Last week at TechReady I attended Mike Watson's and James Petrosky's talk on HA and DR scenarios. Good talk. It reminded me of a few resources: The best resource is " Using database mirroring with Windows SharePoint Services . " This downloadable...

I see Andrew Connell (AC) has pinged me and I'm next on some e-chain letter of sorts with a focus on "stuff" I wouldn't want to live without. It looks like they focused on tech gadgets, but I find that a stretch for me, but I'll start with that. It...

Kimmo did a great presentation of his upgrade tools here at TechReady 5 an internal only event. There isn't anything in the release folder, but he has been checking in code on the workspace. http://www.codeplex.com/SPMigration/SourceControl/ListDownloadableCommits...

I had a funny conversation not long ago when talking to someone who was coming from the Unix, J2EE, Novell, Solaris, that world... You know... the other side of the universe. It went something like this, so you know SharePoint... that's great it looks...

I presented at the Puget Sound SharePoint User Group on 7/20 the inagural meeting. They have a picture of me :) Interesting that this is a new group... I remember doing a SharePoint user group in the same office about 3-4 years ago. I guess something...

Performance and time to upgrade depends on a number of things. WSS and SharePoint Server provide multiple methods to upgrade , each have trade offs as well as differences in performance. MS IT included their numbers on upgrade performance which help one...

I haven't heard much traffic on unattended installs in SharePoint, but hey it is possible, you may want to do it for consistency of building or rebuilding servers in your farm. Here's a quick overview. There are actually 3 commands you need to know...

I know that bouncing IIS is something that Web Administrators in the past did a lot especially when rolling out new projects to release the memory and release/refresh the cache. Worker process cycling schedules have reduced some of this, but there are...

I was talking to a team recently about how to scale to the hundreds and thousands of servers to support the extreme large scale deployments. The question was... Let's say you were going to design Myspace or a Wikipedia on WSS or SharePoint Server, how...

In a recent thread with Bill Baer and an external consultant we had an interesting conversation on Backups, the Config DB, and Alternate Access mappings. The conversation was fairly rich, so I thought I'd share. You may want to start at the bottom, since...

WSS 3.0 About performance and capacity planning (Windows SharePoint Services) Estimate performance and capacity requirements for Windows SharePoint Services collaboration environments (Office SharePoint Server) Intel Partner Whitepaper: White...