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New Year, New Projects, No New Resources? Just Add Time
Happy New Year! And happy week of realizing resolutions, pitching new ideas, restarting projects, and revisiting old opportunities. Let’s hope everything goes to plan! For Cloudshare users, particularly those in development and IT, new ideas…
How to deal with permissions in SharePoint using the Client Side Object Model and PowerShell
This time I am sharing a PowerShell script about how to get the list of all SharePoint Groups and all the users per group in a SharePoint site using the Client Side Object Model in…
Automate your Failure Process
“The end result is a … new system that, if actually deployed, will leave our country more vulnerable than the existing yet flawed system in operation today” Dept. Homeland Security, August 2008 Project name: Railhead…
What Happens when the Internet has more than Doubled?
Cloud service providers are notoriously cautious when discussing outages, service levels, and SLAs. While many trumpet “strength” the perceived risk remains. And it is only reinforced by the massive scale and duration of recent service…
VM Environment Template Updates — Visual Studio 2015 & More!
CloudShare’s VM environment templates are one of the easiest way to start a project – grab a pre-configured virtual machine or an entire multi-machine environment, and skip straight to the customization. The CloudShare template team…
How to Bulk Provision Active Directory Users in a CloudShare Sharepoint Environment
A CloudShare hosted environment is a great way to quickly and easily provision virtual machines for demo and testing. In order to present realistic demo and test scenarios you will want a variety of Active…
Installing Visual Studio 2015 Preview Step by Step in a CloudShare Environment!
(Last updated in 2018) As you know, Microsoft is currently working in a new version of Visual Studio named Visual Studio 2015. It is currently available as preview in this URL. In this article I…
Templates are on the menu! (where they always were)
Today we made a simple change – public availability of environment templates. This means you can search and access all of our environment templates directly from the Showcase. If you already have a Team or…
Build, Test, Repeat!
Building test environments should be easy — not just simple if it’s a simple configuration, or simple for experienced IT. When on-premise infrastructure, legacy code, and new projects are involved, building and testing becomes complicated….
SharePoint 2013 & SharePoint Online: How many site templates do I have available?
A common decision we have to take when we need to create a Site Collection or a Site in SharePoint 2013 OnPremises or SharePoint Online is about the base site template we are going to…
Test Full Production Systems without Touching Production Data!
Where to Begin, How to Begin? When developers need to start playing with new technologies, or testing against requirements, they can’t just begin. Setting up in preparation for a new deployment requires both time and…
How CloudShare’s Virtual IT Labs Helps the Sharepoint Community
(Last updated in 2018) Business groups across the enterprise are competing for, or lack access to, IT resources customized for their specific objectives. With CloudShare’s virtual IT labs, users get immediate access to infrastructure resources…