In previous articles I've talked about how important it it to have a governance plan. I think it works well to start from the other side of the coin on what happens without governance and "How to Create Intranet Chaos". Governance is really a top down...

I've heard such a huge variety of guidance around Index sizing. This is a topic that will have a huge swath, so its very important to understand your data or to be conservative. If you have the ability to resize later or add larger disks you may find...

I was on a call the other day with a customer and they were looking for prescriptive guidance for their global company. What was the right approach? What's the formula? How can I determine? Since the Geo Whitepaper hasn't been rev'ed yet. I figured I...

There have been a bunch of questions lately around Global Deployments. Here are some essential resources and some links. Multi Lingual Whitepaper for MOSS - Just released! Thanks Luca Global Deployment Whitepaper for WSS 2.0 & SPS 2003 -...

For Christmas I've been working on a very picture intensive Christmas card in word. Why should you care? Well, as I went along I used the new Microsoft Office Picture Manager included in Office 2007 to reduce the image file sizes. Many of the images when...

I love caching in MOSS! Combine this with secure web publishing and offloaded performance for static content and it can really make your site scale. If you haven't read up on the topic, check out these first... TechNet: Additional performance and...

I guess this has already been out for a month, but when I was running a x64 desktop with Office 2007 I was feeling the pain of not having the x64 WDS. Switching back and forth between Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 I really noticed a HUGE difference. I...

If you are running Scalable Hosting mode or Active Directory account creation mode for your WSS 2.0 environment your upgrade options are limited. You can only do database attach. Gradual upgrade doesn't work. I've heard how this has impacted internal...

Given the upgrade of WSS and MOSS may contain some customizations, IT Pros that are looking through TechNet may miss some great content that's actually in the SDK, something Server Admins don't usually think about cracking. The SDK has a lot of relevant...

Diacritic sensitivity is turned off by default in all SKUs. The diacritic sensitivity can be turned on with the following command line: Problem In short the search engine still treats Swedish characters as accents rather than individual characters...

Great Perf and Sizing Data from Lauri from the MSW Search Team. I'll send a link when their white paper goes live. This data came from a recent thread between Lauri and a customer asking some sizing questions. Understand this is raw and off the cuff....