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Calling all Corporate IT
Not only do we believe in collaboration features in our product, we believe in collaboration when designing our product! We are on the hunt for individuals who work in Corporate IT of medium sized companies….
How to share files between your local PC and a CloudShare Environment!
One common request when you are working with a remote SharePoint 2010 environment (either virtualized or not) is the ability to easily share or copy files between your local PC and the server machine. For…
Merge your CloudShare accounts – taking advantage of multiple environments
You may have heard, CloudShare recently announced an awesome new feature allowing you to have multiple environments under a single login. But what happens if you already have multiple accounts? The benefits of multiple environments…
How to use a CloudShare shared environment at least 14 days
One of the most powerful capabilities of CloudShare Pro Plus offering is the ability to share a ready to use virtual machines environment with others by means of the permalink functionality. Basically, a permalink is…
CloudShare Grows With You! – Announcing Multiple Environments
Now your CloudShare account can grow with you and your organization. Have as many environments as you need when you need them. Assign environments to developers. Control who sees what environments. Grant and remove access…
Using Claims Authentication to Configure Multiple Authentication Providers in a CloudShare Environment
CloudShare’s very own Chris Riley recently shared an environment of mine in a blog post about network orchestration. This environment leverages some exciting new capabilities in SharePoint 2010: namely Claims Authentication in a SharePoint 2010…
Designing Content Management in SharePoint
I’m not just a CloudShare’er, I’m also an ECM pro, hence all those crazy acronyms after my name IOAp, ECMp, CAPTUREp etc. Before joining CloudShare, and discovering the power of Dev/Test in the Cloud, my…
Network orchestration: VPN, Federation, Integration
Part of the power of CloudShare Environments is that once setup, it’s not much different than having the machine right in-front of you. The primary difference is that you access your machine via a browser…
Accessing SharePoint sites with CloudShare Web Access
As I mentioned in my first guest post in CloudShare’s blog, and also in my Spanish blog, a very interesting and emerging approach for creating and setting up a functional SharePoint development machine just for…
Development and Test in the Cloud: Your First Aid Kit
(Last updated in 2018) Good thing I love my CloudShare team, as I have to drive an hour and 15 minutes every day to reach them. To make this drive tolerable, I use radio. When…
Work less, play more?
“Chris, relax!” is something I hear a lot. On my honeymoon these past two weeks, it is not a big surprise that relaxing has been a challenge. After all, I am writing a blog post…
Collaborate to Collaborate
One of the primary uses of the SharePoint platform is in the area of document collaboration. This is where SharePoint originally found its success and has since evolved into a more robust platform. The convenient…