Being new to the whole blogging thing, I've always wondered how to better manage my posts. I started using One Note to help me manage but it was fiddly the the posts weren't formatting as well as i thought. I just wasn’t being as efficient as I'd im ...[Read More]

This used to be one of the most annoying things to happen during the first steps of a SharePoint implementation. You deploy a 64Bit server, apply all the latest updates and hot fixes...go to IIS and enable ASP.NET web service extension but its not ...[Read More]

Today we had to crawl content from a clients existing CMS2001 intranet site. The content source was setup in the SSP and appeared to be configured correctly.    When it came time to crawl the site the following error was appearing This is caused ...[Read More]

So I needed to setup alerts to go to a distribution list...should be straight forward right? Wrong. There's a few little things that you need to be aware of when trying to set this up, here's what worked for me: Firstly, for a distribution group t ...[Read More]

I came across this error while doing a SharePoint implementation. Whenever I clicked the search settings or user profile settings within the SSP all I'd get is "Authentication failed because the remote party has closed the transport stream&qu ...[Read More]

I am one of the unfortunate ones in the IT world...my name is Con. For those that are not aware "Con" is a reserved name in the DOS conventions that still apply to Windows today! This explains why my blog URL is what is what it is and hope ...[Read More]