Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download

There’s a lot of new tech coming out at the moment. It feels like Christmas. Here’s one that’s worth a look  Chromium OS (The Chromium Projects) better know as Google Chrome OS is now available as a VMWare Virtual machine courtesy of gdgt get it Here

SharePoint 2010 Beta – allowInsecureTransport Installation Issues

My first attempt at getting the new SharePoint 2010 beta installed and working had mixed results. I built a clean Windows server 2008 R2 Virtual Machine and followed all the installation steps to the letter. SharePoint installed and a lot of stuff worked but I couldn’t get any of the SharePoint service applications working.

Digging into the logs I could see the error invalid attribute "allowInsecureTransport="true" in the web.config for all service applications. Hmmm.

It turns out there is a WCF HotFix you have to install, (at the moment there is no Windows Server 2008 R2 version) for other OS versions – You can download the hotfix from here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkID=160770

In fact there are quite a few extra steps you need to do before you get a good install. These are covered in Jie Li's GeekWorld Installation Notice for SharePoint 2010 Public Beta and now on also on Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog Path to User Profile Synchronization success in SharePoint 2010 Beta

I must admit I’m a bit surprised that Microsoft released the Beta without this either being fixed or documented as a known issue. I’m not sure what the truth of it is but it does give the impression that a standard “next, next, next” type install was not tested before being released.

UPDATE: Resolved you can download the Patch for R2 here

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SharePoint 2010 Public Beta Available on MSDN

The public betas of SharePoint 2010, Office 2010, SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visio 2010 are now available for download on MSDN Subscriptions

At last! now we can all get a look. Having been through the beta stages of SharePoint 2001, 2003, 2007 and now 2010 this will be my 4th Major SharePoint beta!

Windows Live Writer 2009 – Installing on Windows Server 2003

I like windows Live Writer 2009. Its a great little tool for writing blog posts but… by default it won’t install on Windows Server 2003.

Luckily I found at great workaround at NewbTech blog. 

Windows Live Writer 2009 – Installing on Windows Server 2003 ~ Newb Tech

Now if only there was a version for Mac OSX.

SharePoint Silverlight WebPart Update

I've updated my SharePoint Silverlight WebPart. It now works with Silverlight 3.

You can download a copy from http://www.triplewood.com/silverlight