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  • Installing Security Update for SQL Server Service Pack 2 (KB954606) takes a LOOOONG time

    While I’m ranting , I might as well point out that installing the Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (KB954606) takes forever and a day, with no info in the “Overall Progress” bar.  That said – don’t try to cancel the update, the Cancel operation takes just as long .  So the...
    Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-01-2008

  • <rant> The Bane of my VPC Existence

    Aaaargh.  Other than simply plugging the plug on my VPC (Action – Close – Turn Off), there just doesn’t seem to be a reliable way to quickly suspend my VPC work:  Since I work on an external drive with a standalone power supply I don’t dare simply suspending my laptop. Finding that this is...
    Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-01-2008

  • Silly SharePoint Bug: Folder name blocked as if it was a file

    I was creating a folder for one of our clients in one of our Document Libraries, and was going to use the name of the client, but SharePoint wouldn't let me: "The file you are attempting to save or retrieve has been blocked from this Web site by the server administrators." Huh? Turns out...
    Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-21-2008

  • MOSS: "an Adventure"

    I'm tired of ranting about this myself , so below follows choice excerpts of fallenRogue 's goodread about other developers' SharePoint complaints (i.e. what the courts call hearsay ). From SharePoint Development is an Adventure! There is an amazing amount of pain that developers in the ...
    Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-17-2008

  • MOSS: HTML Object Hierarchy

    There's been many complaints about skinning/designing for SharePoint, and while some complaints can be debunked it's hard to argue that MOSS is not a mess, from an HTML object hierarchy standpoint. I was looking at the InfoCision webpage , which is hosted in MOSS (or WSS - not sure), and I used...
    Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-26-2008

  • MOSS: Rant: Pathetic Documentation

    There's a running joke around the office that if you have two SharePoint references, one of them MSDN and the other a blog post, and the two differ, then the blog post must be correct. Seriously, having been weaned on the excellent documentation for .NET and SQL Server, I must say I am VERY disappointed...
    Posted to Mirrored Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-29-2008
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