I had an email from one of Ted Pattison's students on "security in SharePoint." When I first started reading it, I expected to have some question about server hardening or firewalls, but the question was about permissions. It's been so long that security...

Something that often comes up in deployments and migrations is what is allowed? What characters are supported. Rather than saying what's supported, it's a lot easier to say what is blocked and what is not allowed. Going from a desktop, file share or public...

Working with Bill Baer, I've republished to our Codeplex governance workspace , the GotDotNet tools that MS IT had published These tools include the MS IT Recycle bin for WSS 2.0 and SPS 2003 written by an IT dev team (spec'ed by myself and Andre Heyman...

Was talking to a IT TDM (Technical Decision Maker) today who was looking for a way he could "manage" SharePoint (either WSS or MOSS) from a standards perspective. His example was, today he can choose specific hardware and specific settings for his exchange...

The GotDotNet site is being phased out Microsoft will be phasing out the GotDotNet site by July 2007. Workspaces will be phased out on 6/19/2007 (Today) As part of the phase-out of the GotDotNet site, workspaces will no longer be available...

I had a Vista WOW moment this morning. On this SharePoint blog I usually wouldn't talk about something Vista unless it relates to SharePoint. This one is a stretch. I got an attachment in email in a zip which included a word doc. I double clicked the...

My good friend Shane Young has put up my TechEd 2007 Orlando decks (Upgrade, Governance, Deployment and Planning part 1 & 2) on his blog. Man he's a funny guy. Just being around him makes me goofy. In fact the Paris Hilton joke wasn't planned, neither...

Got this message from a user responding to a comment they saw in a previous post... http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2006/11/16/upgrading-from-wss-3-0-b2tr-to-rtm.aspx # John Angelini said on March 26, 2007 12:34 PM: Regarding Search..... I struggled...

I've been listening to a lot of NPR (National Public Radio) lately. Seems like every morning on my way to work the radio is talking about gas and emissions and green house gasses. It got me thinking about what I'm doing to contribute to the problem or...

Dustin Miller is my hero. About 3 months ago I was with Dustin Miller, Nikola Young, and Heather Solomon at SharePoint Connections in Orlando and we're enjoying ourselves at Disney MGM studios at the Fantasmic Mickey Mouse Show. The crowd was huge...

After church I had lunch with Rick Taylor. The knewest SharePoint IT engineer. You'll likely here more about him. He's a guy with a lot of passion. We had a good chat about why he should consider Duvall and Carnation and possibly Monroe over Auburn and...

I just uploaded the code for the Microsoft IT Team Site Life Cycle Management tool . Bill Baer worked overtime to get me the code on this one. Thanks Bill! If you're concerned about sites being unused, taking up disk space and interfering with search...