Today, I was working through some of my old files on my Windows 10 laptop and found a HTML printout (essentially a saved HTML page with the *.MHTML extension). I wanted to review the contents of the document, so I double-clicked it, expecting that it would open in the Microsoft Edge browser. This is what […]

If you’re installing the SharePoint 2016 Preview while following the instructions in the SharePoint Server 2016 Preview Quick Start Guide, note that the key in the guide will NOT work (RTNGH-MQRV6-M3BWQ-DB748-VH7DM). You should instead use the key shown on the Download Center page, where you downloaded the SharePoint Server 2016 Preview bits (NQTMW-K63MQ-39G6H-B2CH9-FRDWJ) — Ignore […]

Most content sources in SharePoint 2013 are crawled exactly the same way they were in SharePoint 2010 (Full and Incremental Crawls). If you happen to be crawling a SharePoint Site, however, there is a new crawl type called “Continuous Crawls”. Enabling this functionality is pretty straightforward – simply click the radio button for “Enable Continuous […]

This last weekend, I had the privilege of presenting at SharePoint Saturday Austin. The topic of my presentation was “Zero to High Availability in 60 minutes (Building a SQL 2012 HA Solution for SharePoint in under an hour)”. First Things First The demo and presentation took every bit of an hour, but we made it […]

SharePoint 2013 provides the usage and health data collection services (this functionality is also present in SharePoint 2010). Using these services, you can combine a series of SQL queries and stored procedures to view, examine, and report on SharePoint metrics from within SQL. Whoa – hold up for a minute! You’re not supposed to even […]

So, I was working with a client’s farm this evening. They had recently asked me to install Office Web Apps to the farm, and I had obliged, verifying that the Word Viewer had worked without issue. Yesterday, I get a call from the same client. He states that some of his documents won’t render in […]

Nope – I’m not. My GUIO intranet BPOS site is being converted to Office 365 this weekend. I can finally get busy on an internet-facing GUIO site as part of my E1 Office 365 Site. As part of this transition, Microsoft asks that some preparations be made in advance – one of these preparations is […]

Updating SharePoint to the latest Service Pack or Cumulative Update (or both) can be challenging. Your organization may have something as simple as a SharePoint Foundation install, or something as complex as a SharePoint Server + Project Server install. There are several guides out there for installing the patches, but I’ve always found it to […]

Update: The battle isn’t over yet, but Congress seems to be having some indigestion with SOPA and PIPA per USA Today… I have been in the technology industry for more years than I care to count – I remember life before the Internet… I remember things like having to make long distance phone calls to […]

Here we go again! I am packing my bags to go to the 2011 Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Anaheim, California (#SPC11, if you want to follow along on Twitter). For the last week, there’s been a flurry of activity – phone calls, printing confirmations, and wrapping up items at my client site so that there […]