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Back in the day we use to run everything as an account that is local administrator. This really isn't a best practice anymore. Worst case is to run everything with domain admin priviledges. It unnecessarily exposes your environment. Let me compare and contrast different strategies. All one account...

After my initial post on usage reporting I came across a few usage tools that I wanted to share. I have been impressed with the manageability work the Idevfactory has been doing I hope to get a demo soon... the screenshots and capabilities sound pretty good. Really interesting work. The Quest tool I...

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 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...

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 a knack for showing up everywhere in an organization...

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 decided this was worth it's own post. <update...

In the last week I've read a blog posts about SharePoint as a development platform and scratched my head around some of the weak arguments. Great comments by SharePoint MVPs, thanks AC and Spence. Since then AC has done a post on his blog explaining that SharePoint is a *GOOD* development platform for...

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 updates are available. <update 9/1/07> ...

I had a funny conversation not long ago when talking to someone who was coming from the Unix, J2EE, Novell, Solaris, that world... You know... the other side of the universe. It went something like this, so you know SharePoint... that's great it looks like you've focused on that for some time, but...

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...

Since we have lots of policies this wave, web app policies sometimes get overlooked or misunderstood. They are not the same as information policies which are more focused on data in lists and libraries. Web App policies are designed around rights to the web app as a whole. Here are a few examples......

Who owns information architecture in a SharePoint deployment? Is it IT? Is it the business? Well, who owns the Intranet. HR? Marketing? Corporate Communications? Back up... What CXO should care about the Intranet? All of them should, but who owns it in your corporation? Who owns the platform and...

I was doing some analysis on the usage on this blog and came across some interesting info, that I thought you as well might find interesting. Some of you might be suprised what you can find out about your traffic by analyzing your logs or running a web analyzer product against your logs. 11% of...

Something that's tough to find any information on is Site Collection sizing. Let me offer up my thoughts on the topic and share some history. The largest single site collection I've come across was 600GB all in a single SPS 2003 portal (top level site collection). The largest web app I've come across...

In previous articles I've talked about how important it it to have a governance plan. I think it works well to start from the other side of the coin on what happens without governance and "How to Create Intranet Chaos". Governance is really a top down cultural thing, that does require buy off from the...

I was on a call the other day with a customer and they were looking for prescriptive guidance for their global company. What was the right approach? What's the formula? How can I determine? Since the Geo Whitepaper hasn't been rev'ed yet. I figured I'd provide my thoughts on the topic in the mean time...

There have been a bunch of questions lately around Global Deployments. Here are some essential resources and some links. Multi Lingual Whitepaper for MOSS - Just released! Thanks Luca Global Deployment Whitepaper for WSS 2.0 & SPS 2003 - Still very relevant, but I'll mention differences...

Thanks to those of you who partipated in my SharePoint Connection basic and advanced Deployment talks at SharePoint Connections and Tech ED ITforum. As promised here are links to download and uncompress those decks. Connections_Deployment_Oleson.zip If you are interested in Deployment, I figured...

I just posted a collection of security resources, web casts, and links for IT Pro's on the SharePoint Team blog. I recommend reading through it and checking out the resources. There's a lot of good stuff on the topic. My top 5 security related features... Information Policies - Auditing of security...

Links to the latest MOM Pre-Release Packs for SharePoint Server and Related Technologies: · SharePoint Server 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 · Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Beta 2 Technical Refresh Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 · Project...

Question: I've heard 50GB is a database limit. I need to support 10TB+ and I'm concerned about management or manageability issues and don't want to support a ton of databases. Can the technology support me? Answer: This is a non issue. SharePoint can support hundreds of GB databases. It may be...

Shared Services (SSPs) are great. What are these services? Search/indexing, my site hosting, profiles (company directory), Audiences (for Targeting content), Portal Usage Reporting (enhanced Usage reports), Excel Services, Business Data Catalog Configuration. If you didn't know about them or use them...

I did a webcast last week and was looking through the huge set of webcasts that are available for SharePoint Server, Exchange, MOM, Windows, SQL, etc... There are at least 2 or 3 a day! I've been working with the TechNet team to make sure the "best of" the SharePoint Conference and TechEd session content...

Having been involved in a number of deployments, there are some key things to consider. Here are some of my key deployment considerations to governance & management. Quota - to encourage storage management, if not manage your disk space and search relevancy Usage Policies - what is...

Over the next couple of months, I'm working on Governance and Manageability. It's been consuming my life for the past couple of months as well. It's a big deal. It's sometimes tough to get your arms around. As far as this topic goes, I'm also working on demos for launch on this topic as well as compliance...