Archive forJanuary, 2008

Did you know the BDC only queries the data?

That it actually does NOT import everything but just pulls the data in on demand? You probably just answered yes you already knew that. So why am I playing the role of Captain Obvious? Well, because possibly if the only thing you ever learned about the BDC prior to this was post was from me […]

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Weird error due to permissions

So it is 1:30 am and I am sitting here trying to hodge-podge a medium server farm together to test a Kerberos issue/theory. My environment is a Windows Server 2008 box as my central admin, WFE, Excel, and query server (physical hardware), Windows Server 2003 VPC as the Index server, and a another VPC (running […]

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Upcoming Speaking and Training

1/14 –Professional SharePoint Administration – Boston, MA. Come and spend 4 days with me hanging out in Boston. How much more fun can it be? I even promise to teach you some SharePoint in the process. Though former students will also tell you that dumb jokes will be plentiful also. 😉 1/28 – Professional SharePoint […]

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I passed Configuring Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 070-630

I know, I am so cool. LOL Had some students in my Professional SharePoint Administration class ask about how well the class would prepare them for the exam. I was like “Hell, I don’t know?”. So I went and took the exam the next day to find out. I would have to say the exam […]

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Running – Server 2008, SQL 2008, MOSS 2007 SP1

One of the joys of owning your own business is every year in December you decide that you should buy some new business toys. Kind of like a second Christmas. One of the new toys we bought this year was a new server. It is an AMD X2 6000 (3 GHz) with 4 GB of […]

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