Office 365, SharePoint, Azure, OnePlace Solutions & Life's Other Little Wonders
Microsoft Surface Pro 4 doesn't have built in LTE capability (at the time of writing this). What this means is that your Surface Pro 4 can't connect to the internet on its own. It needs to connect to a wireless network/hotspot, or use a USB adaptor to provide access to the internet (e.g. physical Ethernet... Continue Reading →
Being a Windows Phone user I was pretty excited when the Continuum feature started getting demonstrated. But the sceptic inside me kept nagging at me that it’s probably going to be more gimmick than substance. A chance conversation at Microsoft Ignite Australia has changed my opinion and got me excited again. A reminder about what... Continue Reading →
Here’s a quick tip that one of my colleagues showed my this week that makes working with multiple monitors a lot easier. Thanks to @FreeRangeEggs for this tip. The Problem You’ve got 2 windows (A and B) and you want to dock them side by side on monitor 1. Its easy to dock window... Continue Reading →
Microsoft's really long Build developer keynote, condensed into 2 minutes http://mashable.com/2015/04/29/microsoft-build-keynote-video/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link Welcoming Developers to Windows 10 Windows 10 on One Billion Devices Universal Windows Platform Innovation Windows 10 Welcomes All Developers and Their Code (including Android and iOS) Microsoft Edge (new browser replacement for IE) http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/04/29/welcoming-developers-to-windows-10/ Continuum for Windows 10 for phones... Continue Reading →
Currently only USA and UK Windows Phones can access Cortana Beta. Some other countries such as Australia have access to Cortana Alpha. The “Hey Cortana” feature which allows you to start Cortana listening by simply saying “Hey Cortana” is not included in the Alpha and we have to wait patiently for the Beta. There is... Continue Reading →
After experiencing some intermittent “path not valid” and very frustrating errors trying to open different types of files from my SharePoint server I’d had enough. I had to know what was going on. Here’s the behaviour I was seeing. I had used a certain machine to edit SharePoint files in applications such as WordPad and... Continue Reading →
I was recently working with documents stored in SharePoint (Office 365 to be exact) and was seeing poor performance when trying to open file types with applications other than Office. At first I just put it down to a slow connection to Office 365, but I quickly realised that accessing files from Office 365 via... Continue Reading →
Are you having trouble opening/editing files stored in SharePoint, especially non Office files on Windows Server 2012? By default the WebClient service is not installed on Windows Server 2012. Without this service running, opening/editing of non-Office files stored in SharePoint is very restricted. To enable the WebClient service in Windows 2012 follow these steps: Start... Continue Reading →
What is a .ps1 file? If you want to save a series of PowerShell commands in a file so you can run them again later then you effectively creating a PowerShell script. This is simply a text file with a .ps1 extension. The file contains a series of PowerShell commands, with each command appearing on... Continue Reading →
I’ve installed Windows 2012 server on a few Hyper-V images in the past but ran into an error that looked unfamiliar. I created my Hyper-V machine, configured it with a dynamic hard drive, added a DVD and mounted the Windows Server 2012 ISO making sure the DVD drive was top of the boot order and... Continue Reading →
Cameron Dwyer 