Musings by Generator

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 [...]

Enabling Metadata on your SharePoint 2010 site

Andrew Shough — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 07:04:48 +0000

If you want to use Managed Metadata in your site, such as the navigation or create a column you need to enable some features.

Customizing the Global Navigation in SharePoint with CSS, JQuery, and Superfish

Andrew Shough — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:13:30 +0000

We decided to setup a base that we can use at clients when they want to brand the global navigation and have a proper dropdown style menu. We went with JQuery, and I eventually came across this library for JQuery called superfish which is built for dropdown menus. So below is the steps I followed to get this working.

Bulk upload of Profile Pictures using PowerShell

Andrew Shough — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:12:32 +0000

A complete solution for doing a bulk upload of user profile pictures into SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell.

I survived Tech-ED

Andrew Shough — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:35:54 +0000

I somehow managed to talk my boss into letting me attend Tech-ED this year, this was also my first time at Tech-ED and I can see why some people have become Microsoft evangelists. I thought I would write up about my impressions of the event, and any tips I figured out along the way.

God save the Queen!

Andrew Shough — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:55:04 +0000

In light of your immediate failure to financially manage yourselves and also in recent years your tendency to elect incompetent Presidents of the USA and therefore not able to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. (You should look up 'revocation' in the Oxford English Dictionary.)