When a user attempts to login to they use DNS and SRV records to lookup their home server. They start by making three parallel requests for: _sipinternaltls._tcp.domain.com _sipinternal._tcp.domain.com _sip._tls.domain.com The first two are defined in your internal DNS with the last one being published externally. The clients use these SRV records to...
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Big news released today! In April/May 2012, Microsoft will release the next iteration of Dynamics CRM 2011 code, which they package up into functionality internally codenamed “R8″. There are lots of great features coming that you can read all about in the new Statement of Direction. Here are a few...
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One of my favorite add-on to SharePoint from a on going training perspective is the Microsoft SharePoint Productivity Hub. This free product from Microsoft allows organizations to have a self-help for training. Microsoft introduced the Productivity Hub back in SharePoint 2007. The hub took much of the content that on...
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Introduction The Content Query Web Part (CQWP) is SharePoint’s standard way to pull in data from libraries and lists. SharePoint 2010 outputs data as XML, so the CQWP uses XSLT templates to format the output. To customize the output of a content query, there are two steps: Edit a file...
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When Service Pack 1 was released for SharePoint 2010, a new set of features was introduced in the User Profile Service Application, however over the past few weeks I have encountered an unexpected result as part of the new security trimming option. New after SP is a set of options...
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