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 a lot. In my infrastructure, I host my a MOSS...

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 interesting. I often thought back on topics we could...

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 setup Unattended DC promo Active Directory preparation...

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, knowing their work will deploy more easily, and...

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 comes from Scot Hillier, one of the most respected...

Hi, Now that you know how to setup Office 2007 (Enterprise in previous post), you’re able to setup SharePoint Designer 2007, Project Pro 2007 and Visio 2007. It’s just a question of reapplying the process and creating the right files. I stay on MSP approach for SharePoint Designer. Here’s the...

Hello, In the previous post, I described how to setup Windows Server 2003 an unattended way. Now, I'll describe how to transform this server in a Domain Controller. It's quite simple; just use an answer file, as an argument to the dcpromo.exe instruction. Now, like all answer files, a lot of...

Hello, To setup Windows Server an unattended way, you have 3 options: Sysprep RIS (Remote Installation Services – named Windows Deployment Services (WDS) in Windows Server 2008) 1 answer file I will use the answer file. To create an answer file, insert or mount a Windows Server 2003...

Hello, Previous post discussed the different options (mandatory and others) you needed to evaluate before setting up a SharePoint development environment. In the next series, I plan to explain one way to create this an automated way (or unattended). To do so, I made these decisions for the environment...

Hello, Recently, I advised customers on their development environments. Many different options are possible and each choice done brings benefits and limitations. In this post and few others to follow, I will discuss the main options, with their impacts, and then describe how to automate the setup...

Hello, During various engagements, I recommend now the integration of Infrastructure Update for any new fresh farms setup of SharePoint products (either WSS v3 or MOSS 2007). If applicable, of course, as it depends of customers’ scenarios and current installed base. This is the best way to enable...

Last week, Microsoft bi-annual biggest technical internal event took place at Seattle: TechReady. It was 7 th edition of this incredible technical readiness opportunity where products groups and field people meet. This one was my 4 th TechReady, but it was the first on 2 aspects : attending...

Hello, Rob Silver wrote a post few days ago on "Design and Build Sites for Office SharePoint Server 2007". You can find the post here : http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/01/25/announcing-design-and-build-sites-for-office-sharepoint-server-2007.aspx It's hosted on one of the most...

Hello, Here we are. The idea to share the knowledge gathered through projects, customers, and fun questions imagined to push SharePoint to its deeps roots, was here for weeks. My tema and I came to the idea that blogging could benefit the community on how we helped adoption and solution design of...