Hello, Few months ago, I started a project I wanted to build for years: getting my hands dirty designing and building the necessary equipment to push IT automation and Industrial Engineering cross feedings. So I started to build a rack of servers...

Hi, While I focus on bringing SharePoint on top of cloud technologies customers can use, the SharePoint engineering and product teams released SharePoint 2013 Preview , more than 1 month ago. Preview is a marketing name for one of the Beta release...

Hi My basement allows me to run a mini digital plant at home. (Smile). Even if electrical power is pretty cheap in Quebec province (thanks to hydraulic electrical plants), you may want to have a look at the power plan your servers currently run...

Hi, When you work on various platforms, and change frequently your infrastructure settings, you may want to see how the servers react to these giving the platform some time to live with it. But you may also want to monitor and check that, after...

Hi, As you may have read in some of my previous posts, I spent the first 7 months of 2010 contributing to the SharePoint Online standard 2010 infrastructure. This infrastructure will provide SharePoint 2010 based services to tens of millions of people...

Hi, Most of you know the long and pretty complicated list of SharePoint 2010 prerequisites. To help having them in place, we have the PrerequisiteInstaller.exe program. But what if you want to test they are present ... on a remote server using a...

Hi, Opalis 6.3 is the new kid on the block. This version was just released last Friday and it really rocks ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/archive/2010/11/19/announcing-the-rtm-of-opalis-6-3.aspx ) You may wonder: "Why talking about...

Hi, In one of my last posts, I quickly explained I worked in the SharePoint Engineering team for few months. The experience was amazing, though pretty challenging. I found out a lot of things on a lot of topics, but I loved meeting smart, dedicated...

Hello, While in the Building 16, I worked on the mix of SharePoint with Cloud/Online services. Some may be interested understanding our branding options, as Microsoft is in. The best place to understand Microsoft Cloud story is this site: http://www...

Hi, Not a lot of people, except few colleagues, knew about that, but I had the unique and incredible opportunity to work directly within the SharePoint Engineering team for a while. This " unique" mission started on 1/4/2010 and lasted for 7 months...

Hi, There are few months I didn’t blog, and I am really sorry about that. The main reason for this is that I worked in SharePoint Engineering team for the last 6 months. I’ll give more details on that in a later post. Among the things...

Hi, This week I had the opportunity to speak at an internal technical readiness event that takes place at Seattle. This event is called TechReady, and last week was the 10th edition. I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to speak there on the...

Hello,   In my current project, I was having a Hyper-V R2 server box to play with and test various options and code with virtual machines. I recently learned the office I work in will be reassigned to someone else. That means loosing the Hyper-V...

Hello,   That’s a lots of weeks I didn’t post on the blog. I know, that’s not the first time, sorry guys. As an update on my last months, tasks, there is a lot to say and share. I’ve been very busy, and it’s not finished yet ….   First thing...

Hello, As you may know, SharePoint 2010 ships with Windows PowerShell. Being an automation geek, passionate by process, services and tools, I began to have a look at the INCREDIBLE possibilities brought by this architectural choice. To start, I...

Hi, As many of you learned, you can now setup SharePoint 2010 on a development workstation. It’s not supported for production, but for development, learning and demo that definitely rocks! As you may imagine, I tried this up and really have fun with...

Hi, As you may know, SharePoint 2010 is here. It was presented during SharePoint Conference 2009 that took place in Vegas few days ago. You can imagine I test and evaluate it internally for months now, but can only talk about it since few days....

Hi, Being a geek is expensive, even if you work at Microsoft. You always want to test, assess, and use the latest concepts and technologies. So hardware budget, and personal time consumption is very high. Being a real one (even if my budget is always...

Hi, Like few geeks at Microsoft, I host my own server infrastructure at home. Even if wife and sons do everything they can to bring it down (like complaining on the noise, or tearing the cables), I maintain this up and running, playing and learning...

Hi, Few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to express to the SharePoint Product Management team various ideas I have around SharePoint and IT Pros audiences. Based on my different experiences and engagements with customers, the discussion was very...

Hi there, For those of you following my little posts, you noticed I've been silent for the past 2 months. This happened due to personal issues with my new born son Tom. Tom is born on May 19th and he's really cute. Unfortunately, he arrived with...

Hi, Few months ago, I posted a little step-by-step tutorial to generate an ISO file to have a “ready to use” up to date source for MOSS 2007 setup ( this post is still here ). The setup of this binary source is VERY long, and I looked for ways to...

Hi, This long post series raised interest from many of you. Thanks for that. I was asked few times to provide a little synthesis and the scripts used, so here they are: Steps : Planning Decisions Windows Server 2003 unattended...

Hi all, From various customer engagements, few months ago, I realized Microsoft had to bring in one place a way to industrialize MOSS 2007 environments setup. Once available in a coherent and unified resource, it could benefit equally SP developers...

Hi, Last post of this long series. You definitely need to adapt your environment, with all these tools, to SharePoint development. Many references and advices exists in this area, from very strong people on SharePoint. The one I selected for me...