I hope you have checked out the database maintenance whitepaper that Bill Baer put together and just released on TechNet. In the review cycle for the paper, I saw some very insightful guidance from Mike Watson, Tom Tseng, and incredible insight from Ronnie...

Just got back from Jumper the movie. A new movie about a guy who teleports. Can't say I teleport, but yesterday I left Sydney and it was Monday at 3:30pm when I got on the plane and 1:00pm when I was back in Seattle including a connection in L.A. Less...

I think one of the most common IT questions is around how to backup SharePoint Server and when to use SQL backup over STSADM backup. I've chosen 200GB below, but essentially anywhere between 200-500GB or as soon as you're ready to manage it outside of...

Looking to index these file types on your SQL full text search, SharePoint, Desktops, or whoever else uses mssearch.exe? You can now index the following for free with this ifilter pack: .docx, .docm, .pptx, .pptm, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, .zip, .one, .vdx...

I understand my RSS subscribers may take this hard. I couldn't find it anywhere else, and my pleas to get it elsewhere have gone unanswered so far. Rather than keep you waiting, I figured it's better to have it somewhere than nowhere. It will end up on...

If you want this in a word doc, you can get the SharePoint Monitoring toolkit and then download the file called "SharePoint Management Pack Guides.zip" which include both 2003 and 2007 formats of the content posted here. I personally couldn't handle not...

The SCCP SharePoint Models were just released via the SharePoint team blog about an hour ago. Let me tell you about some of the behind the scenes on this one. Steve Peshka was really the main SME (subject matter expert). I admit I did have some input...

I'm happy to announce the release of the SharePoint Cross Site Collection Configurator ! This functional sample source and solution deployment is designed to be simple to configure and easy to deploy, and is available now on Codeplex. Not only provides...

I assume you've heard the news. I've seen the email signature that Richard sent out this morning popping up on various people's emails now. Even internal people are having a hard time getting in now. :) (That's right, customers have priority!) That...

I've posted some resources over on the SharePoint blog recently and wanted to make sure you don't miss these... Have you deployed WSS 3.0 SP1 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1? If not, we strongly encourage customers to take advantage of the...