Well, here I go – how to natively (or naively at this point – I just started this) manipulate Sharepoint Lists from SQL Server. I did it! It is not using a linked server (I will get to the bottom of that though) but using an OPENROWSET works. This means that the user needs to […]
When you integrate a site onto its final server – things with windows get hairy. Here are some notes to get out of trouble seeing a 401 for anonymous user? Are your permissions for IUSR set to read, write, execute (ref)? This is for anonymous user. For a dynamic user, then you have to add […]
There are really 2 concepts here which is the reason for the long title. First, adding jQuery to Report Services means hacking 2 install files (.aspx files) of Report Services. If you don’t have someone who has access to the server that is hosting the web pages, it might be hard to get this done. […]
Overview: SourceTree is a visual client to a git-style source control repository for Windows (in this example) and Mac-OS-X. Gitorious is a wiki/git-style web based file browser and repo setup system like github – except YOU run it. It is delivered as standalone computer (Virtual Machine) that hosts a git server and wiki all in […]
I have gotten a lot of issues of tinkering with IIS solved before – but never have I written anything down and I have never installed it from scratch. Now, I have to do these steps again so this time I will write them down for myself and others. I will not be using the […]
To allow macs to see other drives other than local ones (see link below), you basically edit a setting on your mac create a sparse bundle using some unix commands – make it at least 3 times larger than your expected data to be backed up MOVE that sparse bundle to a remote machine and […]
Macs are not perfect even though one’s productivity is much higher with one. When things go wrong – they can sometimes really go wrong. One customer had issues with a critical branding font that installs fine on everyone else’s Macbook but not theirs. I now know more about fonts that I ever wanted to know […]
The service providers and even the Applestore do not know the simple art of setting up an email account NOT as an iCloud account or provider account. It is simple to do knowing a few basics of what you can do. A lot of us have our own domain names or preferred email accounts that […]
One customer has been set up with Paragon backup software for a Windows 2008 SBS installation. Whis is frustrating about SBS is that the Server Backup tool taunts you to use it but MS states that it is not meant to be used on anything except R2 2008. It was a nightmare but we did […]
A guaranteed way to make exe’s with parameters kick off is aa) don’t run a scheduled task on a network share – if you get 0x1 as a result code .. copy everything to a local drive??? (latest update). Worked for me but is 2X work when source code changes. aa1) UPDATE: If running bat […]