HOME LAB RENEWAL - PT 5
Now that my two servers are built, it's time to build the ultimate VM - my daily non-work driver. There's something special about this VM though: This will not do. In fact, it
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Home Lab Renewal - Pt 1
About two years ago, I purchased myself a pretty sweet deal on Ebay: Dell RX730xd 2 x 2.5Ghz Xeon Gold 128 GB ECC RAM 28 TB RAW 2 x 1oGB Ethernet 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 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’
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
Tools for 2012
Given that these cloud things all seem to be coming together, I find myself looking at specific scenarios whereby me, myself and my family can live more fruitfully in the cloud. Here are
2012 - The Year of the Cloud
It may come as no surprise to anyone that I do in fact, heart the cloud. Having spent the passed few weeks reading the most excellent book ‘The Big Switch’ and generally reveling
More Thoughts on Messaging
So my original impression of iMessage turned out to be incorrect – kind of. If you have an iPhone, you know by now that iMessage and the SMS app are in fact, built in.
Making WP7 Gain Faster
WP7 is gaining impressively on the competition. Microsoft is clearly out for 2nd place in a three way race (Apple, MSFT, Google) for the time being while mopping the floor in the enterprise
Where the Cloud Meets the Road
It occurs to me that a lot of gesticulation has been going on about the cloud over the past few quarters: is it good for business, is it secure, will it really reduce
The Coming Multi-Cloud
Okay, the name ‘multi-cloud’ probably won’t pass muster with the marketing types, but I am very excited to posit on the near future of what a combined public/private cloud will look
SharePoint 2010 and the Site Directory
I’m working with a client right now that has a large SharePoint 2010 deployment (8 web apps, couple hundred site collections (not counting My Sites), a couple thousand sites and about 80,