Welcome to my blog mainly about SharePoint
I decided to create another blog that is dedicated to one of my hobbies – photography. Over the next few weeks I’ll be uploading some highlights from over the last few years that I have been doing it. Some of the photos I have upload so far include my adventures at some SharePoint conferences (featuring [...]
If you have ever done any threaded programming in .NET WinForms you have more than likely run into the following error message at some point: InvalidOperationException was unhandled Cross-thread operation not valid: Control ‘’ accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on. This exception is normally displayed while running in [...]
We recently received the following error message when we attempted to build the cube within Project Server 2007: Failed to build the OLAP cubes. Error: Analysis Services session failed with the following error: Failed to connect to the Analysis Services server <server>. Error: ActiveX component can’t create object TechNet has an article (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197608(office.12).aspx) on this [...]
In 2008 I made a post about the infamous “locked for editing” message many people experience while using Office with documents stored in SharePoint. This post addressed the issue that can occur outside the normal “locking” mechanism Office and SharePoint. I recently had a problem where I attempted to edit an Excel spreadsheet and I [...]
Devon and Christina’s wedding was the very first wedding I have ever been hired to shoot. As an aspiring photographer I was extremely nervous but they had the confidence in me to pull it off. Without a doubt, this was the most stressful photo shoot I have ever done but I think it all came [...]
I ran into an issue attempting to get Project Sever 2007 working with SQL Sever 2008 Analysis Services and thought I would create a post about it in case other people are experiencing the same issue. The first thing to note is the article on TechNet are written as if everything is installed on the [...]
I would like to assume many people have heard of the SharePoint related site called SharePointMagazine.net, brought to us by Arno Nel (@arnonel). The SharePointMagazine.net site has a tremendous amount of great content from many guest authors and you should check it out of you have not already. So why this blog post? Well Arno [...]
I came across a service called ClusterShot a few months ago that gives photographers an outlet for selling their photos. The service allows a photographer to set a price but also accept offers. With the ability to import photos from other services such as RSS and Flickr it made it real easy for me to [...]
A few years ago after I experienced numerous hard drive failures and almost losing my entire photo collection I decided to invest in an online backup strategy. After evaluating a few options, I decided to go with IDrive and I have been extremely happy. It costs about $4.95 per month for 150 GB of storage. [...]
Swift Dixshun recently released his latest hip-hop album, “Accidentally on Purpose.” Why do I care? Although I am not the biggest fan of hip-hop, this album has some personal significance to me. My younger brother, Mark Liebrand, produced 2 songs and recorded about 6 others from this album. This is a momentous accomplishment for him [...]
