Author Archives:

Office 365 and Passwords

Posted on August 8, 2011

Today I learned that the new password policy for Office 365 specifies an upper limit on password length. Yes, that’s right folks, some special person decided that passwords for Office 365, and therefore Exchange Online, should be 8-16 characters in … Continue reading →

Posted in Security, WTF | Leave a comment

SPEasy Setup Scripts: Gotcha!

Posted on July 19, 2011

A workmate of mine just recently used the SharePoint Easy Setup Script to setup a Windows 7 machine for SharePoint development. Upon trying to browse newly created Web Applications with host headers he was prompted to authenticate but these authentication … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, SharePoint | Leave a comment

Serving HTML5 Video from SharePoint Document Libraries

Posted on July 19, 2011

So you want to serve up some video content and use the <video> tag? Cool! You want to do it using video files you have in SharePoint? Cool, that shouldn’t be too hard. Unfortunately out of the box SharePoint 2010 … Continue reading →

Posted in Configuration, Development, HTML5, SharePoint | 3 Comments

Hey where is my <video>?

Posted on July 11, 2011

So, I’m running Windows Server 2008 R2 aka Win7 Server. I installed IE 9 but none of the videos on the Video Format Support Page are playing? WTF? That page is from Microsoft to show off the HTML5 support in … Continue reading →

Posted in HTML5, WTF | Leave a comment

SharePoint 2010 SP1 is out, but wait there’s more!

Posted on June 29, 2011

So SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 is available for Download. The SharePoint team are also shipping a June 2011 CU with a bunch of fixes that didn’t get into SP1 and it’s “ strongly recommended to install the June 2011 … Continue reading →

Posted in Maintenance, Service Pack, SharePoint, SP1 | Leave a comment

Running SharePoint Timer Jobs from PowerShell

Posted on June 17, 2011

From time to time you need to execute a given SharePoint timer job now. Sure you could go into Central Admin, find it and run it manually, but where’s the fun in that? Plus sometimes you need to automate this, … Continue reading →

Posted in PowerShell, SharePoint, Timer Jobs | 2 Comments

Browser Caps for WP7 as a Mobile Device

Posted on June 13, 2011

So, people are using the Windows Phone 7 browser now, I’m one of them; I love my WP7. Anyway OOTB SharePoint doesn’t recognise the this as a mobile browser. So I had to edit the compat.browser file ( %WebAppRootDir%\ App_Browsers\compat.browser … Continue reading →

Posted in Deployment, SharePoint | Leave a comment

Disable Mobile Redirection for a Web Application via PowerShell

Posted on June 13, 2011

So I’ve got a SharePoint site that is optimised for viewing in mobile browsers, problem is that OOTB SharePoint is trying to show the fugly “mobile view”. Now Waldek has a post about just this problem, in my case I’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Deployment, Development, PowerShell, SharePoint | 4 Comments

Provisioning Web Parts via the AllUsersWebParts element

Posted on May 30, 2011

Right, so you want to have a Page Layout that contains some web parts when a user creates a page using that layout. Cool, no problem, use an <AllUsersWebParts> element just like Andrew Connell blogs about problem is, if you … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, SharePoint | Leave a comment

Boo-yah! @nzben to join Intergen

Posted on May 10, 2011

So, according to both Twitter and the NBR, Ben Gracewood, aka @nzben aka  that guy with the cool toys from Breakfast, is joining Intergen. I’m pretty stoked that he’ll be joining the team here and hope to lean a lot … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Intergen, News | Leave a comment