May28
A few days ago Apple passed Microsoft in market capitalization (see NY Times article here). This is slightly odd because Microsoft makes far more in profit ($14.6B on $58.4B in revenue for Microsoft and $5.7B on $42.6B), and has better cash reserves ($39.7B to $23.1B). So, why is Apple passing up Microsoft?
In my mind it is that Apple has focused like a laser on selling products that people ...
Posted by David Broussard on
Friday, 28 May 2010 11:42.
May21
Mark Arend has posted the clearinghouse of Microsoft SharePoint hands on resources. You can find it here.
The best one (in my humble opinion) is the Demo Server. Its an 18GB (yes GigaByte) zip file with a Hyper-V VPC in it that is preconfigured with SPS2010, Office 2010, VS2010, SPD 2010, and SharePoint Workspace. The best part is that it has a complete AD instance on it as well and profile...
Posted by David Broussard on
Friday, 21 May 2010 04:00.
May21
Over a year ago I got into a discussion with some other Catapult people on the idea of should an Intranet have one web app, or be split into many web apps. Let us take as an example a hypothetical company with some basic requirements for an Intranet. They plan on having three main areas of the site. One is a publishing area, a second will be departmental collaboration sites, and the third w...
Posted by David Broussard on
Friday, 21 May 2010 11:51.
May12
One of the cool new features of SharePoint 2010 is that now, when an error is thrown, instead of just getting a bland error screen and you having to pour through voluminous error logs looking for when it might have occurred, the use is given a correlation ID (a GUID of course) that they can give to the IT pro to look in the log files to find the exact error to make resolution a bit easier.
It ...
Posted by David Broussard on
Wednesday, 12 May 2010 09:49.
May7
Late last year (after the beta 2 bits came out, I attempted to install SPS2010 onto a Win7 box. I was struggling with not wanting to give up the power management features of Win7 (or Vista) and the fact that MS Virtualization only runs 32 bit hosts. Now, I could dual boot into Server 2K8R2 (and my laptop is configured that way), but that is also a hassle if I am in the middle of something. I...
Posted by David Broussard on
Friday, 7 May 2010 12:43.