I was in a thread recently where Gabe Bratton was looking through top support issues and looking at ways of preventing or being aware of what these were. A lot may look like no brainers, but remember these are lessons from TOP calls. With his permission...

I was looking at these updated metrics today from MS IT and found them insightful and interesting. The ratio for recycle bin you may find interesting as a new metric. Couple of new estimates based on this environment: ~30% of documents in environment...

I've been thinking a lot about globalization, good or bad. The world is getting smaller. Earlier this year when I was in a small village with recent electricity in Morrocco, I thought I was in the middle of nowhere or at least on the edge of the world...

Got this question recently... Where can I find a good summary of the security, compliance, and governance resources for setting policies and comprehensive detail? Tough request… looking for both a summary with comprehensive detail. That is tough to...

Everyone is always looking for the huge case studies. You don't have to go to Microsoft.com for this one. See the Miami Herald's coverage of the Miami Dade SharePoint Deployment http://www.miamiherald.com/295/story/208130.html Few good quotes: ...

The buzz these days at least in some circles seems to be social networking. What's cool about this is it really makes technology about connecting people. My dad, now retired, was a social worker, and as I grew up I got deep in psychology, sociology, the...

Today a new solution accelerator beta was just announced for the availability of some new MOM Packs for System Center Ops Mgr 2007. Here's the 3 new solutions with detail. If interested follow the links below and apply to be notified when the bits and...

The SAT team (Solution Acclerator team) has been working on new management packs for SCOM (System Center Operations Manager) 2007previously known as MOM. These 2 new beta packs, part of a manageability toolkit , one for WSS and one for MOM, have just...

You may have seen this as it was recently featured on TechNet, but if not you have to check it out. My good friends in MS IT land have shared some of their deployment. The first part is a bit slow, so if you're looking for meat jump to the introduction...

Just finished the latest HP book, not Hewlett Packard, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In addition, I enjoyed the Simpson's movie outtake on Spider Pig and Harry Plopper. You can learn a lot about SharePoint from the movies. You're wondering...

I did a session last week at TechReady 5 talking about how WSS 3.0 on Windows Server 2008 is hotness. It's the shizzle as Richard Riley would say. Before I post my findings on the SharePoint team blog, I thought I'd share my findings and see what resonates...