"From the Field"- Neil Thompson

Practical insights from actual customer engagements.

Symptom Event Type: Error Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3 Event Category: (964) Event...

Date: 03/26/2009

When specifying the SQL server, Configuration Database name and account for SharePoint you may see...

Date: 04/25/2008

This is a very basic sample of a service level agreement for SharePoint. This would be more typical...

Date: 04/23/2008

Call to action - What parts of governance for SharePoint do you want to hear about? I'll post new...

Date: 04/23/2008

There are many little "gotchas" with setting up incoming email for MOSS. Just nit picky little...

Date: 10/26/2007

Obligatory Introduction BAM is such a good name for this technology for a few reasons. The first is...

Date: 10/23/2007

Training Material Roadmap Author: Neil Thompson (neilth@microsoft.com)Site: Neil’s MSDN Blog...

Date: 10/16/2007

This posting is intented to complement the Training Roadmap for Office SharePoint Server 2007 with...

Date: 10/16/2007

This blog posting is a page designed to support basic feedback and management for the Training...

Date: 10/16/2007

I have had this recurring conversation with customers and partners. Clustering is not a simple...

Date: 09/21/2007

I've seen one too many BizTalk groups with poorly configured Host/Host Instances. So I've decided to...

Date: 07/31/2007

Introduction: This post is the first in a series of posts that will describe a number of production...

Date: 07/26/2007

This is a fairly common scenario after Windows 2003 SP1 (or greater) is installed, so I thought I...

Date: 07/05/2007

Office 2007 users want to see something cool? Save out a word 2007 .docx format, rename the file to...

Date: 06/19/2007

------------------------------------- Addendum – June 22 2007: Under absolutely NO circumstances...

Date: 06/19/2007