In simple terms, the quorum for a cluster is the number of elements that must be online for that cluster to continue running. In effect, each element can cast one “vote” to determine whether the cluster continues running. The voting elements are nodes o… more »

This post explains how you can create your first SharePoint 2007 ASP.NET application. more »

This walkthrough provides the steps for creating a basic custom Web Part that can be added to your site pages. It is a simple Web Part that enables the user to define a custom message that is displayed inside the Web Part. more »

This post is for those that don’t keep up with SharePoint as some of us do and may not realize how the development experience has improved so much. more »

Prior to Microsoft Office 2010, the only way to customize context (right-click) menus in the Microsoft Office Fluent Ribbon user interface (UI) was by using CommandBars solutions. In Office 2010, you can customize built-in context menus just as you can… more »

In Microsoft Word 2010, you cannot change the Print command on the File menu by using a macro. When you create and then run a macro that is named "FilePrint," the Print dialog box appears unexpectedly. more »

Many customers wish to pre-configure items that are “pinned” to the Start Menu in their Windows images. Also, since items can now be pinned to the new Taskbar in Windows 7, customers will want to configure “pinned” items there as well. more »

15 Photoshop Custom Shapes of web icons, buttons and logos. more »

This article describes step-by-step instructions for how to disable certain Microsoft Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) components in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Vista. more »

10 DIY SharePoint Web Parts is a series of postings containing examples of SharePoint WebParts that anybody can build all by themselves. more »

Some basic techniques for creating and using List View Web Parts to display and manipulate list data in your SharePoint site. more »

This article is for beginners who are quite new to SharePoint web part development and want to learn about configuring WSS 3.0, developing web parts using Visual Studio 2008, deploying and publishing web parts and finally debugging a web part. more »

YouTube: Learn how to create a Visual Web Part for SharePoint 2010 by using Visual Studio 2010 more »

Command Line examples that can be executed in the ESXi 4.1 Technical Support Console. more »

"There are a number of NT disk defraggers on the market, including Winternals Defrag Manager. These tools are useful for performing a general defragmentation of disks, but while most files are defragmented on drives processed by these utilities, some f… more »

I am yet to try this out but it sounds promising. I have some old Mac G5s that are sitting collecting dust.  The reason why is becuase they are PowerPC and not Intel - what a shame. I figured that we could throw some external storage onto the boxes an… more »