The past couple of weeks I'm working with Silverlight controls embedded in SharePoint 2007. For one of the controls I need to retrieve the data using the Search Query Web Service. This was working perfectly in the development environment. But when deploying the control to the production environment it didn't work.

With the introduction of the August Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2007 (KB973399) we encountered “System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.” on all pages inheriting from MySitePublicWebPartPage.

Stefan Goßner reminds us of the fact that support for WSS 3.0 SP1, SharePoint 2007 SP1 and Project Server SP1 will soon end.

I was having trouble with the clock in my Linux Hyper-V VMs. The time was constantly drifting forward. Using NTP only slowed the drift a bit down but often NTP gave up after several days.

I’m running Linux in Hyper-V VMs since the launch of the Windows Server 2008 RTM. It was quite complex to get performance and support for the network drivers. Recently with the launch of Windows Server 2008 R2 there are also new Linux Integration Components which also work for 2008 RTM. Here is the list of steps to install CentOS with these components.

Learn how I solved the problem of the Remote Desktop Client not using stored credentials due to a local policy setting, and simplified my RDP connections.

After having major, and unsolvable, problems with MovableType (MovableType was causing segfaults in Perl) for over half a year I finally switched to WordPress for hosting my blog.