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Burgers done “Adam Perry Lang” Style

JeffDeVerter — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:28:20 +0000

Tonights burger grilling session was done as recommended by Adam Perry Lang style. This means they were first grilled over the coals (note the char marks). While that was going on (and before) I was grilling onions in Extra Virgin Olive Oil seasoned with fresh pepper and sea salt. The onions were removed and after the burgers had cooked for 2-3 mins per side – they were transferred to the cast iron griddle.

All of the awesome grilled onion flavored oil was transferred to the burger. Oh, and did I mention I cooked 2 strips of bacon on there as well? Total flavor explosion!

In-Browser Theme Customization

JeffDeVerter — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:45:09 +0000

I’ve pointed out in several WEB-Casts how much I like the feature of being able to customize a SharePoint 2010 Theme right in the browser. If you’re not familiar with the feature, here is a screen-shot:

Now I made the assumption this was a feature that could be found throughout all of SharePoint (SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation). Last week I received a ticket from a customer wondering where that feature was on their server… their SharePoint Foundation Server.

Notice something missing? Yeah – it’s the Customize Theme section.

Now the customer still have the option to create THMX file with Office 2010 and there several resources out there to do that (see note below) – but what they wanted was to make these changes in the browser.

Note: Resources for creating themes in Office 2010:

I’m on SlashDot – That’s seems odd

JeffDeVerter — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:25:47 +0000

The Rackspace SharePoint team will be live on Slashdot (www.slashdot.com) answering your sharepoint questions today at 12:00 central. Come on over!

SharePoint Content on the iPad

JeffDeVerter — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:31:36 +0000

Here is an interesting product from SouthLabs that lets you read your SharePoint content from your iPad:

Dynamic Pages Created with SharePoint Search – Part 2

JeffDeVerter — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:55:43 +0000

This screen-cast shows you how to use the “Search Core Results” web-part in SharePoint Server to show dynamic content in your SharePoint site.

The really slick part of this is the content is “site agnostic” – meaning the information you are showing could be from other sites, site collections, web apps, or even external content to SharePoint.

Previous Posts in this series:
Post 1

Dynamic Pages Created with SharePoint Search – Part 1

JeffDeVerter — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:15:17 +0000

In this screen-cast I show you how to use the “People Core Results” web-part in SharePoint Server to render dynamic content in your SharePoint site. The really slick part of this is the content is “site agnostic” – meaning the information you are showing could be from other sites, site collections, web apps, or even external content to SharePoint.

SharePoint SQL Security

JeffDeVerter — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:33:54 +0000

I had a request from a customer to “encrypt their data”. This open ended request led to a series of other questions…

• Does this mean individual columns in the database?
• The DB and Log files on the database server?
• The data as it is transmitted between the DB server and the SharePoint Server?

Have you noticed that It seems that most all questions in SharePoint always lead to a series of other questions?

Turns out SharePoint can support all three types of security, what I am going to address here is the file level encryption which is referred to as “Transparent Data Encryption”.
Here is Microsoft’s official definition of what TDL is in SQL 2008:

“Transparent data encryption (TDE) performs real-time I/O encryption and decryption of the data and log files. The encryption uses a database encryption key (DEK), which is stored in the database boot record for availability during recovery. The DEK is a symmetric key secured by using a certificate stored in the master database of the server or an asymmetric key protected by an EKM module. TDE protects data “at rest”, meaning the data and log files. It provides the ability to comply with many laws, regulations, and guidelines established in various industries. This enables software developers to encrypt data by using AES and 3DES encryption algorithms without changing existing applications.”

So SharePoint does support this and is quite transparent to SharePoint as the data still just shows up to the WFE as it did before. Here are a few good resources to dig deeper:

MSDN: Understanding Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb934049.aspx)
TechNet: How to: Enable TDE Using EKM

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645957.aspx

MSDN: Database Encryption in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc278098(SQL.100).aspx

Enterprise Content Management in SharePoint 2010

JeffDeVerter — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:13:41 +0000

SharePoint 2010 brings a lot to the table in the form of new tools and capabilities – part of these are improvements in Enterprise Content Management. In this screen-cast, I walk you through 2 important improvements: Document ID’s and Document Sets.

Part 1

Part 2

Off to WWPC

JeffDeVerter — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:26:05 +0000

I’ll be spending the week this week in DC at the Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference. If you are going to be there – let me know – we’ll catch up. Make sure to stop by the Rackspace booth where I’ll be spending the mojority of my time. You can also look me up in the Microsoft Meeting Planner tool.

SharePoint 2010 Launch – Seattle

JeffDeVerter — Sat, 15 May 2010 16:34:58 +0000

Yesterday a group of us from Rackspace traveled to Seattle for the SharePoint 2010 launch event at the Nectar Lounge in downtown Seattle.

It was a great time. All of the usual suspects in the area were there, Joel Oleson, Christian Buckley, Mike Watson and several folks from the product team at Microsoft. It was a great time to celebrate the official launch of the product in a relaxed “community” atmosphere.

The event was organized by several members of the Puget Sound SharePoint Point User Group and was funded by several vendors. Check out the Twitter photo stream located here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deverter/sets/72157623941432721/show/