Peter Carson
Oct29

Disable the Name ActiveX Control on public facing SharePoint Sites

You may have often seen this popup come up on a public facing site that you are browsing too.  It is because the SharePoint Server is trying to load the control, and it is not in the list of pre-approved controls in IE7.  The control is used to ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-29-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Oct29

Picture Management in SharePoint 2010

Digital asset management is something of particular interest to me.  For those of you that aren’t aware, at Envision IT we have a number of products for image management.  You can see them at www.envisionit.com/products.  So naturally I was very i ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-29-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Oct29

Mississauga and Toronto SharePoint User Groups

I’ve been meaning to get connected to the local SharePoint community for some time now.  I’ve heard good things about the Toronto SharePoint Users Group (TSPUG), and last night I decided to get out to a meeting.  Savash Alic from Microsoft Canad ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-29-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Oct28

Upgrading WCM Sites

So I'm back from Las Vegas, and finally getting a chance to catch my breath and start looking at the upgrade of our web site to 2010.  One of the very nice features of the upgrade to 2010 is that by default the 2007 user experience is maintained.  ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-28-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Oct28

Seeing Full Error Messages

Everyone remember getting frustrated by SharePoint’s “An unexpected error has occurred” that gets displayed by default when something goes wrong in SharePoint?  Well it still happens in SP2010, but the good news is the same fix takes care of it. ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-28-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Oct21

SharePoint 2010 Blog – Anonymous Access

Okay, so maybe charging ahead on Beta 1 isn`t always the best idea.  I got my blog site up at blog.petercarson.ca with very little difficulty.  I pasted up a few of my posts, and things were still looking good.  We registered the DNS name, setup t ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-21-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Oct21

SharePoint 2010 Upgrade

So I’ve attended Sean Livingston’s two upgrade sessions at the SharePoint conference today (SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Part 1: Fundamentals and SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Part 2: Advanced Scenarios) and I figure I’m ready to try upgrading a MOSS 2007 si ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-21-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Oct20

SharePoint 2010 Blog

For those of you who have also made it down to the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, you’ve no doubt been overwhelmed as well with the sheer quantity of information being presented.  With as many as 17 different sessions running at any ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-20-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post