That Just Happened
For four years, I’ve railed against Android. Everything about it is vile – it’s fragmented, it’s got malware all over the place, buggy, crashy and it’s written in Java. It
Hacking RT - Getting Exciting
More news from the webs this morning that indicate MSFT now seems a bit more interested in the recent hacks of the running kernel in Windows RT which allows you to install and
SharePoint 2013 + PowerPivot/PowerView + Excel Web App
Here’s a funny one for you as identified by my buddy Bryan: What do you get when you cross SharePoint [http://sharepoint.microsoft.com] 2013’s BI Stack (PowerPivot [http://technet.microsoft.
SharePoint 2013 PowerPivot + Dynamic Memory in a VM
This is a ‘quick press’ for something that I just noticed by way of my colleague Bryan. When you are spinning up your SharePoint 2013 environments and getting everything good to go, it
SharePoint 2013 Following Sites
Pro-Tip – when you’re setting up your 2013 farm and the ‘follow sites’ features don’t work between web applications…make sure the web app’s app pool account has SPDataAccess rights (that’
SharePoint 2013 Distributed Cache Service Tuning
When needing to tune the DCS, just starting and stopping the service on servers by way of CA is a swift ticket to a completely borked farm. ProTip – see article here [http://technet.
SharePoint 2013 My Site Publishing
Quick protip – if you are publishing My Sites and need to change the URL (but not the actual location – think AAMs or TMG publishing) – the only way to do it from what I
Been A Bit...
I’ve been building a private cloud for a large company and it has been going very well. Lots of great challenges. The downside to that, I haven’t had any time to
Part 6 - Hyper-V
In Windows 2012, the concept of the private cloud is finally at your fingertips. Long gone are the half baked, half delivered features of Windows Server that promised ‘virtualization.’ VMWare had Microsoft and
Part 5.4 - Cluster Shared Volumes
Sorry about the delay in continuing my series. In the time I was away, I attended TechEd (always an impressive show) and got wrapped up with two different clients. All good things but
Part 5.3 - Clustering and Hyper-V Awesomeness
One of the challenges I can already see with all that is new and good when building out my private cloud is – which amazing clustering storage ‘thing’ should I use to enable my
Part 5.2 Cluster Aware Patching
One of my particular annoyances and pain points with Windows is patching. Oh how I hate patching. It happens at least one Tuesday of every month and while WS8 does improve greatly on