Alistair Laing

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Items of relevance to my work for a company in Edinburgh providing solutions to the Finance Industry.

Post by Spencer Harbar on Configuring Back Connection Host Names using Group Policy: Ok, a rather long title but I didn’t want to go too far on the paraphrase. If you work with SharePoint I’d recommend a look at the latest blog post by Spence over at Groundhog Day: Configuring Back Connection Host Names using Group Policy . For one thing it is a nice reminder that SharePoint administrators need to understand their infrastructure. Sure we can’t keep all of the detail in our heads, but at least know the roles of the technology and what to use to do what. In this example Group policy is used to implement something on...; posted @ Monday, February 15, 2010 11:03 AM | Feedback (0)

SharePoint 2010 Emerges from NDA: With the start of the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, the much awaited information on SharePoint 2010 is beginning to emerge from NDA. For those SharePoint community members itching to share information there have been a flurry of obviously pre-prepared articles on the changes and improvements we can come to expect. My only caveat at this early stage (the product has yet to reach public beta) is that many of the articles are a bit on the light side, so the depth of material like we have with MOSS 2007 is absent at the moment. Two blogs to...; posted @ Tuesday, October 20, 2009 10:25 AM | Feedback (0)

That was the week that was: So where do I start? I’m in quite a different working arrangement at the moment, spending the working week in Basingstoke of all places. We’ve getting towards completion a project for the website of a High Street retailer and if you know anything about retail you know that the bulk of their annual sales fall around the Christmas period. I’ve worked on a handful of retail websites in my time, only a handful for a number of reasons. One of them is that there are very few organisations that are big enough to be able to afford to run...; posted @ Friday, October 16, 2009 5:56 PM | Feedback (0)

Passed 70-631 WSS Configuring Today: Yay, passed another Microsoft Exam today, almost a year since I sat my last Microsoft Exam. Today I passed 70-631 Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Configuring. It is an interesting exam, partly because it covers such a broad base, and partly because it was a great reminder for me as to what is included in the “free” download. The exam itself is a broad brush affair, with bits on dns setup, network load balancing, ISA Server, MOM, basically the stuff in the exam outline is covered – so go read it up. I got a pretty good score,...; posted @ Thursday, August 13, 2009 8:32 PM | Feedback (0)

London SharePoint User Group Meeting – August 27th: I just got an email through from Nick Swan of the UK SharePoint user group on an interesting event in London at the end of the month. He says: “many of you who are using twitter and reading blogs will have heard of Dux Raymond as he's very involved in the SharePoint community over in the States. In August he is over here for a visit and has kindly agreed to come and present at a user group meeting. As he's traveling such a long way we've decided to give him both sessions! (and the abstracts he sent were...; posted @ Wednesday, August 05, 2009 11:22 AM | Feedback (0)

What is Windows Azure? (A Hand-Drawn Video): I like what Steve Marx has done over on his blog with an intro to Windows Azure – go look, its only 4 minutes long to watch his video.; posted @ Tuesday, July 07, 2009 4:01 PM | Feedback (0)

SharePoint SP2 Update: Run on over to the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog where they have posted an update to the expiration issue with SP2, it is a workaround fix and hopefully a corrected SP2 download will be around in the next 4-6 weeks.; posted @ Monday, June 29, 2009 11:09 AM | Feedback (0)

Sample MOSS 2007 Web Content Management site now available: Andrew Connell, one of the people to follow on SharePoint Web content management, and also the author of the best (ok the only) book on SharePoint Web Content Management, has just posted up a blog post to follow up his excellent presentations at Tech Ed EMEA in November 2008. I’ve got to get a good dig around in it, but the promise was that it would be a reference site for architecture as well as demos. Go see what Andrew Connell says on Adventureworks.; posted @ Tuesday, June 23, 2009 2:09 PM | Feedback (0)

Introducing the first Certified SharePoint Masters: I've been following @harbars on twitter and knew he was over in the 'States doing the Microsoft Certified Master Program, but reading through the other list of attendees just goes to show what a unique experience that R2 session was - most of R2 (as was R1) of the Program were Microsoft folks. So even more congratulations to Spence on the achievement. Check out the MCM Blog posting on it, and the SharePoint team posting. PS: Did I tell you that I used to work with Spence ? ;); posted @ Thursday, April 30, 2009 3:00 AM | Feedback (0)

I am still employed!: My last post indicated that I may be seeking employment soon. I’m pleased to say that having reached the end of my consultation period, my current position is no longer at risk and I am still employed at my current job. A great relief, and although I am sure that challenges remain in the economy ahead, I am pleased. I’d like to say thanks to those in my “internal network” at work, my “external network” for those I know for offering help and suggestions, folks I know otherwise through the IAM etc but to my family for being...; posted @ Friday, April 24, 2009 2:22 PM | Feedback (1)

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