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I recently published an article on ITSpark about installing SharePoint 2010 on SQL Server 2012. The article is in Romanian and can be read here.

After reading Julien Smith’s post How To Read a Book a Week , I was inspired by his commitment to read one book each week and thought I was a great idea. After previously reading this year David Allen’s Getting Things Done, I started to make a list of things I wanted to read. My Amazon wish list already contained: What Would Google Do by Jeff Jarvis so I gave it a go. It took me 2 weeks to finish it. Next, I read Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, a very interesting book. ...

I recently had the chance to work on a problem concerning permission to access a specific web page in SharePoint 2010. The error message that almost all of the users were getting was the generic “accessed denied” but using the Check permission button I could verify that the users had at least read permissions to access the site. Playing along with the permissions I noticed that users having Contributor rights were able to see the page while those with Read permissions did not. I then stumbled on this forum post which perfectly described my situation. ...

A few days before leaving overseas I was invited to talk about Private Cloud concepts with Tudy Damian (MVP, Virtualization) and Adrian Stoian (MVP, System Center). The recording is in Romanian and can be found here.

Last week I got the chance to brush my Mac skills and encountered the following problem. When using Mac OS X 10.6.* and PGP versions prior to 10.1.2 after upgrading the OS to the latest version (10.6.8) it would not boot anymore. This is a known bug in PGP which is fixed in PGP 10.1.2 or later. But, if you’ve already done the upgrade you can fix the problem pretty easily without the need to reinstall OSX. Here’s how: ...