I hear this question at least at every conference, and I'm sure there is no right answer. Of course I have an opinion. I have lots of opinions, and I am biased. So I don't see this as a chicken or egg debate. There are some very clear reasons why you...

I've been a fan of Echo for SharePoint from Echo Technology as a solution to managing customizations and pushing out change across large numbers of site collections, and they have just announced their public beta will be in June 2007. It's been long coming...

Just got off the phone with Sean Livingston and we had a quick discussion about host header upgrade and an issue to which some customers have contacted product support. I've seen this before in IT. I know there aren't too many host header deployments...

From my last post I got a few questions about how or where to create a blog. Lately I've been thinking about how I can encourage more and more to blog since I've been seeing the benefits from those who blog and suffering as a result of those who fail...

Bloggers Unite! Not a blogger? Start now, you *CAN'T* afford *NOT* to. Meaning please start sooner than later, there is an ROI (Return on Investment) as I'll demostrate. We all suffer as a result of you not blogging. Seriously. Let me start with, some...

If you've followed my upgrade blog posts, you'll see a few posts on upgrade and the 3 methods are documented on TechNet and listed from the new TechNet Upgrade and Migration Center and ship out of the box. My recent experience tells me there are more...

"How long does a typical deployment take?" This is one of the questions I got at the SharePoint Conference last week in Sydney. How would you answer? One guy I mentioned this question to quipped... how long you got? If you already have your hardware...

Hey mate, I'm sitting here in the speaker lounge at the SharePoint Conference Sydney . I'm in the land of OZ. Kicking it down unda. I hope to pet a Koala some time during the week. I also have a car and plan to head to the Blue Mountains and track down...

Yesterday I provided some info on RSS TTL. Same line of thinking... RSS is changing the world. A very clever person has put together http://www.sharepointrss.com Thanks George Tsiokos . Why do I like RSS? RSS is your friend as an IT Pro because you...

I was visiting with a customer yesterday and he was asking about how to configure the content in his RSS to expire sooner. I had to look this up. My searches on the web and on the intranet were fruitless. Believe me, finding info when searching for the...

Before you dismiss this as a dev topic. Let me tell you why you should care about this as an upgrade topic and a manageability and governance topic. Your policies around customization may have the biggest impact to how difficult it is to upgrade, maybe...

First let me start off with what you can find for yourself if you dig. There's an interesting reference at the bottom of a TechNet capacity article: Additional performance and capacity planning factors (Office SharePoint Server) "Domain controllers...

Between Shane's prescan post (view comments for more details) , Bill's prescan wisdom and a few of my own , there are a few good posts on prescan.exe. I tried to do some digging today to address a question on got on my recent prescan post (part1) about...

I was talking to my friend Steve Trepp the support manager for Tier 2 in IT. I asked him if I could share some support numbers and call types to help you understand the breakdown over a 3 month window ending in December. Note this does include some migration...