Bamboo Guru Blogs

Claims Authentication Overview Reference

2010-02-19T16:06:42Z

Body: Time to get your reading on. Claims is going to be a HUGE piece of the SharePoint 2010 offering. Thanks to Wictor Wilen (@wictor) for the twitter post on this. List of topics: Introduction to Claims Claims Based Architectures Claims Based Single Read More......(read more)

DisableLoopbackCheck? Lets do it the right way

2010-02-12T03:29:45Z

Body: Way too much debate out in Twitterville and through other folks that are just flat out wrong. Why wrong? Well in a test lab environment I have no problem with this but folks tend to get lazy and that is where you run risks in your production environment Read More......(read more)

Create you AD Server Instance on Windows R2 Core

2010-02-12T02:06:24Z

Body: So as most of you know im a pretty big advocate on Virtualizing SharePoint and do a lot of talks on lab setups and such. Way back when Server Core came out I gave it a spin but found a lot of the toolsets to be lacking and frustrating. Windows Server Read More......(read more)

Where did Fox go

2010-01-12T20:48:03Z

Body: Hi Folks, to answer the question in the title of this post...nowhere really…still hammering away at SharePoint and continuing to drive community efforts. Back in November I did make a job change and left my buddies at B&R Business Solutions Read More......(read more)

Office Activation Issue/Workaround

2010-01-04T06:05:05Z

Body: I have been having issues since I tried to activate my copy of Office 2010 using KMS or MAK. I noticed this evening that my copy was going to go belly up in 5 days so I found a method via script to overcome this. If your having a similar problem Read More......(read more)

Congratulations to Mirjam van Olst on MVP Award

2010-01-03T17:11:36Z

Body: I just found out that Mirjam just became a SharePoint MVP. Mirjam hails from Holland and is also one of the first MCM graduates (Class 2 I believe) Excellent technician and someone well deserving of this community award. Congrats Mirjam!!! (its Read More......(read more)

Scrolling Issue on 2010 Blog Site and my Whereabouts :)

2010-01-03T16:53:59Z

Body: Since migrating my site from 2007 to 2010 I have received a few inquiries as to shy the vertical scrolling bar seems to just disappear. This is obviously a bug but where does it stem? Still undecided. While viewing the blog page in IE8 you will Read More......(read more)

Upgrade 2010: Watch Out For...

2009-12-26T22:32:20Z

Body: If you upgrade to SharePoint 2010, watch out for SharePoint Designer modifications to LisftForm views. It is very common to convert a standard ListForm web part into a DataView in order to "tweak" it a bit. The result is a XSL transformation Read More......(read more)

SharePoint Information Architecture Guide

2009-12-15T15:29:03Z

After much thought, I have decided to make my SharePoint Information Architecture Guide available for sale online instead working with a publisher. I really did put a lot of thought to this and have learned that others have had great success. This guide Read More......(read more)

ClearContext v5 for Outlook Released

2009-12-10T15:36:01Z

Just wanted to let everyone know that ClearContext has released v5 today. This is a fantastic add-in for Microsoft Outlook that allows you to easily file and manage messages, etc. I have been using this product for a long time and absolutely love it. Read More......(read more)

Department of random things: allowInsecureTransport

2009-12-04T22:09:08Z

Body: If you get a web part error when you try to display the 2010 search results page, try installing this hotfix to .NET 3.0: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976462 That fix enables the allowInsecureTransport attribute which is used in the 2010 Search Read More......(read more)

SharePoint 2010

2009-12-01T13:52:24Z

Body: My experience with Beta software is: it's best to wait as long as possible, but not longer. For me, that meant I could pretty much ignore SharePoint 2010 until today. So after about six false starts, I've got it up and running on my (now Read More......(read more)

Reporting in SharePoint

2009-11-08T11:43:15Z

Body: Here's a recent email thread that summarizes my thoughts on Reporting in SharePoint. ------------------- Hi Jeff, I have a client that wants to do list reporting. Before I dig and do a bunch of research and custom building, I was wondering if Read More......(read more)

Live Webinar: The Secrets to Successfully Migrating Exchange Public Folders to SharePoint

2009-11-03T11:46:04Z

My friends at Colligo are hosting another free webinar titled “The Secrets to Successfully Migrating Exchange Public Folders to SharePoint”. See below for more information… Register Today! Live Webinar: The Secrets to Successfully Migrating Read More......(read more)

Content Content Everywhere with SharePoint 2010

2009-10-29T13:37:39Z

Body: With the lifting of the NDA surrounding SharePoint 2010, content is pouring out of the cracks and information about this product in my eyes far overshadows the early information that we (MVP’s and MSFT) were pushing out in previous versions. The Read More......(read more)