Just having a short break here from studying, and thought I would write a little post. Currently revising for the Microsoft exam 70-293 which I am taking on Monday (can think of other thigns to be doing on a Friday evening!). Just been going through and doing practice tests and looking things up on the
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Java Proxy Settings
Just been trying to work out why some Java applets have not been able to run on the network. We use a proxy server and the settings are deployed to each user (different settings per user), in the form of a PAC file which cannot be changed. It appears that Java cannot handle the PAC
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SharePoint Workflows
Many people have probably already found this resource, but I thought that I would post it again as once more it has been the solution to my workflow woes. This great collection of resources gives you greater flexibility with all of the workflows included with SharePoint, and with no setup hassles. I’m not going to
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Time to Give Up and Go Home
I was being proactive for once and thought I would do a check of various parts of the system while I had not as many problems to fix. You know, find out what is wrong or not working as well as it should and fixing it before people complain about it. I walked around the
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802.1x User Authentication with Mandatory Profiles
Just been working on 60 new Asus Eee netbooks that we have bought for student use in the college. Mainly, testing thoroughly that the wireless was going to work flawlessly. We got everything working for ourselves using Network Policy Server, HP Procurve 420 AP’s and PEAP. Only problem – when a student logs in, the
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SharePoint Search
Although we have had SharePoint running now for quite a while, since the server rebuild in August we have not had our search service working. We access our local site through http://intranet.domain.co.uk. Works great. The problem with this is that the web address is different to the machine name, and is mapped to the local
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Reconnect Just Flickers & Returns
After all that work sorting out my user profiles, and reducing my logon time as far as I can (record is 12 seconds from entering password to a working desktop :-) ) I have found another problem. The clients are booting up fine, pulling the config files from the network and running the right applications.
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Group Policy Client Service Failed the Login: Access is Denied
This error has been annoying me for nearly 4 hours now. We have a terminal server for students. All students use a mandatory profile, located on a share so that it can be accessed by all of the servers in the farm. I thought this would be easy to set up, so I did the
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FBA Using AD
Just working on Forms Authentication for SharePoint. Causing a bit of a headache to say the least. The objective: Enable staff to access the Intranet from home on a specific URL, and sign in using their username and password with a graphical form, so that a disclaimer can be shown. After some hunting I came
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SharePoint Room Reservations Date Format
I have been setting up the SharePoint Room Equipment and Reservations Template for use in the college as a bookings system for ICT Rooms, Minibuses, Halls and Meeting Rooms. Came across an annoyance where when selecting a time period in the day, the form would automatically fill in the date in American format (mm/dd/yyyy). All
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