I've been working with the SAT team on a tool with a real 3 pronged approach to asset inventory tracking otherwise known as reporting. 1. Discovery - finding what's out there (Ping, Port Scan, Interogation, SOAP & web service calls, etc...) Think...

Those of you who follow my blog, know I'm a big fan and instigator of local crawling (WFE + Index server roles) also known as target boxes, often the target is separate from the index server, my recommendation is to make them the same. Although it does...

What are blogs more than a personal expression? Let me take a break for a second to share some thoughts on one of the greatest men of this time. President Hinkley was my prophet. Something I've been thinking about this evening and will likely be reflecting...

When Hurricane Katrina hit, SharePoint was there. When the Tsunami hit South East Asia, SharePoint was there. Many non profit and humanitarian services and non governmental organizations (NGOs) are using SharePoint. For me it gives me a great feeling...

I may have previously told you I was working on a "GEO" whitepaper. One section that I signed up to work on was all the various partners in this space. I know a lot of partners and took on the task. I can't say this is perfect, so I ask any partners to...

SharePoint isn't a credit card, but it does mold very well. Not sure if it's play dough or plastic. Woody thought it was an elephant , but an elephant is very well defined even if it has a trunk on one end and a bristly tail on the other. The more I work...

Although you may not find many references to dev, test, staging, environments, these are critical to large deployments. Even in the commodity type space where you are simply hosting the out of the box SharePoint code, it still very important if not critical...

Exciting times, here's another chapter in the crawling and kerberos saga. A few days ago I apologized for providing information that was misleading. Today I am able to clarify that my original message was mostly correct and is in further validation...

Got this email from a reader: Hey Joel, We completed a few MOSS sites that I thought you may want to add to your internet site roll... www.amhb.ab.ca (Alberta Mental Health Board) www.mentalhealthfirstaid.ca (Mental Health First Aid) ...

News If you hadn't noticed, Microsoft does care about Search. With the bid for FAST a leading Search vendor, Jeff Raikes stated that with the marrying of FAST's products with SharePoint, "we are clearly the leader in end-to-end search in the corporation...

I did a post a few days ago about Kerb/Forms authentication and Indexing . ------ Snip. This information is incorrect. I guess I was mostly right with my original post. ------- have noticed the glitch on the SharePoint team blog yesterday...

Got this question a couple of days ago in relation to the capacity planning tool and the self imposed limit of 2 TB which is NOT a SharePoint limit... Note the answer does not refer to size of database, it's talking about the total disk storage of all...

<Updated Jan 10 with latest info from the testers .> Got this question from a reader: Question: The consultant that helped us develop the SharePoint architecture plan said that all web applications that have sites that need to be crawled need...

A friend was building a server and ran into an issue where he was installing a fresh server, put in his trial key and assumed he did everything right, but was getting an error message: "The evaluation version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007...