Author Archives: J.D. Wade

About J.D. Wade

Lead Technical Cloud Architect, husband, active in community theatre, love watching movies, have been described as “quirky”, aka “KB Man”

MeasureUp downloaded exam not working

Posted on July 3, 2018 by J.D. Wade

MeasureUp provides practice exams which I use to prepare for Microsoft Certifications. One of their options for exams is the ability to download the exam and run it locally. I had trouble running them locally for quite awhile. I thought … Continue reading →

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Updated JD’s Version of the User Profiles Properties Worksheet for 2013

Posted on March 24, 2014 by J.D. Wade

About two years ago, I went through and made a spreadsheet containing all of the default user profile properties information from the User Profile Service (UPS). Well, I needed to do some work in SharePoint 2013 UPS and took the … Continue reading →

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Hitting the road to present

Posted on July 17, 2013 by J.D. Wade

I am looking forward to travelling to Indianapolis to present on August 10th at SQL Saturday Indianapolis. I haven’t been on the road for months to go and present so really looking forward to it. Presenting in the SQL community … Continue reading →

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Upcoming Presentation in St. Louis

Posted on July 10, 2013 by J.D. Wade

Just wanted to get the word out for SQL Saturday St. Louis which is occurring on August 3rd. Just like SharePoint Saturday, this is very inexpensive mini-conference here in St. Louis. There are going to be a bunch of great … Continue reading →

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SPC12: Just Around the Corner

Posted on November 9, 2012 by J.D. Wade

Happy Friday everyone! Well, this Sunday morning, I fly out of St. Louis to head to the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2012 in Las Vegas. Really looking forward to hanging out with friends and just being at the conference with over … Continue reading →

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Counting Usage of SP2010 UPS User Properties

Posted on September 11, 2012 by J.D. Wade

I needed to report on the usage count of particular UPS user properties such as Skills and Responsibilities. If you look at the property in Central Administration, you can see a usage count on the screen. This field is populated … Continue reading →

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Lync and SharePoint Integration: More Than Presence Information

Posted on April 4, 2012 by J.D. Wade

Today I had a conversation with a client who is investigating using an IM/UC vendor other than Microsoft. They let me know that the vendor said they integrate with SharePoint just like Lync because “they show presence information on SharePoint … Continue reading →

Posted in Microsoft Lync Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007), Microsoft SharePoint, Sharepoint Foundation 2010 (SPF 2010), Sharepoint Foundation 2013 (SPF 2013), SharePoint Server 2010 (SP 2010), SharePoint Server 2013 (SP 2013), Skype for Business, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) | Tagged , , | 15 Comments

User Profile Properties Worksheet: A More Useful Version

Posted on April 2, 2012 by J.D. Wade

In helping a group getting ready to launch My Sites and My Profile pages, I wanted to go through the User Properties and review their settings with this group. I went out to Microsoft to grab the MS version of … Continue reading →

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SharePoint Conference 2011 Recap

Posted on October 8, 2011 by J.D. Wade

Well, I am sitting here on the plane returning home to St. Louis, MO after a lovely week in Anaheim, CA. SharePoint Conference 2011 is finished. Many people are worn out and folks are going home with a lot of … Continue reading →

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MS Federated Search Connectors

Posted on October 27, 2010 by J.D. Wade

I just saw a series of new federated search connectors show up on my Microsoft Download site feed. I personally hadn’t heard anything about these being released but wanted to post the links to them and the description provided for … Continue reading →

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