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How to Enable Data Compression & Bandwidth savings in Google Chrome Mobile Application

A new feature in Google Chrome Mobile which allows you to enable compression to  save on data usage is available. To enable this feature the following needs to be done: If you don’t have Google Chrome installed – download it from the Play or App Store. Once you have it downloaded and installed open Google Chrome […]

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Installing Cumulative Updates for Exchange Server 2013

Tonight’s “home work” Assignment: Update  Companies Exchange 2013 to Cumulative Update 3 Purpose Address many of the issues that existed in Cumulative Update 2. Bring additional value to the company Oh and some of the newly introduced features / enhancements should help also: Usability improvements when adding members to distribution groups in the Exchange Administration […]

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SharePoint List View Lookup Threshold

Testing a pilot of a recent SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 upgrade I encountered a message reading: “This view cannot be displayed because the number of lookup and workflow status columns it contains exceeds the threshold (8) enforced by the administrator” This seems to be resource throttling introduced in the web application to limit the number […]

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Using Gmail as my SMTP server

In the past I use to host my own email server here at the SOHO of jermsmit.com.  Today I found myself in need of setting up alerts for some of my network based equipment. So I used Gmail (thanks Google) for this task. To make this work you need the following: A gmail account (make […]

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SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013, Content Database Upgrade

I have been working on upgrading SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013.  Here are some notes on steps taken to update a content database for your default web application. Please note:   A backup of your default (primary) SharePoint 2010 content database is needed. These steps are for those who have already installed SharePoint and have […]

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Uninstall of SQL fails with error about RsFx Driver

I was working on uninstalling installations of SQL 2012 and SQL 2008 R2 to later do a clean install of SQL 2012. All seems to be going relatively smooth until I encountered the following message: Warning 26003. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Setup Support Files cannot be uninstalled because the following products are installed: Microsoft […]