Janik von Rotz

Replicate term set changes for managed metadata navigations

This post is a supplement to Limitations and workarounds for managed metadata navigation for multiple site collections.

According to my last post I’ve updated the navigation for all my site collections to use a term set with pinned terms from the global navigation term set. What I didn’t was the fact that changes in the global navigation term set won’t be applied to pinned terms in other sets.

To apply this changes I’ve written a simple PowerShell function that repins the global navigation terms on the allocated navigation term set.

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Turn Down for What

This is … weird?!

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My Dogecoin experience part 1 - Mining Hardware

Based on a internet meme and funded as a joke the Dogecoin crypto currency is getting really serious about their business.

Just for fun I’ve bought some computer hardware to mine some doges.

Here’s a list of hardware I’ve bought in case you’re also interest in this crypto currency mining stuff.

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Office 365 DirSync do not import disabled users

One of my clients mentioned that he follows people in the newsfeed who weren’t employed any more.

Occasionally we disable the this kind of users in the Active Directory but don’t delete them.

It seems that DirSync doesn’t filter disabled accounts.

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O3M 39 - Whatever you like (Electro, House)

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Adobe Lightroom switch from jpeg raw workflow to single raw

I don’t know since when I started to make photos in jpeg and raw. Also don’t know the reasons for doing that any more.

I’ve made the decision to change my photography workflow from whatever to: take a photo in raw > import it to Adobe Lightroom > processing in Lr > export to specified format > publish for a project.

Last week I decided to drop all jpegs when there’s also a raw file in Adobe Lightroom.

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Why you shouldn’t disable Adblock

Let’s face it, there are people (count me in) who dislike any kind of advertisement. I really get annoyed of any kind of pop-up flashing attention distractions adverb on sites I’m visiting.

The solution is simple, just download Adblock Plus and you’ll never see them again.

You want to know why I’am writing about this?

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Netwars Project - Today’s IT threads well explained

This time I want to tell you about the netwars project. It’s a fact based cross platform experience exploring the impending threat of cyber warfare.

There’s a web series, tv production, digital graphic novel and soon an audio book will be released.

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SharePoint PowerShell remoting double hop scenario

PowerShell remoting can be difficult to understand. There are many things to configure and unknown limitations. With multiple server to access from one remoting session it gets even more difficult.

For example my latest issue with a three tier SharePoint environment. I thought I configured everything correctly:

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Install HHVM

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/10816750.

Introduction

HHVM is an open-source virtual machine designed for executing programs written in Hack and PHP. HHVM uses a just-in-time (JIT) compilation approach to achieve superior performance while maintaining the development flexibility that PHP provides.

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