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Re: Lenovo W520 bricked & won’t turn on

FreaqyGeeq — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 07:28:17 -0000

This just worked for a Lenovo IdeaPad z570 -- can't thank you enough for posting this info!

Re: There are no logon servers available – Create Cached Credentials over PPTP VPN

Katrina — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:33:04 -0000

This also works with the SonicWALL Global VPN Client. Thank you!

Re: iPhone 4 vs Nokia Lumia 800 – 24 hours later

LightInDark — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:26:46 -0000

I think its a great phone, marketplace is already bustling full of apps to look through, and the development is getting larger so more will be emerging. It's very stylish and every app and menu fits together to create a whole package that makes the phone seem more professional.

Re: iPhone 4 vs Nokia Lumia 800 – 24 hours later

LightInDark — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:25:49 -0000

You dont get contact transfer between nokia and iphone because iphone doesnt support bluetooth to other devices other than iphone, which is apples problem not the lumia.

I took all my contacts from my android fine.

Re: VirtualBox & Native VMWare .vmdk images (IDE only!)

Radityo — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:38:25 -0000

Also ur VM hard disk could corrupted. I've encountered that problem before, and all my data was lost!
Thanks, ur post enlightened me!

Re: iPhone 4 vs Nokia Lumia 800 – 24 hours later

Lovely Cuteteddy — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:11:45 -0000

i m planning to buy lumia.....is it reli doin fine!?!

Re: iPhone 4 vs Nokia Lumia 800 – 24 hours later

Lovely Cuteteddy — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:11:00 -0000

i m planning to buy lumia.....is it reli doin fine!?!

Re: iPhone 4 vs Nokia Lumia 800 – 24 hours later

Gus Fraser — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:58:18 -0000

Here is one: http://www.nokia.com/gb-en/sup...

Re: Taking SharePoint Offline – SharePoint Best Practices Conference

Gus Fraser — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:57:07 -0000

SharePoint Workspace manages the sync between local machine & SharePoint (it also uses the Microsoft Office Upload Center). Files are stored locally (can be encrypted using BitLocker). Document/Content Type properties must be edited from the client (i.e. Office - Word, Excel etc.). List metadata/properites can be managed with SharePoint workspace, conflicts will be reported by SharePoint Workspace and the user may resolve them.

Re: Taking SharePoint Offline – SharePoint Best Practices Conference

Artur — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:40:15 -0000

Can you please share more information how you have achieved offline access to SharePoint. Do you store SharePoint documents locally next to your SharePoint Workspace? And sync both ways with their metadata?

Re: iPhone 4 vs Nokia Lumia 800 – 24 hours later

Bennett — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:40:35 -0000

i have just bought a lumina 800 does it come with a manual ??
mike

Re: So what does “The Cloud” mean now?

Maryam M. — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:05:15 -0000

Love this. Do you have a Twitter account? I'd love to follow you. Subscribing...

Re: Excel Services Web Access on Cloudshare

Daniel O'Leary — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:35:50 -0000

Hey Tom, Chris Riley might be able to help you out. Have you had a chance to get in touch with him? @hoardinginfo

Re: Excel Services Web Access on Cloudshare

Tom Resing — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:04:22 -0000

So it still doesn't work on my image, but I don't quite understand why. Must be something different, but I'll let you know if I figure it out. Thanks again for the great blog post and quick twitter response along with @hoardinginfo and @sharePointBits

Re: iPhone 4 vs Nokia Lumia 800 – 24 hours later

Gus Fraser — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:32:54 -0000

Actually I found that Contacts Transfer worked fine in the end - just used Bluetooth between devices!

Re: There are no logon servers available – Create Cached Credentials over PPTP VPN

Gus Fraser — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:30:58 -0000

Welcome - I really couldn't be bothered driving an hour to fix this either so had to find a workaround!

Re: iPhone 4 vs Nokia Lumia 800 – 24 hours later

Drsakari — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:04:54 -0000

If you have gmail account you can synchronise your contacts from Iphone/laptop to the mailaccount and then configure gmail on your lumia. It synchronises automatically with the account...

Re: There are no logon servers available – Create Cached Credentials over PPTP VPN

Saliya Ekanayake — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:37:56 -0000

Thank you very much. This saved me from driving to my university to just cache credentials :)

Re: SharePoint 2010 "The language of this installation package is not supported by your system"

Ioana Crisitna Oltean — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:27:05 -0000

Yay, thanks for the tip. Did the same mistake and extracted via WinRAR. You saved me a lot of trouble finding the solution to this.

Re: Lenovo W520 bricked & won’t turn on

Gus Fraser — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:54:37 -0000

Glad it helped. Beware of Power issues generally - I had to uninstall & re-install the Lenovo Power Controls after a series of Blue Screens. Also not good. The Lenovo Power Controls changelog actually mentions the BSODs... not really inspiring!

Re: Lenovo W520 bricked & won’t turn on

Lon — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:47:06 -0000

Wow, this worked for me too. I had let my battery go dead while in suspend mode on my new Lenovo w520 (also bought as a mobile dev rig). Then when I tried to use it later it was a brick, even on AC power. No indicator lights, no nothing. After a google search I found this article and tried the procedure above. .. Worked like a charm.

This is really weird though. I've had several laptops over the past decade and never heard of a problem like this. I'm sure there is an electrical engineer out there somewhere, probably jobless, regretting his design decisions.

Re: SharePoint Saturday UK – Intranet Branding… Why?

haroutk — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:04:17 -0000

This branding discussion around internal SharePoint sites is missing the primary objective of usability. As always, usability is a function of interaction design where we strive to understand user's goals and objectives.
Branding for external sites also must take this into consideration but for internal sites this becomes the primary objective of branding. If a branding project fails to meet these objectives they risk frustrating the user and making them feel stupid. Doing so will create apathy and disengage the user from interacting with the system and thus losing productivity.
So the real question to ask here is: "what does SharePoint do well in meeting the user's goals and where can it be improved to increase user engagement and productivity?"
From our experience with working on large and small intranet projects few things have come up consistently where SharePoint could use some help:

1. Surfacing relevant information for the user and providing efficient means for the user to act on it.
2. Fitting the mental models that users are familiar with (i.e. not thinking like a developer when creating systems)
3. Providing compelling interactions that delight the user.

We could probably spend days talking about these three but it's worth puttin' it out there :)
thoughts?

Re: SharePoint alternate access by IP address

Liakath Ali — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:59:44 -0000

I'm very interesting about this topic, I did this in my local environment, Its working in LAN. also i tried in Production server which is not in LAN but i am not able connect the site.. Can i do this in production server ? if so how to do ?

Re: SharePoint 2010 "The language of this installation package is not supported by your system"

Baldev Rawat — Mon, 16 May 2011 04:28:48 -0000

Thanks... I have extracted the files using WinRAR. I will give a try on this also.

Re: There are no logon servers available – Create Cached Credentials over PPTP VPN

Anonymous — Wed, 04 May 2011 17:14:19 -0000

Hot dog... I have struggling with this myself. Thanks.