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I'm back.
I have resurfaced from the underground. My new blog is at https://www.sharepointmadscientist.com
Date: 01/17/2009
SharePoint Customization Best Practices
At the SharePoint Best Practices Conference, there was quite a bit of interest in customization,...
Date: 09/22/2008
SharePoint and Virtualization - Better Together!
I'm really excited about virtualization and think it's the best way to streamline deployments and...
Date: 09/09/2008
The SharePoint Best Practices Resource Center is live!
Check it out. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb736746.aspx
Date: 08/28/2008
Improving SharePoint with SQL Server 2008
You might have noticed that SharePoint SP1 now supports SQL Server 2008 :-)...
Date: 08/19/2008
SQL Server 2008 is now officially supported!
Microsoft has announced SharePoint Products and Technologies 2007 (SP1) support for SQL Server 2008....
Date: 08/19/2008
I’m Speaking at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference
It’s official. I’ll be at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference September 15th – 17th in...
Date: 08/13/2008
Upgrading SharePoint SQL Servers to SQL Server 2008.
SQL Server 2008 is now released and is supported by WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 SP1 and above although we...
Date: 08/11/2008
SQL Mirroring Setup Made Easy
In an ongoing effort to simplify mirroring I've decided to post the scripts I use to setup mirroring...
Date: 07/31/2008
SharePoint 2007 Infrastructure Update Released
The SharePoint 2007 Infrastructure Update is a must have install including numerous performance and...
Date: 07/15/2008
Content Deployment Rollup has been Released
If you are using content deployment (aka prime) you will be happy to know that the rollup has been...
Date: 07/02/2008
Quick Blurb on SharePoint Deployment Best Practices
SharePointJoel, Doron Bar Caspi, and I were interviewed by TechTarget after our dizzying session...
Date: 06/25/2008
SharePoint Reporting - What's Up?
Joel and I had a lot of fun doing this video for TechEd Online about the state of SharePoint...
Date: 06/23/2008
The Canadians are Coming!
My new buddy, and PFE extrordinare from Canada, Roger Cormier is blogging now. I'm certain he will...
Date: 06/06/2008
I Made the List.
I'm number 65! https://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=31 Wow! That's super...
Date: 05/29/2008
It's Deep, Real Deep!
I was just reading Todd Carter's blog and man am I impressed. He's got some really good stuff on...
Date: 04/29/2008
Web Stress Test White Paper Published
Steve Smith, the MVP extraordinaire from the UK and part owner of Combined Knowledge along with...
Date: 04/16/2008
SharePoint = Job Security
Just in case you didn't get the memo SharePoint is the fastest selling server product in the history...
Date: 04/15/2008
Jason Cahill is In
It's rare for anyone from the actual SharePoint product group to blog so it's noteworthy when they...
Date: 04/13/2008
DPM Search Backup White Paper.
The DPM team released a whitepaper detailing how to backup MOSS search....
Date: 04/11/2008
SharePoint Training
Just learned of this great resource. The SharePoint Learning Resources Site. It's a little clunky,...
Date: 04/09/2008
File Shares and SharePoint. Still a Hot Topic.
I'm sometimes reminded that there is still a lot of debate over how to position file shares and...
Date: 04/08/2008
More Clarification Needed? Geographic Separation of SharePoint Farm Components.
I continue to hear questions and debate over how to build local or regional immunity into a single...
Date: 04/03/2008
Done with Training for Now.
I'm back in the office now after being out for a couple of weeks in a SQL Ranger rotation. The...
Date: 03/24/2008
Yank a Server from NLB when it fails?
It's about 30 minutes from the start of my session on H/A at the SPC. One of the things I...
Date: 03/05/2008
The Newest Version of the Database Mirroring Whitepaper for SharePoint has been released
Using Database Mirroring with Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services Wow! This one...
Date: 03/03/2008
Database Maintenance Whitepaper just published.
A very proactive Bill Baer has released his database maintenance whitepaper. There's some great...
Date: 02/29/2008
Sweet! I've been saying we need this....
OK, I had nothing to do with this, but it's definitely something I've been talking about. I think a...
Date: 01/24/2008
SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool Beta Released to Connect
Other noteworthy release in the capacity planning space today - Customers can now obtain the...
Date: 12/06/2007
THE Storage WhitePaper is Available.
Update: seems the link changed: New link is https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263261.aspx...
Date: 12/06/2007
SharePoint and Storage
There is lots of good information on how to optimize storage for SQL, perhaps too much. Some great...
Date: 11/18/2007
Mirroring and Bandwidth
I just completed some testing to see how much network bandwidth between SQL nodes affects...
Date: 11/16/2007
Where do you host the SSP and admin web apps?
SSP web app? Admin web app? By looking at the out-of-the-box options you can easily get confused....
Date: 11/15/2007
MSIT/MMS/BOSD SharePoint blog = SharePoint Goodness!
The MSIT blog is finally up and running. Check here for all the latest news and SharePoint tidbits...
Date: 11/09/2007
Technical Difficulties
Well after a very long week my blog is finally online again with all its content intact.
Date: 11/07/2007
BDC Performance Over the WAN
Are you centralizing your SharePoint deployment? Do you want to integrate backend data sources...
Date: 10/27/2007
SQL Aliasing Pros and Cons
I wanted to write a quick note on the good and bad of using SQL aliasing for redirecting SharePoint...
Date: 10/26/2007
Restoring SQL Server. Model DB Restore gotcha
If somebody would have mentioned this, I would have 3 hours back. When recovering SQL server from a...
Date: 10/25/2007
Testers Get Respect!
I saw this post and it got me thinking how difficult it is test anything. Testers deserve lots of...
Date: 10/24/2007
DPM, SharePoint, and Database Mirroring
Lately I've been working on System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 for protecting our SharePoint...
Date: 10/23/2007
Hosting Sites and Personal Sites in the Same Web App?
I just noticed that Joel was talking about personal sites configuration and I realized that I never...
Date: 10/22/2007
Are we planning for the wrong disasters?
I've been building a DR solution to protect against some major disasters. Earthquakes, tsunamis,...
Date: 10/22/2007
SharePoint by Day, SharePoint by Night @ SharePoint Connections in Vegas!
My buddy Andrew Connell has put together an informal SharePoint chat session. Coral Reef Bar in...
Date: 10/21/2007
Installing a SharePoint DR farm.
I wanted to post a quick overview of how to install a DR farm to protect your main farm by log...
Date: 10/21/2007
Heading to Vegas for SharePoint Connections Nov 5th-8th. See you there!
I'll be co-presenting 3 sessions at connections and have a lot of stuff to talk about and I can't...
Date: 10/20/2007
SharePoint and Mirroring: Taking action on failovers
You might have seen the database mirroring whitepaper for SharePoint. It mentions a great article...
Date: 10/19/2007
Quick note about index backup
As you may already know, the only way to restore an index without having to recrawl is to use the...
Date: 10/19/2007
Do Both. Now with more pics.
In a previous post, I talked about how I was working on implementing mirroring inside the datacenter...
Date: 07/31/2007
BTW... High Availability/Disaster Recovery and SQL Licensing
If like me you are looking to eak (sp) every dollar of costs savings out of your deployments take a...
Date: 07/30/2007