I have the priviledge of attending SharePoint Conferences and rubbing shoulders with some of the coolest people in the industry. This last week I was at SharePoint Connections and hung out with Dustin Miller (SharePoint Experts) at MGM. I peeked in on...

I bought a space helmet at Mission Space at Epcot while down here thinking it would make a great prop. I downloaded the 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) midi file and had it running on the laptop while I slowly moved my head with the space helmet over the...

Overview If Intra-farm shared services are web apps consuming from SSPs within the same farm, then Inter-farm are web app(s) consuming from SSPs outside the farm. (MSDN: Shared Services Overview ) (TechNet: Plan Shared Services Providers ). Because...

My spring and summer schedule is layed out with some pretty fun SharePoint Conferences and Events... Just finished the TechReady4 (internal technical readiness conference) which was followed by the MVP Summit amongst partner conferences and summits...

In a previous post I mentioned the WFE/Index role and how making the index server have a WFE (Use a Dedicated WFE for Indexing) role can optimize your traffic and throughput (less hops) as well since the requests can be made locally. I still think it...

Starting from auditing , expiration, ( information management policies ) content types , to the pivot reports in Excel I'm pretty jazzed about the compliance features in SharePoint Server. The policies such as auditing are configurable at 2 levels...

Many of you are excited to know that bucketwebs are going away. WooHoo! No more http://portal/c4/c15/market%plan or /c15 whatever. A customer recently was worried about conflicts that would occur when the bucketwebs were flattened to their structure....

Who owns information architecture in a SharePoint deployment? Is it IT? Is it the business? Well, who owns the Intranet. HR? Marketing? Corporate Communications? Back up... What CXO should care about the Intranet? All of them should, but who owns...

I had a thread with DWinter an important support figure in SharePoint Land. He explained that although site templates do still have the default limit of 10MB, there is a way to change it!!! Dan explains that it is the default, but you can change it...

This post has been long comming. I recently spent some time with Samer Sawaya of SharePoint Recycle bin fame :). We have some good memories working through that one. You can thank me later for the 2nd stage not getting cut, I fought hard for that. We...

I’ve been pinged a couple of times recently about multi forest environments. This *does* work. It *was* tested. You do need *at least* a one way trust. Thanks Shaofeng and Venky. This is an update to the people picker post I did a while back. ...

Had a recent conversation with a partner that had said that he had heard that Forms used an additional protocol than HTTP with SharePoint forms. I didn't know the answer so I tracked it down... When using one of the web based forms it uses XMLHTTP...