At a TechEd or ITForum conference about a year ago, I was approached after a Q/A session. The attendee asked, what is the one place I should be going on SharePoint? Since I joined the Marketing team I've been preaching a one place for IT Pros. Since...

Having been involved in a number of deployments, there are some key things to consider. Here are some of my key deployment considerations to governance & management. Quota - to encourage storage management, if not manage your disk space and...

You most likely won't upgrade to SQL 2005 exclusively for end user performance reasons. There are some interesting performance tests here... Here’s my top 5 and beyond in relation to Operating a SharePoint Products & Technologies (2003-2007...

Haven't seen anything posted on password changes on the web. Here's some steps that I've come across from the lab managers that should come in handy. I'm sure someone updating a large farm will find these useful and likely find ways of optimizing or scripting...

Great news for those down under. I happen to be taking some personal time in the greatest city in the world, according to Conde Nast Traveller Readers Choice awards. Even on personal time, I couldn't resist meeting up with the SharePoint User groups and...

Thanks to Brad and Arun... By default in SPS 2003 you created site collections when creating sites. In MOSS 2007 you get sub sites listed under the site collection, it's great for navigation and seamless integration. Even with navigation you can...

If you've ever tried to deploy an application to a global company and had to determine where to deploy your servers I empathize with you. I came up with a basic model based on someone elses model for having network and client performance discussions...

I'm signed up with Andre Heymann, Microsoft IT Technologist, doing a pre-conference seminar on Managing SharePoint at IT Forum 2006 in Barcelona, Spain... Nov 14-17. Andre and worked together early in the SPS 2003/WSS v2 cycle. We both spoke last year...

Avoid that COLD, SLOW request that baffles users... Ever thought things on ASP.NET were a bit slow the first time accessing them? Many of you are aware that ASP.NET from a web admin perspective know that things have to recompile and things just aren...

Over the next couple of months, I'm working on Governance and Manageability. It's been consuming my life for the past couple of months as well. It's a big deal. It's sometimes tough to get your arms around. As far as this topic goes, I'm also working...

Planning, Designing & Securing an Extranet and Internet Facing WSSv3 and SharePoint Server 2007 Environments Note: Many of these resources require the beta 2 control or that your client is running Office 2007 beta 2 or higher. You can download...

I was chatting with some guys on the floor earlier last week about a Deployment kit which some how went out as a "Discovery kit". I hadn't heard about it and was curious what it was about. They were talking about some strong efforts around a deployment...

When I was listing off my favorite tools. I purposely didn't mention one that I used a ton for farm and rollup metrics and even troubleshooting perf & usage based issues. I was looking for it the other day and found it back on their web site, they...

I think my a post or second hand PPTs in the past may have confused some people about a capacity planning recommendation I've made. I have in the past said to plan for 50GB databases. This is not a scalability limit. Based on a recent thread with some...