**Firstly at the time of writing this article this isn't an officially supported configuration so you are on your own for now – this may change in the future though ** I recently rebuilt my work laptop with the Windows 8 Release Preview (Build: 8400) and followed the same steps in the blog post by Guilherme...

  Thanks to all those who attended my session on patching at SharePoint Saturday. Here are the slides from my presentation:

  Many folks from the recent Melbourne SharePoint Saturday event were asking me about version table from my patching slides so here it is:   SharePoint Build Version October 2011 Cumulative Update 14.0.6109.5005 August 2011 Cumulative Update 14.0.6109.5002 June 2011 Cumulative Update Refresh...

  I was recently working with one of our large enterprise customers and they were experiencing rendering and performance related issues with Office Web apps in SharePoint 2010, specifically the word and PowerPoint viewing services. I did a bit of digging and changed some of the worker process/CPU...

  Here is an article that has just been published around updating/patching your farms with minimal to little downtime. We look forward to any feedback you might have on the article. This has been tested in our labs and we look forward to hearing from you around your experiences with performing patching...

  The following PowerShell script will get the patch level of your farm: 1: #gets the build string for a SP2010 FARM 2: Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted 3: Add-pssnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell -EA silentlycontinue 4:   5: $farm = Get-SPFarm 6...

This is a great article for those who want to get a SharePoint 2010 farm up and running quickly and easily. I am working on augmenting this process further by creating an installer that configures, builds a complete SharePoint 2010 farm with all services running. For now check out the following article...

The countdown has begun to the biggest SharePoint conference in Australia and the southern hemisphere. I am hoping to catch up with many partners and customers and as an added bonus, we have Arpan Shah from the core US SharePoint team as a keynote speaker. If you would like to have a chat with Arpan...

The following have just been published as part of the SharePoint 2010 RTM release. Happy reading! SharePoint Server 2010 capacity management: software boundaries and limits http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=66438e41-5733-448a-bd76-a8052b394fe2 SharePoint Server...

Here is a very basic script that will configure a barebones SharePoint 2010 farm. This isn’t designed for a production ready environment, but is great for a test lab and if you need to get something up and running very quickly. I am in the process of building something more enterprise ready and bulletproof...

The official announcement is here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2010/04/16/sharepoint-2010-reaches-rtm.aspx And for those wanting to know the official build, the version string is: 14.0.4763.1000. Congrats to the product teams involved! Its very exciting times and now to go an refresh all...

Check out the conference site to see the awesome line up of international and local speakers. Arpan Shah, Director at Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) who owns Technical Product Management for SharePoint Products and Technologies will be delivering the Keynote. The agenda also looks to cover a huge...

Its been a while since i have blogged as I have been doing heaps of client delivery work interstate. I got an email today notifying me that I have been accepted to be a speaker at the Australian SharePoint conference in June. Sweet! I will be presenting a session on “Hardcore” SharePoint architecture...