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Friday, February 03, 2012 10:58 AM

Search: are you willing to manage it as an application?

The question was asked, "how hard is it to configure FAST and what does that effort give you?" The none-too-helpful answer is that with every search product you get what you give. FAST happens to have more substance so logically there will be more to...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012 11:59 AM

Revisiting an 8 year old post on cookies and opt-in

Common Sense and Opt-In: http://weblogs.asp.net/erobillard/archive/2003/05/08/6680.aspx Eight years ago I wrote a brief piece on cookie management proposing that preferences be remembered by default with an opt-out option. The part that got the most feedback...
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Monday, January 30, 2012 12:28 PM

Thoughts on SharePoint Application Pools, Recycling and "JIT Lag"

What are Application Pools? Application Pools are a .NET construct, and each pool represents an instance of the Common Language Runtime (CLR) executing managed .NET code. Each application pool in IIS hosts one or more web applications, and the recommendation...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011 4:09 PM

Toronto SharePoint Camp 2011 - Thank-you!

The 5th Annual Toronto SharePoint Camp was last Saturday and it was another terrific success. Thanks to the TSPUG executive committee and the small army of volunteers who made it happen, and to the smiling faces of this year's 200+ attendees for making...
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Wednesday, November 09, 2011 5:39 PM

Windows Phone 7 and Canada

I love my Samsung Focus and I don't know why it isn't the most popular phone in Canada. WPCentral reported today on the lacklustre support of Canadian carriers for the WP7 platform. Basically, even if you've been sold on the platform or a particular phone...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011 12:14 PM

SharePoint 2010 Workflow for Multiple Items (Architecture)

I had the question today of whether SharePoint 2010 supports workflow on multiple items, since Groove's workflow apparently supported multiple items and that model disappeared when Groove Workspaces were amalgamated into SharePoint Sites and SharePoint...
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010 7:00 PM

How to: Build a Server Core Domain Controller

When I started putting together my standard virtual machines for development and demonstrating SharePoint 2010, I wanted to have a domain controller that I could share and use for any new image. That way I don't need to continually recreate my service...
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Tuesday, November 09, 2010 11:07 AM

This weekend: SharePoint Saturday Toronto

Wow, this Saturday offers 21 sessions in 3 tracks, all for free . Given the billable rate of this speaker list, this has to be the best bargain you'll see for a while. And I'm going to go ahead and reveal a secret here - attendees at SharePoint Saturday...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:57 AM

How to protect SharePoint servers from the ASP.NET vulnerability

On Friday an ASP.NET vulnerability was announced at an Argentine security conference, Microsoft posted Security Advisory 2416728 within a few hours, and by early Saturday morning Scott Guthrie described steps to mitigate ASP.NET sites against the vulnerability...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010 3:43 PM

Toronto SharePoint User Group: Tonight Cancelled, Next Meeting: June 16

Apologies all, notification was to go out sooner but apparently we're having technical difficulties so please help spread the word: The May meeting (tonight) is cancelled, leaving you free to enjoy the summery Toronto evening. Enjoy! Next month on Wednesday...
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