Matt Groves Blog

Sponsorship request

Matt Groves — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:23:00 GMT

My friend Jo is running the Stratford Half Marathon to raise funds for the Shakespere Hospice who looked after Malcolm during his illness. I miss Malcolm every day and would ask that anyone who can, in these tough times, give generously. http://www.justgiving...(read more)

Windows annoyance

Matt Groves — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:41:00 GMT

Just been struggling with a mapped drive because connecting my iPod grabbed the drive letter... FFS. Why can't the ipod appear like my WMD?...(read more)

Not blogging?

Matt Groves — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:14:00 GMT

My blogging as been sporadic at best. I need to work out when something is worthy of a blog post rather than a tweet... I have finding twitter to be increasing in value, not sure why yet - is this because there are more poeple using it? Is it simply easier...(read more)

Some (potentially) useful videos...

Matt Groves — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:10:00 GMT

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f3b463e6-3e28-478e-8301-13e536293370 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=2c1634b0-5f83-42ef-b9fa-630022210be3 http://www.microsoft.com...(read more)

ISA SP1 introduces an issue (at least the way I'm looking at it, it does!)

Matt Groves — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:18:00 GMT

We were trying to configure ISA to honour the "force password change at next logon" (something it ought to do, and indeed used to do pre-SP1, OOTB). We have spent hours looking at every configuration item. We have an ISA 2006 (std edition) server...(read more)

Blog back up and running

Matt Groves — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:08:00 GMT

Thanks to Dustin (and team) for all their hard work....(read more)

Congratulations Pete and Clare!!!!

Matt Groves — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:52:00 GMT

My good friend pete and Clare had their first child yesterday, huge congrats to them both. Baby George (7lb 14oz) was born at 0353. Mother and baby doing well. Pics here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=87412&id=683616487&ref=nf...(read more)

To "s" or to "z" (?)

Matt Groves — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:22:00 GMT

To quote James O'Neill : "So our customers have Data centres (places, British spelling) in which they run Windows Server 2008 Datacenter edition (product name, American spelling), in which they say they Virtualise workloads (quoted text of an...(read more)

Remember this...

Matt Groves — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:39:00 GMT

Whether it is Twitter, Facebook, or even your Messenger status, think first: "Do I really want the whole world to know I just said that?" -Woody ( www.thesanitypoint.com )...(read more)

Another quote

Matt Groves — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:02:00 GMT

"Without effective and specialized governance, SharePoint will only replicate your business’ existing problems at a faster rate and on a larger scale than you thought possible! " – Julian Warne "He's right..." - Matt Groves...(read more)

SharePoint MCM/MCA

Matt Groves — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:35:00 GMT

Just seen this from Joel (via twitter ). A micro debate has ensued on twitter and although it pains me to admit defeat (about anything) I must agree with Andrew - to be true SharePoint "master" you need to be able to cover both IT Pro/infrastructure...(read more)

20 things you should know about Virtualisation

Matt Groves — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:14:00 GMT

I am a big fan of virtualisation, the main reasons for me are: Agility (ease of scale out, provisioning, server managment, deployment, etc) DR/Failover Lowers TCO IMO virtualisation is the default stance, give me a reason to not virtualise! Here are 20...(read more)

Birmingham SUGUK

Matt Groves — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:42:00 GMT

The first Birmingham event ( http://suguk.org/blogs/combined_knowledge/archive/2008/10/17/14536.aspx ) went very well, Eversheds did a great job of hosting, Sergey and Steve delivered some good content. Hopefully this will be the first of a series of...(read more)

Quote...

Matt Groves — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:41:00 GMT

"Sharepoint will be the dominant DMS at law firms. Nothing happens overnight in the legal vertical, but check back in ten years, more or less, and we shall see. " -Bill Gratsch View the article here: Part 1 | Part 2 My thoughts: I concur, in...(read more)

Search providers (adding MOSS search to IE7/Firefox)

Matt Groves — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:35:00 GMT

Just thought I would share something I knocked together earlier today... This based partly on this from Mark Harrison and a sample from Greg Griffiths So, you'd like the nice IE/Firefox search box to include searching your MOSS site(s)?? You can do...(read more)

Got a dirty MOSS install?

Matt Groves — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:29:00 GMT

Call these guys! I saw this on the way to the office this morning and it brightened up an otherwise boring journey ;)...(read more)

web 2.0 in Legal

Matt Groves — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:18:00 GMT

Myself and Antony Clay recently delivered an excellent (if I do say so myself ) presentation on the use of Web 2.0 technologies in the legal sector . This was delivered at Legal Insight to an audience of top legal IT directors and IT professionals. The...(read more)

Clean install: Error 5586 SQL Exception 15123

Matt Groves — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:44:00 GMT

Just seen a wierd error building a clean MOSS VM, running the config wizard afetr install resulting in a config DB being created but errors being logged. The error refers to the setup routine not being able to set properties within SQL... After a few...(read more)

SUGUK 14-AUG-08

Matt Groves — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:33:00 GMT

The SUGUK session was the largest to date with 140 attendees, I thought it was an excellent session and Eric's presentation of performance considerations when coding was awsome, I picked up some useful stuff that I wish some of my dev's were there...(read more)

SUGUK Session (July 10th)

Matt Groves — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:14:00 GMT

Thanks to everyone who attended the session last week, and thanks to Steve (et al) for organising... My slides are available here: http://www.sharepointblogs.com/files/folders/mattg/entry18744.aspx I hope to provide a step-by-step article covering off...(read more)

SUGUK Event, July 10th...

Matt Groves — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:44:00 GMT

We have a once a year user group evening lined up in July with two rooms , 6 sessions and speakers including Todd Bleeker , Bill English , Penny Coventry , Andrew Woodward , Steve Smith and I. It will be a great evening following on from the Golf day...(read more)

Skip and Hannah's Wedding Photos

Matt Groves — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:08:00 GMT

I have nearly finished sorting out the photos, most are available here: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/grovesfamilyuk...(read more)

I did it again!!

Matt Groves — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:12:00 GMT

My wife and I are pleased to announce that we are expecting our second child! <me excited> <me need to crack on with sorting house> <me need to get lots of golf in this year as next year looks like being a wash out> [Edit: just heard...(read more)

Sponsor Dan

Matt Groves — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:43:00 GMT

My old mate Dan is trekking the Inca trail raising money for Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC). He's doing this at the end of May... RMHC provides homes away from home for families with children in hospital. For more info visit www.rhmc.org.uk...(read more)

SharePoint licensing - a common question I get asked...

Matt Groves — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:31:00 GMT

SharePoint licensing is available in 8 models (if you count all flavours of SharePoint). List pricing shown, your Select/EA “true” costs will vary significantly (i.e. will probably be much lower!). WSS – licensed as part of the Windows OS on which it...(read more)