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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 top support fixes, performance, reliability, and...

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 include their information in the comments on the...

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 to have a "test" environment where you can...

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 of the databases together on a single node. Question...

Many of you may think this is basic info, so don't over think what I'm saying here. I'm sitting in Shane Young's Admin class and realizing that the services on server and the server roles match up isn't very clean. Let me share some thoughts on server roles and the services. The first thing to realize...

Just wanted to do a quick post on database management. Todd Klindt did a great post on moving site collections in a single bound that refers to a very nifty new stsadm command intended for SP1, but included in the October 9 public update called mergecontentdbs with details in KB934525 . This command...

What NOT to store on SharePoint is a modified post of " What NOT to do on SharePoint " from one I did a few years ago based on WSS 2.0 and SPS 2003 a few things have changed. This question is something I get asked or that comes up whenever migration comes up. The other post I'd refer people to read in...

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 a meeting of the minds on SharePoint Governance. We...

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 this. There are some good descriptions of the settings...

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 Essentials Guide , something I recommend as a must...

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 some good conversations with Bill English and some...

Got a question today about how to think about the recycle bin. Here are some thoughts. Actually by default there are 2 stages of the recycle bin with built in retention policies and flushing built in by default. You don't have to do anything to take advantage of the end user item and list recycle...

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 school district will unveil a new version of...

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. Setup.exe - lays down the bits. Config.xml...

Was talking to a IT TDM (Technical Decision Maker) today who was looking for a way he could "manage" SharePoint (either WSS or MOSS) from a standards perspective. His example was, today he can choose specific hardware and specific settings for his exchange or AD servers. It's an entire configuration...

My good friend Shane Young has put up my TechEd 2007 Orlando decks (Upgrade, Governance, Deployment and Planning part 1 & 2) on his blog. Man he's a funny guy. Just being around him makes me goofy. In fact the Paris Hilton joke wasn't planned, neither was him walking off the stage when I was talking...

I hear this question at least at every conference, and I'm sure there is no right answer. Of course I have an opinion. I have lots of opinions, and I am biased. So I don't see this as a chicken or egg debate. There are some very clear reasons why you'd want to not hold up your server deployment with...

"How long does a typical deployment take?" This is one of the questions I got at the SharePoint Conference last week in Sydney. How would you answer? One guy I mentioned this question to quipped... how long you got? If you already have your hardware, and Windows Server, SQL, DNS, IP addresses arranged...

First let me start off with what you can find for yourself if you dig. There's an interesting reference at the bottom of a TechNet capacity article: Additional performance and capacity planning factors (Office SharePoint Server) "Domain controllers: It is possible for authentication to become a performance...

I know you'll see documentation recommending in place as an upgrade for the non customized environment or the upgrade for the small environment. This list is to convince you to not make that decision. These reasons apply on upgrades from WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0 and from SPS 2003 to Office SharePoint Server...

There are a few ways to deploy WSS 3.0 farms. All in One - (Basic) - installs all components on the same server including Windows Internal Database engine. Looking for a limit or best practice? I don't recommend using this if you plan to store more then 5GB. Also if you have more than 25 people, and...

Governance is so key to deployment. I still hear of people that "throw a deployment over the fence" to an untrained, unexperienced IT guy or gal to "deploy" it for them. A few days later, WSS 3.0 is installed on a server or two and a web app provisioned with a site collection likely with a Intranet portal...

I've been reading The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More and started thinking about how this concept. The concept of everyone being a producer really applied to collaboration. More than blogs and wikis which are common templates in WSS 3.0, the team sites, document & meeting...

Overview If Intra-farm shared services are web apps consuming from SSPs within the same farm, then Inter-farm are web app(s) consuming from SSPs outside the farm. (MSDN: Shared Services Overview ) (TechNet: Plan Shared Services Providers ). Because of the WAN limitation, (can't consume SSP across...

In a previous post I mentioned the WFE/Index role and how making the index server have a WFE (Use a Dedicated WFE for Indexing) role can optimize your traffic and throughput (less hops) as well since the requests can be made locally. I still think it's a great recommendation, but I want to provide some...