SQL Server for SharePoint geeks and other involuntary DBA’s

Today I’ve delivered another run of my SQL presentation for non-DBA’s at the Belgian Community Day 2012. It has evolved quite a bit over time, but 60 minutes still seems to be too short to do it properly Key Takeaways from my session Respect software boundaries & limits, review the support article and read the [...]

“Bad Data” error when configuring IIS on a sysprepped machine

I was recently installing some SharePoint farms with my favorite AutoSPInstaller script. Unfortunately, when trying to create the farm with New-SPConfigurationDatabase I was greeted with the following error message on every machine: Exception: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0×80090005): Bad Data. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80090005) I began by checking the usual suspects like the username/password combination of my farm [...]

Speaking at Community Day 2012

The Belgian community is organizing the sixth edition of Community Day! Community Day 2012 will take place on June 21st 2012 in Utopolis Mechelen. Thanks to our sponsors, Community Day 2012 is a FREE event! 17 user groups will outperform themselves to bring you their view on Microsoft products in 30+ sessions and panel discussions. [...]

Claims based authentication for mere mortals

This is the presentation I gave at the SharePoint Saturday event in Belgium. The demo & logistic gods weren’t that good to me as both the projector and my last demo failed on me, but I think it was ok nevertheless. I’ll publish a video of my last demo on my blog soon. If you’re [...]

Planning for the cloud

This is a live blogging post from the International SharePoint Conference London 2012. So don’t expect well-written proza here. Session by Spencer Harbar, Kimmo Forss Consolidated post for sessions IT114, IT115 Introduction focus on the public offerings of Office365, not dedicated offering all technical capabilities are baked into the SharePoint 2010 product all cloud offerings [...]