Setting up a new Office Web Apps Server 2013 farm we ran into an odd error that was the result of a bad configuration setting on the farm. Since the load balanced DNS was not yet configured we decided to setup a single server as if it was a test en ...[Read more]

Doing some research ​into SharePoint 2013 Topologies for a client and I ran across these two Microsoft documents that lay everything out including how to span the virtual machines across your hosts.  Great resources to say the least.  First the Trad ...[Read more]

So, as part of my journey to update my HTC Titan to Windows Phone 7.8 I downloaded the Seven-Eighter app. IT required another toolkit to be installed that pushed firmware to your phone. One of the two was in a RAR format and I didn't have a RAR extr ...[Read more]

I have loved my HTC Titan ever since I got it in November of 2011. I love the 4.7" screen which is easy on my eyes (growing old is for the birds). Switching from an iPhone 3Gs, Windows Phone 7.5 was a wonderful breath of fresh air. Yes, there a ...[Read more]

With the release of SharePoint 2013, and the acquisition of Yammer by Microsoft, the concept of Social Business has exploded…well maybe not exploded, but at least entered the lexicon of the Enterprise. This has been a long slog for SharePoint consul ...[Read more]

If you are a consultant, then you learn to live with working in multiple client environments, and that often means VPNs of every shape, color, and size. Most corporate IT shops are used to dealing with their internal employees and we itinerants ofte ...[Read more]

Recently I decided to run a full-fledged demo environment on my laptop, well almost full-fledged as the full environment is 8 VMs and requires about 45GB of RAM and my new Lenovo laptop only checks in with 32GB of RAM (yeah, first world problems). I ...[Read more]

​I am in the process of getting 5 VMs running on my laptop to run for SP2013.  Normally I work off of my WiFi adaptor so i decided to see about connecting both my WiFi and my wired adaptors to the VPNs.  Tothat end I followed a very simple blog post ...[Read more]

​Today I got a chance to take my first hands-on look at the new Windows 8 tablet from Microsoft the Surface RT.  My expectations were pretty low because most of what I had read had talked about how there was no software for the RT version and that o ...[Read more]

​Today I was joining a Con Call on Lync 2013 (which is awesome BTW) and I noticed that while it was negotiating the connection (I was running on a WiMax HotSpot) I got this hilarious message.  I hope this is in the RTM, and I hope that they have oth ...[Read more]