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I am a K2 Insider

Andrew Shough — Fri, 04 May 2012 04:27:45 +0000

Yesterday I was officially made a K2 Insider by K2. The K2 Insider programme is K2’s version of Microsoft’s MVP programme but for K2 specialists...

Forms-base Authentication: user management

Andrew Shough — Wed, 02 May 2012 07:12:37 +0000

I was doing a bit of bog standard SharePoint administration on our local farm at the office this morning and ran into an annoying issue where I couldn’t add new Forms-Based users. I ran through all the steps and found that there was nothing wrong with our setup...

K2Forms: A first look.

Andrew Shough — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:00:09 +0000

About a month or so ago, K2 launched the beta phase of their new technology called K2 Forms. The whole premise around K2 Forms is to provide an integrated seamless experience for K2 designers, developers, and users. Using Forms means that you can drop all other forms technologies such as InfoPath etc.

State Service in SharePoint

Andrew Shough — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:30:04 +0000

Every SharePoint person will tell you that it is not a good idea to run the farm configuration wizard when setting up a new farm but rather to create each service application that you need, this ensures that you don’t have any unnecessary resource hogs running. One of the of the core services that gets overlooked is the State Service, people don’t know about it as the farm configuration wizard sets this service up.

A big gotcha with K2

Andrew Shough — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:40:10 +0000

I was at a client yesterday helping out with a process in K2 Blackpoint, and one of their requirements was that the person filling out this form has to select their project managers, they don’t have to have a project manager but are not restricted to one. So we put a people picker on the form and allowed the user to select multiple users so that K2 could dynamically set the destination of a client approval task.

Upgrading your SharePoint databases

Andrew Shough — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:38:19 +0000

If you look at the “Review database status” page under “Upgrade and Migration” in SharePoint 2010 Central Administration, you may see a message in the status column that says something like “Database in compatibility range and an upgrade is recommended”. To do this you need to run the powershell command “Upgrade-SPContentDatabase ...

Great Technical Speaker Tips and Help

Andrew Shough — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:07:48 +0000

I have recently been put on notice, by the powers that be at my company, that I may have to present or co-present at a conference next month. The conference is not a small one, it is Share Conference 2012. This is not a small conference, it is the event for SharePoint in terms of [...]

Golfcard: First Look

Andrew Shough — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:19:46 +0000

This is a sneak peak at my first Windows Phone 7 App, called Golfcard. It allows the user to record their rounds of golf and it will work out their handicap based on the South African Golf Association rules.

SharePoint 2010–Applying updates

Andrew Shough — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:14:45 +0000

In the previous versions of SharePoint, when you applied an cumulative update or service pack to the server version, you had to install the SharePoint services update then the server update.

script to start programs

Andrew Shough — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:23:12 +0000

I have a four programs that I use at work which I always start up first thing at the office, so instead of running them individually every time I wanted them to start up when Windows starts up, your first reaction like mine is to put them in the startup folder, the only problem is [...]