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I recently came across an issue with customized master pages.Updates were made to the master page within the Visual Studio solution, compiled into a wsp, and deployed.   This seems to be a common problem if the SharePoint administrators allow for SharePoint Designer customizations, or even by developers downloading master pages from the gallery, making […]

Microsoft has truly outdone themselves when it comes to SharePoint 2010’s documentation, especially so close to the release of the product. Their whitepaper on configuring Kerberos is great guide that includes setup of not only the SharePoint Web Applications but OLTP, Reporting Services, Analysis Services, EWS, and more. One caveat to the guide is that […]

My blog site is moving into a personal site at a new location: http://blog.schertz.name. All current articles will stay online here, but any new content from me will be posted over at the new location. I encourage my readers to continue checking the PointBridge blog site as the UC team will be still be adding […]

While working for a global executive search firm during the height of the US credit and housing crisis, the SVP – US Finance became anxious as the firm was having an unusually difficult time collecting past due invoices from clients. This data was a key component of their financial Business Intelligence system and readily available […]

Background Let me explain what this means first and set some criteria for a statement like this. In the majority of cases this would involve moving little to no data which is usually the recommended approach for such a large cutover (a.k.a. flash cutover). Coexistence between on-premise mail systems and BPOS can be problematic and […]

FQL stands for ‘FAST Query Language’ and it used to build very flexible and powerful queries of the index. Here is a simple FQL example in which the word ‘Examen’ is searched within the document field named ‘passage’: passage:string(“Examen”) AND/OR: in these examples, the ‘and’ / ‘or’ operators indicate that they are applied to the […]

We’ve recently assisted a number of clients in Exchange 2007 à 2010 upgrades. In each case, they’ve been using ISA or TMG to publish external Exchange services. For the most part, it’s been easy to find information on the subject: the MS Exchange team has a really nice write up on the ISA configurations for […]

The SAN cert strikes again! I have a new mantra: don’t ever use SAN certs with OCS. I know, I know. “It can be done / you have it working / it’s cheaper / it’s supposed to work”. I get it. But this week was the last straw for me and the SAN; specifically the […]

Right now I’m down at TechEd 2010 in New Orleans, LA where the keynote address is in progress. Microsoft has now officially lifted the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) on all features and content which will be coming in the next release of Communications Server, which is still dubbed ‘Microsoft Communication Server 14’. The ‘14’ refers to […]

By default, SharePoint uses URLs like the following for the page that displays a post on a blog site: http://blogs.mycompany.com/blogs/blogger_name/lists/posts/post.aspx?ID=1 With a little code in an HTTP Module, we can support a much more user friendly URL format for displaying posts. In this example, I will show you how to create a module that implements […]

As promised, Microsoft has released supportability statements for various Communications Server versions when used with Server 2008 R2 hosts and domains. Yesterday two TechNet articles were released to address both scenarios. Server 2008 R2 Domains Previously no version of Communications Server was supported when deployed in an Active Directory environment using either forest/domain functional levels […]