You are invited to the 3rd Houston Microsoft Business Intelligence User Group meeting – no RSVP is necessary.  This event will take place on Tuesday July 19th, 2011 from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. at the Microsoft Houston Office  (location and map below).Learn the latest and greatest in BI – along with practical advice for [...]

Houston Area SQL Server User Group Meeting

by InsourceTech

The Houston Area SQL Server User Group will be meeting on July 12, 2o11. Topic: How Solid State Drives Saved an Unstable Application Speaker: Raul Salas, Stonebridge Consulting Live Meeting Link: http://bit.ly/H9ko5P

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Client Spotlight: YES Prep Public Schools Leverage Aruba MOVE and Microsoft Lync

by Jonathan Gardner

Insource has had the opportunity to work with some amazing clients and YES Prep Public Schools is certainly one of them.  YES Prep is a charter school system in Houston, TX serving low-income neighborhoods throughout the city with a current population of more than 4,200 students.  Surmounting steep odds, YES Prep has a 99% graduation [...]

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Grant Permissions to Uniquely Secured SharePoint List Items

by David Dean

Have you ever run into a situation where you have a bunch of uniquely secured documents or list items and you need to grant permissions to an additional group? Unfortunately, once you have broken the permission inheritance chain on an item, it will no longer pick up any new permission assignments made to its parent. [...]

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Listing Sub-sites with the Table of Contents Web Part

by David Dean

A common requirement when designing an intranet portal is to show a site map listing the hierarchy of content within the full portal. Often, the home page of a site includes a set of links to all of the sites underneath the current site. The Standard and Enterprise editions of SharePoint Server (both MOSS 2007 [...]

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Dynamics CRM Online 2011 – Issues with SharePoint Integration

by David Dean

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online 2011 provides a Document Management feature that integrates with SharePoint 2011 to allow CRM users to interact with documents stored in a SharePoint site. You can link entities in CRM (e.g. Accounts, Leads, etc.) with corresponding document libraries and folders in SharePoint. CRM will automatically create folders for instances of an [...]

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Exchange 2010 SP1 Encryption

by Jim Glore

Back when Microsoft RTM’d Exchange 2010 one of the new features is that the communication channel between Outlook and Exchange was encrypted.  After installing Exchange the feature was enabled by default and then all you had to worry about was Outlook.  By default encryption was enabled if you were running Outlook 2007 or 2010, but [...]

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