I know you'll see documentation recommending in place as an upgrade for the non customized environment or the upgrade for the small environment. This list is to convince you to not make that decision. These reasons apply on upgrades from WSS 2.0 to WSS...

Let's say you scanned your environment and you came up with a report like this for your top 100 files. There's a lot you can glean from this, but you really need to bucket it into groups. Is it collaborative, is it designed for the file system, or is...

I've been through many conversations that ended with... Ok, if we only knew how large the files were in our company then we could figure out this WAN thing, or figure out this Indexing thing. What's the average word doc or average document size in our...

If you're like me, your beta KN likely expired and you uninstalled it. I came across a new deployment today. This isn't an announcement, and I'm not telling you to go install it, but those who have been running it may find this useful. Knowledge Network...

There are a few ways to deploy WSS 3.0 farms. All in One - (Basic) - installs all components on the same server including Windows Internal Database engine. Looking for a limit or best practice? I don't recommend using this if you plan to store more...

Governance is so key to deployment. I still hear of people that "throw a deployment over the fence" to an untrained, unexperienced IT guy or gal to "deploy" it for them. A few days later, WSS 3.0 is installed on a server or two and a web app provisioned...

I've been reading The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More and started thinking about how this concept. The concept of everyone being a producer really applied to collaboration. More than blogs and wikis which are common templates...

Prescan is your friend. Without prescan you *WILL* fail your upgrade from WSS 2.0 or SPS 2003 upgrade attempts, even if you plan to simply run setup to perform an upgrade. One of the most common mistakes in fact is people that take an environment and...

Got a mail from someone from the field on ROI of going from File Shares to SharePoint. ROI from FileShares? That’s a tough one. Case Studies, I haven’t seen. I’ll give you some ideas… Areas to avoid or simply call out when trying to build...

I was in a meeting the other day showing off master pages on a "team" site on our MOSS farm and discovered a few things... The steps below should work with any of the master pages and themes. Feel free to substitute. The steps below are great for IWs...

I was getting ready for my CIO summit presentation and saved my pretty large deck to my site and got a nice "out of disk space" warning. So I quickly found some presentations that were old and deleted them. I didn't have time to go to the storage manager...

I know that it's always easier to see someone do something once to learn it. Especially if you have to see it to believe it like the Missourians or the type that will commit the UI to memory once you see where it goes. I'm a believer in the concept...

Security Improvements in SharePoint Server 2007 Joel Oleson Secure by Default Secure by default, with flexible information management policies for compliant solutions. That’s a good description of what administrators will find when server...

This KB article title is a bit of a misnomer, but once you dig info this you'll see it's not just the fact that your mail is from exchange, but more related to a MIME to MAPI conversion problem. This KB relates to properties which begin with X- (it's...

The term replication comes up quite frequently in large deployments. It means a number of things to a number of people. Here are some examples: Geo Replication - Geographical distributed replicated farms (Not supported in the product) SQL Replication...

Did you create your WSS farm with the -hh option in WSS 2.0 now trying to upgrade? (not the default configuration) If so, this KB will help you understand a common issue with database attach upgrades in relation to host header WSS deployments. First...

Since we have lots of policies this wave, web app policies sometimes get overlooked or misunderstood. They are not the same as information policies which are more focused on data in lists and libraries. Web App policies are designed around rights to the...