PonyCam or Raspberry Pi surveillance system
This was a super simple and not very expensive project. I needed a way to watch the ponies in the horse box whilst we are travelling. Obviously you can buy systems that do this, but they are expensive – starting at about £150 for a low end one .. and they can get as expensive […]
HCL Connections – Our Future is Now
On Tuesday I joined the HCL Connections – Our Future is Now call, thank you Mat Newman for tweeting about it as I had totally missed this was on. Wow there was a lot packed into that hour .. The highlights for me were: Tailored Experiences and the community updates Totally customisable spaces Built with […]
WP101 – Adding an image
Step by step guide to adding an image to a wordpress site. http://socialshazza.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/WP101_AddingImage.mp4
MS Teams stuck on dnd
Yesterday after an update and a reboot my Teams app was set to offline and no matter what I tried to do it was stuck. Not at all frustrating as I use Teams every day. My other office apps were working ok, and my status showed as online in the web version of teams. I […]
European Collaboration Summit was a blast
The European Collaboration Summit was last week in Germany. I am still fairly new to the world of Microsoft Conferences and user groups / community events, but the collabsummit was fantastic. Will about 2,000 attendees it is one of the biggest, if not the biggest community run events in the world. Jam packed with lots […]
We had an excellent time at Engage
Slightly delayed due to many conferences and travelling, here is my round up of Engage 2019. This year’s Engage was bigger than ever. In the amazing location of AutoWorld in Brussels – I have no idea how Theo finds these great venues year after year. With over 400 attendees, 1500 tweets, 88 speakers, 85 sessions, […]
May will be a busy month
I have been a bit quiet of late .. I have been a little busy – working hard at BCC, spending time with the family and the horses and booking my place at the Magic Run Weekend at Disneyland Paris (more about that in a later post) but May will be a busy month .. […]
Connections migration DB issues
DB20000I The RESTORE DATABASE command completed successfully.
SQL2519N The database was restored but the restored database was not upgraded to the current release
Official list of IBM 2019 Champions
Although the IBM Champions were announced just before Christmas the official list has now been published. Super proud to be included in this illustrious list again. I am in a handful of champs from the ICS brand that have been champions since the program started in 2011 for ICS. The program selects Champions annually based […]
HCL announce PartnerConnect Program
In the midst of all the news (or non news as they can’t really talk too much about the deal) of the HCL acquisition of ICS from IBM, the awesome people at HCL have announced the HCL PartnerConnect program. Registration will be open in January. A quote from the announcement “HCL will continue the critical […]