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I’m presently employed as Principal Infrastructure Architect at Content and Code, a leading British Microsoft Gold Partner for SharePoint Products and Technologies. I cut my teeth on SharePoint with the release of SharePoint Portal Server 2003, concurrent with my growth from Technical Support Manager to Infrastructure Architect for another British Microsoft Gold Partner. I’m an IT infrastructure generalist with specialist understanding of SharePoint, virtualisation, extranets and identity.

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  1. Lynn Watson
    30/07/2010 at 5:25 pm

    I have been searching for anything on exporting data from lists to access 2007 for the purposes of generating a report. We are currently using sharepoint 2007.

    I’m a user, not a developer – but currently with the corrective action system I am conducting UAT on, one thing to really bring this to a complete program would be to be able to export data to a report formatted for distribution not only internally but also to external vendors.

    Any guidance here?

    Thanks so much

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  2. Tristan Watkins
    02/08/2010 at 10:26 pm

    You should just be able to work with it directly in Access by opening the list. Or you could probably copy and past from the datasheet view (although you may lose version data). Is that sufficient? Or does this Microsoft article help? http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access-help/introduction-to-integrating-data-between-access-and-a-sharepoint-site-HA010131463.aspx

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  3. Karthik Reddy Chintaparthi
    02/02/2011 at 12:11 pm

    Hi Tristan,

    Is it possible to install Windows 7 Professional & Windows Server 2008 R2 on the same *laptop* using VMWare ? Also I want to do some practice on SP 2010 on the same laptop using SharePoint Foundation Server 2010.

    Am I doing it correctly ? Your guidance is much appreciated.

    Thanks much, Karthik

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    • Tristan Watkins
      03/02/2011 at 12:05 am

      Hi Karthik,

      I’m not sure I fully understand the scenario, but yeah, you can do multiple boots, with one running Hyper-V on Server 2008 R2 and the Windows 7 boot running VMware Workstation. You could also look in to Native Boot from VHD. If you want to install SharePoint locally then you don’t need the virtualisation technologies but it’s my preference to virtualise. You would need to run multiple boots or a virtualisation technology if you want separate environments for Foundation and Server.

      Cheers,

      Tristan

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  4. Arnold Villeneuve
    07/04/2011 at 11:43 pm

    Your articles on buildilng SharePoint 2010 environments within AWS are excellent.

    Arnold Villeneuve

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  5. Ben
    22/08/2011 at 1:51 pm

    hi there,
    do you know if SharePoint 2010 mobile supports X509 authentication?
    Thanks

    Ben

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    • Tristan Watkins
      22/08/2011 at 9:32 pm

      Hi Ben,

      Do you mean SharePoint Workspace in Windows Phone or a mobile view in a SharePoint site? If the former, I don’t think the client has a provision for a second factor. I can’t find anything like that in my phone and I’ve not seen that option detailed anywhere.

      If you mean just publishing a SharePoint site to mobile devices, then you should be able to achieve this through a reverse proxy, but you’d probably need to customise the logon form to support the certficate as a second factor. If you actually mean using the certificate as the only means of authentication then you might be able to whip up something custom, probably involving a reverse proxy still, but there’s no obvious out-of-the-box way to achieve this that I’m aware of. Hope this helps.

      Cheers,

      Tristan

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  6. Ben
    22/08/2011 at 1:52 pm

    my email should be ttsdb@hotmail.com. just to make sure

    Ben

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