Martin Kearn

After careful thought, I have decided to join forces with the rest of the SharePoint team in UK Microsoft Consulting Services to work collectively on a new team blog called UK SharePoint Team (http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint). With many people contributing...

As part of a SharePoint farm configuration, you will need to setup a share on your Query servers in order for the Index Server to propagate (i.e. copy) the search indexes to the Query Servers. In Central Administration (Services on Server > Office...

I often get asked to clarify how all of the objects in SharePoint relate to each. For example, people do not always understanding the differnence between a site collection and a site or how a web application and content database relate to each other....

I recently presented a talk at the Office Developer Conference in San Jose and I was surprised about the amount of questions we got around SharePoint server farms and topologies. Having a good understanding of what a farm is and some of the best practices...

Update (8th March): The product team have now released a MOSS with SP1 download. Read all about it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/03/07/moss-2007-with-sp1-slipstream-officeserverwithsp1-exe-released.aspx In order to install MOSS...

Ok, I'll admit that this is not the most snappily-named blog title; however it will address a specific problem that I've hit a few times at different customers; which is how to make automated modifications to sites after they have been deployed and used...

This is the second of my several-part series on how to configure Kerberos for MOSS 2007. In the first article , I outlined the steps that are required in order to get Kerberos working for a basic MOSS installation. In this article I am going to address...

(UPDATED on 04/06/07 as per feedback from two different subscribers (thank-you). Updates in Italic) (UPDATED on 20/08/07: My colleauge James World has just published an excellent article which is a kind of follow-up to this one. It goes a bit deeper...

One of my first ever blog articles (and by far most popular to date) was a set of instructions on how to install Beta1 of SharePoint Server 2007 on a single machine. I removed this article because it was too much of an overhead updating it with the various...

As some of you may have noticed from my lack of recent posts, I’m working on a fairly intense MOSS deployment project right now (apologies, will blog as much as I can). We are using Groove 2007 as our primary collaboration tool within the project and...

..... In short, the Business Data Catalogue (BDC) is without doubt the most powerful feature in MOSS 2007! (In my opinion)..... I know this is a rather bold statement and hopefully this article will go some way to convincing you of the same! So what...

I have been doing some work recently on MOSS architecture for large deployments and thought that I’d share some of my findings. MOSS architecture is very similar to SharePoint 2003 in some ways but different in a few crucial areas. So what is the same...

One of the interesting new features in MOSS 2007 is the support around mobile devices. In this article, I’ll aim to give you a quick overview of how you can get the next version of SharePoint on your phone. What are Mobile Views? Every list and...

I have re-written this article for SharePoint Server 2007 RTM. You can see it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/martinkearn/archive/2007/03/28/how-to-install-sharepoint-server-2007-on-a-single-machine.aspx

Columns have always been one of the most powerful features in SharePoint as they allow you to slice and dice you data into different views that provide very compelling information to the end users. In MOSS 2007, columns have received a facelift and in...

For me, one of the coolest new features of SharePoint Server 2007 (or MOSS) is Content Types. In this article, I’ll aim to give a brief overview of what they are and why you should be getting excited about them (especially if you are from a SharePoint...

I've spent a little time recently developing a Windows Form utility that allows you to update SharePoint 2003 user profiles (in a profile database) from values in a CSV file. The tool allows you to map up to 12 profile properties to colums in a CSV file...

Sounds too good to be true does'nt it? Microsoft have just released some test results that compare the performance of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 on SQL 2000 vs. SQL 2005. Using SQL 2005 improves performance on every type of SharePoint farm configuration...

I spent a little while looking at this so I thought I'd share my findings.... Currently, if you want to write an application that runs on .net 1.1, then you have to use Visual Studio 2003. Equally, if you want to write an application that uses .net...

When I am not working on Microsoft stuff, I have a sideline as Chief Director of Information Systems to Scruffy Mutts …. My partners dog grooming business! Naturally, we have a website ( www.scruffymutts.com ) and I’ve been doing a lot of work making...

Yesterday, Microsoft announced the new naming and product line-up for what we have been calling Office "12" up until now. The big news for SharePoint fans is that SharePoint will be called "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007" . Presspack overview...

OK, so here goes ....... this is my first entry in my brand new SharePoint / Office 12 / Information Woker blog! I've just started a new job with Microsoft UK working as an MCS consultant and hope to bring lots of usefull 'notes from the field' regarding...