I think it was funny that I was reading about Robert Scoble and a few of his posts via blog friends on facebook. The irony was he was being lambasted and accused of using Facebook to promote himself and even hacking the newsfeed. I don't know anyone with...

If you're in the Puget Sound area and confused or looking for a drill down into SharePoint Deployment around Governance, I have the thing for you. Bill Baer (IT Technologist), Jim Adams (IT Deployment Sr. Project Manager) and Myself are going to have...

Talking to a buddy on Friday, the post he said he actually read was one I must have posted on 2003. I guess he's not necessarily a frequent reader, but it made me realize it's a topic I haven't touched in a very long time. Shane was also asking me about...

DPM 2007 has RTMed ! This means there are now more ways to backup and protect your farm. I was on an internal field call (Academy Live) and Live Meeting yesterday with the DPM Product Managers doing a presentation on using DPM 2007 to protect your...

Thought I'd give you a run down of some upcoming conferences and tell you what's coming up and where I'll be. I'm going to do an incognito appearance at the Puget Sound User Group this Thursday. Going to see AC and get some free pizza. Next week...

Although they might not surface every where you want them to such as incoming emails on a straight "custom list" or list created from the custom list template. There are some extremely useful scenarios and if you know you want to do it, one of these lists...

Working on some Network and WAN scenarios. I wanted to share some thoughts... I've recently been working with Kimmo Forss, Dino Data-on, Steve Peschka, Luca Bon and Brenda Carter on a global deployment whitepaper taking their knowledge and getting it...

Larry Kuhn when through the process of documenting end to end how to get the mysites and profiles working properly . I know I've seen more than a few threads on how to get this to work. I'm impressed with the post and wanted to commend him for sharing...

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It took me a while to find this, so I thought I'd simplify it if you were curious. It is straight forward once you figure out that Facebook calls their profile a "badge" that's the confusion. 1. Login to facebook.com 2. Go to your profile on facebook...

You may have seen the virtual environment (VHD) that was previously posted on the SharePoint Team blog. I've gotten some recent questions about the virtual image and trial. Here are the links to the virtual image. Virtual PC/Virtual Server MOSS...

I've gotten some questions asked on the hotfix and public update I wanted to address here. Product Support and a few PFEs helped me with these. Thanks guys! Q. Do I need to install both the MOSS and WSS public updates? A. Yes, best practice would...

With a number of recent simplified releases I wanted to share what I'd call the SharePoint Deployment Essentials... First My Simplified Favorites, then some more verbose resources. My latest attempt at capturing the best is in this SharePoint Deployment...

With my focus on Governance I thought about settings and configuration that really should be changed from default. I've often had people ask... What should I configure, what is the default? The expectation is that you do need to configure it. I've had...

I chatted with the Richard and Greg about some of the challenges and solutions related to "governance" or getting in control of your SharePoint environment. "Joel Oleson talks to Richard and Greg about the IT management of Sharepoint. Sharepoint has...

Yes, it's true I currently blog on community server, but have you seen the latest from SharePoint works? They combine the best of both worlds. http://sharepointworks.com/pages/css.aspx I can't say I've heard much about it, but I do think it's interesting...

The Microsoft IT Reporting Framework 2.0 was just released to codeplex. Robin and Cory Burns an ops analyst and from MS IT have graciously shared some valuable IP. Much of this text and images are used from Cory's internal blog and from the codeplex site...

You may not have heard about these updates, they may not have hit your radar is you're already running WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. In fact you're likely focused on the public security update MS07-059 that will be released today. I wanted to provide some...

This very thorough thought through answer by Mitch Prince on an Internal DL needs to see the light of day. I did a blog not long ago on SharePoint Groups, Permissions, Site Security, and Depreciated Site Groups and was going to append this on it, but...