While UAG 2010 does work as a reverse proxy that can protect your web servers from many attacks, there are several limitations of which you should be aware before deciding to use UAG for all your reverse proxy needs. UAG 2010 excels at providing authenticated remote access to internal applications. It can even be used [...]
The Managed Accounts feature in SharePoint 2010 allows administrators to hand control of service account passwords over to SharePoint, reducing the need to manually track and change passwords. This is a major advance in security because administrators now have a tool to change those service accounts that are rarely changed otherwise. In two independent SharePoint [...]
Windows 7 clients require there to be a site at the root on SharePoint 2010 in order for Explorer View to work properly. If there is no root site and some clients get errors when trying to open Explorer View, try creating a root site.
At this point in time, Your organization most likely uses its website to deliver key business data to your customers. This could include the delivery of product marketing information, contact information, or product support documentation. Your product may be your website if you deliver your application in a SaaS or cloud based distribution model. As [...]
I recently had a client ask if additional categories could be added to the choice list in the SharePoint 2010 Calendar Web Part. These categories are in the pick list when you create a new calendar item from the SharePoint interface. This is how to change the categories: 1. Go to the calendar web part [...]
Let me start by saying this: I am not a fan of CoyotePoint load balancers. My support experiences so far have all been atrocious. The system architecture is a cheap imitation of F5′s BigIP architecture from a decade ago which constantly limits me. I’m convinced that people only buy these things because they’re cheap. I’ve [...]
I recently had the pleasure of helping out with a WordPress blog which had gone supernova. Within hours of being linked to from several major news sites, the server couldn’t stay up for 10 minutes without something terrible happening. Unfortunately, WordPress isn’t setup for high performance operation out of the box. Each page request is [...]