Something that's tough to find any information on is Site Collection sizing. Let me offer up my thoughts on the topic and share some history. The largest single site collection I've come across was 600GB all in a single SPS 2003 portal (top level site...

I've been in converstations with consultants on some large global companies on determining which deployment style they fit in. Central Deployment (1 main deployment 1-3 farms) Regional Deployment (2-5 farms) Distributed Deployment...

I had no idea how many cool new SharePoint tools were on Codeplex till I happened to look yesterday. Lots of interest in Ajax. Here's a synopsis of what popped out at me with some comments in (). · SharePoint Forums Web Part The SharePoint Forums...

SharePoint Learning Kit A new great solution for classrooms is now freely available. The gist of it from what I've gathered is it is an elearning solution to provide training including grading, tracking, and storing. It leverages workflows, lists and...

I love a good checklist. If you do too, then you may like this collection of checklists that I found when looking for the best checklists on the web. System Administrator Checklists · Check List for System Administrators Implementing SharePoint...

MSDN has the best resources for understanding the keyword sytax and property searches. You'll notice a lot of these are common across search platforms making it easy to adopt by end users. Property search is extremly powerful for filtering down your results...

stsadm -help setproperty Here's a list of the people picker properties that can be set () peoplepicker-activedirectorysearchtimeout peoplepicker-distributionlistsearchdomains peoplepicker-nowindowsaccountsfornonwindowsauthenticationmode peoplepicker...

Steve Tullis shared some performance counters that the perf team was using. It's a pretty useful list. The only other list I've seen like this in relation to SharePoint was listed in the IT performance whitepaper for 2003. It includes some further data...

A reply to the " Are File Servers Dead ?" post I did brought up these tough questions that I didn't address… As you move collaborative shares to SharePoint Products & Technologies, these questions may come up. · Pretty much every application...

Well the MOSS 2007 x64 downloads are available via MSDN and MVLS. On MSDN, the ISO contains both x86 and x64. The WSS x64 is on download center. Just last week I think I was asked when to use x64 over x86 at least 3-4 times. First off, there is no difference...

Joys of NLB. Customer was recently asking me about issues they were having with NLB and Kerberos. He came across a recent KB 325608 where authentication delegation through Kerberos doesn't work straight forward in load balanced environments. ...

The Office Web Components are both a client and server technology. Hopefully answers relating to both can be had here. Client: OWC11.exe for Office 2003 can be found here . Server: STSPLPK.exe for WSS 2.0 can be found here . (Don't try to install...

This topic has come up more times than I can count. This is one of those sticky topics that IT Pros seem to have a hard time with. See the TechNet reference for how to handle customizations and you can see that it can't be handled at that layer for most...

Maybe you've seen the blog tagging that seems to have been going around like a Hello Virus or at least a Hello World. I have to thank Keith Richie for this one. Apparently it started with Bil Simser . The gist is to say 5 things you don't know about...

In SPS 2003 and WSS 2.0 the metabase stores the entire configuration for the IIS Web Site (IIS virtual server/IIS Web Application). In MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 this is true as well, but there are some slight differences that you should be aware of. The...