As I mentioned in my last post, I always security trim SharePoint. A very common issue with a security trimmed SharePoint is the "access denied" message that you receive when trying to activate the "Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure" site …
I guess the entire SharePoint world now is aware of the post SP1 "Infrastructure updates" put out by Microsoft recently. Probably the best thing about them are that the flaky "content deployment" feature has had some serious work done on …
Hi all My poor-old cleverworkarounds blog has been sadly neglected lately (and my numbers are reflecting that too dammit). But I have actually been doing a while lot of writing for other SharePoint online publications, namely EndUserSharePoint and SharePoint Magazine. …
It is the typical scenario isn’t it. Site works fine for a week and then is officially launched on a Monday morning and the site breaks after an hour complaining that it cannot connect to the configuration database. Whoa? The …
Office Server Search memory leak and stuck on "crawling" Read more »
This post from the eLumenotion blog is clever and really tickled my sense of humour. He describes a declassified wartime era document called the "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" and the content is pure gold 🙂 "It gives advice on how …
My next post on "Thinking SharePoint" for www.endusersharepoint.com reproduced here. Hi again. Sorry about the delay in continuing with this "how to think SharePoint" series, but in Australia, the month of June is the end of the financial year. I …
Thinking SharePoint Part 2 – The "Unconsciously Incompetent" Ikea Mecca Read more »
Mentally tired this weekend and a headache too, so no work stuff. I promise to get back to SharePoint topics soon though… I just read something amazing that really surprised me. Opeth (the progressive metal band that is target of …
Note: Special thanks to Andrew Jolly for his excellent ideas and feedback I have to say, SharePoint is one of the most misunderstood products that Microsoft have ever released. The misunderstanding extends from executive management who signed the budget approval …
Thinking SharePoint (and listen to your mother!) Read more »
I just posted a new article to the EndUserSharePoint.com as a guest author. There will be a few of us doing this over the next few weeks, and it will be interesting to see how it pans out. The article …
My First EndUserSharePoint.com article just published Read more »
Hi Well, here we are at part 8 in a series of posts dedicated to the topic of SharePoint project failure. Surely after 7 posts, you would think that we are exhausting the various factors that can have a negative …