Leaving a legacy is the thing that I think so many people miss. Most folks think that you need money to leave a legacy so that folks will notice. I say that if your actions are such that of a servant leading others, then your legacy will be all the more true.
Think about your actions, consider your priorities, live your passion.
The other day I popped on Facebook and noticed in the stream of thoughts that are displayed something in Shannon Bray's postings that caught my eye. For those of you that don't know Shannon, he's a thoughtful guy that's darn sharp in the SharePoint field. What he shared was something that definitely hit home for me - the Wounded Warrior Project.
While I won't get into details of how it relates to me, I cannot stress enough how much we owe to our wounded warriors. The Wounded Warrior Project is definitely an organization that has well intentions and works to help those that have given so much for us as Americans in terms of our freedoms and liberties.
I urge you as Americans to do the right thing and support our Wounded Warriors through either the WWP financially or with your time through volunteering at one of the numerous events throughout the country. They have given on our behalf so selflessly, why is it that we find it so hard to give back something to them?
Take a moment and check out the WWP web site and consider how you can support...
The Wounded Warrior Project - http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org
Recently I was confronted with a SharePoint 2007 problem (yes, they do exist) that caused me to dig deep in my bag of tricks to pull out information regarding a KB article that I had used in the past to solve the exact same AD FS / SharePoint integration issue. So off I went to http://support.microsoft.com to pull the KB article and pull down the appropriate Office 2007 patch.
It only took a few minutes to find trust old 970230. This article of course points to yet another support article to gain access to the hotfix which contains the cumulative update - 969413. So off I went to the self service portal to pull the patch down from Microsoft - quick, efficient, mostly sanitary and best of all, self service, what more could I ask for?
After a few moments waiting for the transfer to occur, I received notification from Internet Explorer 9 that the file had completed downloading and that it may not be safe to run a program that was directly downloaded from the Internet. I disregarded this, knowing the source and that I had specifically requested this file... so I double clicked it and much to my shagrin was greeted by Error Code 110 during self extraction. Not even greeted with a "Please give me your password" message... :-(
The file extracted, but it was problematic and zero bytes for an executable never seems to work all that well when you're trying to patch a productivity platform like Office 2007.
A few minutes later I was hitting up the SharePoint community on Twitter, asking the community if anyone happened to have access to it or a spare copy sitting on their hard drive. Fortunately I received two quick responses, one from Todd Steele and another from Trevor Sullivan. And like that I was back up and running, applying the hotfix in my VM and testing it to ensure that it would remediate the behaviour of the issue faced. Problem solved! Amazing how the community can quickly work to help one another out.
But wait, there's more!
A little while later, I received a note from Scott Hoag, mentioning that perhaps using 7 ZIP to reach around the self extraction tool would work.
Thanks to all for the assists and for teaching me something new today with regard to 7 ZIP file extraction (as well as for providing a working copy from backup as well) :)
