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I came back, so should you!
As many of you know, I left CloudShare almost 11 months ago. But the whole time I was gone I could not stand it, so I came back. If you were a ProPlus subscriber who…
How to Use the Same Autogrowth Value for SharePoint Content Databases
As a SharePoint professional, there are some configuration options you should know about in order to ensure good performance in your SharePoint 2013 deployment. One of these configurations is the Autogrowth size for content databases…
Testing in the Cloud – Podcast with DotNetRocks
(Last updated in 2018) Are you familiar with DotNetRocks? If not, either you are not a .NET Developer, or you’re just not cool. Just kidding. Here is my summary of a podcast I did with…
Site Policies in SharePoint 2013
One of the new, and lesser-known, jewels included as part of SharePoint 2013 is the ability to define site policies. SharePoint 2010 allowed you only to create policies attached to content types or at a…
Dev/Test In The Cloud – It Should Just Work
I should not have been surprised. The session was on “Building Your Dev and Test Sandbox with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services”, not best practices, interesting use cases, or automation for dev/test environments in Azure. It…
How Release Cycles Impact Marketing
Most developers couldn’t care less about go-to-market strategy. In fact, I’ve heard from a few developer buddies their total frustration with their marketing department, “always asking for random things” and “they always slow down my…
Developer Productivity Is …
We all have our favorite work tools. For sales teams it’s their CRM, for operation folks it’s their ERP package, for the knowledge worker it’s their Email client. But for the developer it’s their IDE….
What’s New in Office Development Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Preview – Part I
In my last article for the CloudShare Community Blog, I described step-by-step how to install Visual Studio 2013 Public Preview (VS 2013 Public Preview) in a CloudShare environment. In today’s article I will describe some…
Installing Visual Studio 2013 Public Preview in a CloudShare Environment
A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft released the first public preview of Visual Studio 2013 (VS 2013 Preview) which includes a lot of new goodies including a new version of Office Tools for Visual Studio…
A New Way to Manage Your Resources (and Costs) in the Cloud
Are you tired of doing multi-variate calculus to understand your Azure or Amazon (AWS) bills or overages? One of the big advantages customers experience from using CloudShare is keeping their infrastructure costs low by being…
What I Learned from the Text Analytics Market
While, I was not really lost the last 9 months, I was diving into a new space that is very interesting. Here are my thoughts from the Text Analytics market… A quick glance at my…
How to Change SharePoint Compatibility Range at the Web Application Level
In terms of backwards compatibility, SharePoint 2013 provides great support allowing you not only to run SharePoint 2010 migrated sites without switching to a SharePoint 2013 mode, but also to create site collections in two…