Ben There, Done That

Body: A couple months back I was working on an Office 365 public facing site and needed to add some JavaScript to the site.  In this case I was just trying to add Kontactr to a page.  I know, once of the gadgets with Office 365 is  Contact Us, however it is missing the CAPTCHA, something I really en

Body: I can’t take all the credit for this post, it is a combination of knowledge gleaned from 3 different posts (see references at the end of the post) and some playing around on my part. To start with, a little background.  The environment I created this in is SharePoint 2010 Enterprise (no InfoPa

Body: So, I signed up for an Office 365 account a few months back.  Lync offers a great solution for hosting online meetings.  However, one downside is there isn’t any options included with Office 365 for integrating a telephone audio conference with your online meeting/built in Lync audio.  They do

Body: Hardware/Software 13” MacBook Pro, 120 SSD Hard Drive, 8 GB Ram Software Installed: [Update 3/5/2012] This has all been done on Windows 8 Consumer Preview, I haven’t had a chance to give this all a try on Windows 8 Server Beta yet. Microsoft programs that seem to be working fine: Apps you woul

Body: Just a quick FYI on installing any of the Windows 8 bits on VMWare Workstation.  I was trying to install both Server and Desktop OS in VMWare tonight and was getting the error: “couldn't read the <ProductKey> from unattend.xml”.  VMWare Workstation tries to use it’s own unattended install that

Body: I’m sticking with PowerShell again for this blog post, this time it will be updating the members web part on a SharePoint page.  If you read my last post we were using PowerShell to provision the entire site.  This was another piece of the provisioning process.  The web part was already on the

Body: So here it is, my first post of 2012.  I’ve been doing a lot with PowerShell and SharePoint lately and really been enjoying it.  However, this one tasks had be stumped for a while.  Within a SharePoint view, under the “Folders” section you have the ability to specify either “Show items inside

Body: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone!  I hope and trust everyone has had a blessed year, despite any hardships that may have transpired in the last 12 months.  As for me, I’ve had a wonderful year of consulting as well as some great times personally with my wife and family.  This y

Body: So, recently I decided to install Windows Server 2008 R2 on my MBP (late 2010 model) rather than using Mac OS with VMWare Fusion.  I won’t go into all the details around this decision, however I did encounter one big surprise.  This one being a nightmare with Hyper-V.  I liked the idea of bein

Body: Recently I've been working on a solution that required using the client object model to upload large files to SharePoint. Not having a development background, I started searching for the best way to accomplish this task. I came across this helpful blog post that gave me a good start. I followe