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Project Conference 2012 video presentations now available #PS2010 #ProjectServer #MSProject #in

Over the past couple of months, you may have seen posts about my presentation at the Project Conference held in Phoenix, AZ. Now that some time has passed, Microsoft has uploaded all the video presentations to the Project channel on Microsoft Showcase...

Published Thu, May 17 2012 3:21 AM by SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans

Filed under: Work, Project Server 2010, Project Conference 2012, Presentation

Excel formulas not auto calculating but F9 still works #in

As ever, when you work in IT you become the go to guy / gal for friends, family etc… So today, whilst working on my TechEd Europe 2012 presentation, my girlfriend rang up, asked if I knew Excel and promptly forward me to a manager for a quick chat. The...

Published Mon, May 14 2012 11:14 AM by SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans

Filed under: Work, Microsoft Excel

Useful virtualisation links #SP2010 #SharePoint #in

Once again, writing tenders and needed to provide evidence of supported platforms for virtualisation: Virtualisation support and licencing (SharePoint Server 2010) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607936.aspx Supported virtualisation platforms...

Published Thu, May 10 2012 5:11 AM by SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans

Filed under: Work, SharePoint 2010, Virtualisation

Create a New MySite Host Site

On a recent project we created a small SharePoint development farm using AutoSPInstaller. The farm created perfectly, the Portal was working, UPS was working, mysites were working, all was good. The My Site host Web app had been created on port 8080 with...

Published Wed, May 09 2012 11:54 AM by SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans

Filed under: SharePoint 2010, administration

Office 365 / #SharePoint 2010 Accessibility Compliance Links #O365 #SP2010 #in

As part of responding to a tender, I needed to do some research on SharePoint 2010 / Office 365 and accessibility compliance. Here are some links that I found… Office 365 / SharePoint 2010 – Accessibility Compliance http://blogs.technet.com/b/whymicrosoft...

Published Mon, May 07 2012 9:00 AM by SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans

Filed under: Work, SharePoint 2010, Office 365, Accessibility

Using the “Inactivate Tasks” functionality

Inactivate task is a new feature for EPM2010; this feature enables the project manager to set certain tasks to inactive rather than deleting the tasks. This functionality is also useful for performing what-if analysis. The following paragraph from Microsoft...

Published Fri, May 04 2012 11:23 AM by SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans

Filed under: Project Server 2010, PS2010, Project 2010

Updating resource rates

Due to possible differences in calendars between EPM (Enterprise Calendars) and Microsoft Project (local project settings), resource rate changes using an effective from date may not be applied from the beginning of the working day. At one client in particular...

Published Fri, May 04 2012 11:10 AM by SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans

Filed under: Work, Project Server

#SP2010 #PS2010 Performance Links

Some useful links for Capacity Performance and Management SharePoint 2010 Capacity management and sizing overview http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff758647.aspx Software boundaries and limits http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787...

Published Fri, May 04 2012 8:19 AM by SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans

Filed under: Work, Project Server 2010, SharePoint 2010, Performance

How to break a SharePoint list in less than minutes

My client asked me today the limitation of Sharepoint 2010 in terms of number of words per column types, lines and attachments. I found the answers in Microsoft website and also this blog http://sharepointgadget.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/limits-in-sharepoint...

Published Wed, May 02 2012 8:48 AM by SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans

Filed under: SharePoint 2010, error, Bug, Lists

SharePoint and fun with SP1

Recently I was asked to take a look at a SharePoint 2010 system that was having a few problems. Looking at the patching status it was still running SPS2010 RTM, so the 1st job was to at least get SP1 installed, then the latest CUs on top, and so the fun...

Published Tue, May 01 2012 4:01 PM by SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans

Filed under: SharePoint, SP2010, Hotfix, Service Pack, Service Pack 1, CU

SSRS Web Part Performance 2008 R2 vs. 2012 Initial Results #SharePoint #SP2010 #in

On one of my client projects, we heavily use SQL Server Reporting Services in SharePoint integration mode. The benefits in comparison to Native mode are primarily around the RS SharePoint Add-in which allows us to use query string (URL) filter web parts...

Published Mon, Apr 30 2012 1:11 PM by SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans

Filed under: Work, Project Server 2010, SharePoint 2010, Performance, SSRS 2008 R2, SSRS 2012

#SP2010 web part rounded corners #SharePoint #PS2010 #ProjectServer #MSProject #in

At one of my clients I was asked to document how we achieved rounded corners on web parts. So as a result, I figured a blog post about it would be useful. Now when I first implemented this (almost 2 years ago!) as the 2010 product RTM’d, I based it on...

Published Wed, Apr 25 2012 11:49 AM by SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans

Filed under: Work, JavaScript, Project Server 2010, SharePoint 2010, JQuery, css, Web Part, Rounded Corners

Issue Downloading SharePoint 2010 Prerequisite Installer Files

Strictly speaking this quick article doesn’t really have anything to with SharePoint, but hopefully it might help-out someone out there in SharePoint land. One of the projects I’m currently working on is a 2010 Farm build, we are just getting the media...

Published Wed, Apr 25 2012 11:47 AM by SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans

Filed under: Project Server 2010, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint, PowerShell, SP2010, Project Server

Last day at the International Conference in London

The #ISCLondon is a 3 days intense knowledge sharing, specially on the third day it feels like the end of a marathon, may be something to do with the late party last night too! Today on that last day a few delegate I spoke to had the same feelings: it...

Published Wed, Apr 25 2012 11:11 AM by SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans

Filed under: SharePoint, visio, conference, ISCLondon, Search, charts, CQWP

More ISCLondon updates and Minority report in SharePoint

Today is the second day of the International Sharepoint Conference in London where something like 80% of the Speakers are from the US. I have been asked if I could blog live on the event by Matt Hugues (@mattmoo2) on his blog and we are a few doing this...

Published Tue, Apr 24 2012 11:20 AM by SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans

Filed under: SharePoint, ISCLondon, KINECT, fun

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