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Month: June 2011

Office Web Apps Service Pack 1 is here!

Office Web Apps Service Pack 1 is here!

It has almost gone overlooked, but Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 are not the only products to get a Service Pack 1 release today.  I know that the Office Web Apps are a bolt on to SharePoint 2010 and so they don’t get a whole lot of attention, but from an end user feature enhancement perspective, I am almost more excited about the Office Web Apps SP1 than anything else released today (Office 365 not withstanding). Sourced directly from Microsoft’s…

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SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 is here!

SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 is here!

Today Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010 which is a rollup of all previous Cumulative Updates through April 2011, which means that deploying directly on top of RTM bits supported, as well as number of stability, performance, and security enhancements based upon customer feedback.  There is a detailed white paper that about the Service Pack that can be found at this location.​ ​ CAVEAT: Microsoft strongly recommends installing the June 2011 Cumulative Update immediately after the installation of…

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SQL Server Default Trace

SQL Server Default Trace

In every version since SQL 2005 there has been a “background trace” enabled by default on all SQL Server installations.  This was a bit of a shocking revelation to me, as I am not a DBA, since every time I have called Microsoft dozens upon dozens of times and talked to tier 3 support / product team members for SQL Server and none of them have mentioned this fact when we have been diagnosing issues in SQL.  We have always…

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