Just passed the two new SharePoint IT Pro exams... 70-631 WSS 3.0 Configuring and 70-630 MOSS 2007 "Configuring" Technology Specialist (TS) exams which were recently announced . The exams were not super easy which is good. It will be a good challenge...

TechReady4 (internal technical readiness field event in Seattle) went really well. Some good times. Wanted to share some data from a couple slides in the advanced deployment deck. Refer to the TechNet Planning Security for additional details: Plan for...

Determining crawl times/crawl performance depends on a number of factors, here are some of the more important ones Number of Indexing/Crawl threads Size of documents, type of documents (mix), ifilters (single or multi threaded) WAN - End to...

In SPS 2003 we found that indexing could be a pretty heavy weight operation. In a small/medium environment it's not a big deal. In an enterprise environment crawling hundreds of GB to TBs indexing can potentially cause more traffic than user traffic....

I was preparing for a TechReady (internal Technical Readiness conference) Presentation and for my advanced deployment presentation I really needed to beef it up. Here's a list I put together for a few lockdown slides. This is not meant to be fully comprehensive...

I was doing some analysis on the usage on this blog and came across some interesting info, that I thought you as well might find interesting. Some of you might be suprised what you can find out about your traffic by analyzing your logs or running a web...