space on a Windows server, including pruning SQL transaction logs, removing HIBERFIL.SYS, moving the pagefile to another drive, one of the most effective I've found has bee ...[Read More]

Here is an interesting one but quite repeatable…  I've run into this situation now in two totally different Exchange 2007 environments (the source). While we are able to successfully deliver messages to most customer domains, in these two instance ...[Read More]