SharePoint in the wild
Recommendations and advice for common challenges
SharePoint 2013 - Export Index a la Crawl Log
I ran into an issue where I was replacing a competitor's search service. I needed to provide...
Date: 08/15/2014
Securing SharePoint: Harden SQL Server in SharePoint Environments
As more and more sensitive data is stored in SharePoint, we find ourselves with a new requirement:...
Date: 10/14/2013
Move a Web Application to a new Application Pool
A colleague sent me a great question today: "Instead of consolidating application pools, how do I...
Date: 08/29/2013
SharePoint 2007 Upgrade – Identifying Customizations
During an upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to 2010, knowing where custom webparts and features are...
Date: 06/11/2013
SSL Sites with Hostnames in SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013
As you implement SharePoint in your security-conscious enterprise, you'll run into a scalability...
Date: 06/07/2013
SharePoint 2010 Architecture and Disaster Recovery – when to use UPRE and when to log ship
The SharePoint 2010 Database types and descriptions TechNet article was recently updated (March 5th,...
Date: 03/07/2013
Find all list items with multiple values used
I was working with Russ today and an interesting question came up: If a user had a list with a...
Date: 07/26/2012
Hyper-V Slow Host Network - How to Fix
Last week I installed the latest version of Windows 8 RP; I was really excited to see Hyper-V and a...
Date: 06/11/2012
Database Attach breaks Alerts and the fix!
I got a query from a colleague about Alerts and went to test it. To my surprise, my test Alerts...
Date: 01/03/2012
Post June 2011 CU Move-SPProfileManagedMetadataProperty BUG - and the workaround
If you're upgrading from SharePoint 2010 and following the post upgrade steps from Perform...
Date: 11/22/2011
Changing the Application Pool on a Web Application the right way
I was working a farm today that had 10 web applications, all with their own application pool. As we...
Date: 08/31/2011
Virtualization, the SAN and why one big RAID 5 array is wrong.
Today I've had no less than 3 ad hoc conversations about disk sharing for VMs. This isn't about...
Date: 08/23/2011
First Blog Post
Well, this is my first blog post. This blog is designed to consolidate my ramblings and thoughts...
Date: 08/23/2011