I have resurfaced from the underground. My new blog is at http://www.sharepointmadscientist.com

At the SharePoint Best Practices Conference, there was quite a bit of interest in customization, specifically best practices for customization in SharePoint. The current bible on that topic was written by my buddy, Sean Livingston, a PM in the SharePoint...

I'm really excited about virtualization and think it's the best way to streamline deployments and get the most bang for buck out of your hardware. However, there are some important differences between virtual and physical environments that you need to...

Check it out. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb736746.aspx

You might have noticed that SharePoint SP1 now supports SQL Server 2008 :-) http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/08/15/sql-server-2008-support-for-sharepoint-products-and-technologies.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/mikewat/archive/2008/08/19...

Microsoft has announced SharePoint Products and Technologies 2007 (SP1) support for SQL Server 2008. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx for MOSS and http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288751.aspx for WSS. (look towards...

It’s official. I’ll be at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference September 15 th – 17 th in Washington DC. This will be a great conference. There are a lot of great speakers and sessions and the focus on best practices will cut out all the fluff. If...

SQL Server 2008 is now released and is supported by WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 SP1 and above although we probably won't see a supportability statement anytime soon due to resource constraints with the content folks. I will let you know when the official supportability...

In an ongoing effort to simplify mirroring I've decided to post the scripts I use to setup mirroring for myself. There are 9 easy steps to execute. The trick with most of these commands is that they output a script that you will need to copy into the...

The SharePoint 2007 Infrastructure Update is a must have install including numerous performance and stability hotfixes. Make sure to install this one. For more info see the SharePoint team blog http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/07/15/announcing...

If you are using content deployment (aka prime) you will be happy to know that the rollup has been released as part of the May 2008 Hotfix package. Find out more here. WSS: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952698 MOSS: http://support.microsoft...

SharePointJoel , Doron Bar Caspi, and I were interviewed by TechTarget after our *dizzying* session on Geo-distributed SharePoint Deployments at TechEd 08. I'm not sure where Joel's and Doron's audio ended up, but they included portions of my interview...

Joel and I had a lot of fun doing this video for TechEd Online about the state of SharePoint reporting. SharePoint Reporting—What's Up? Key Points about SharePoint 2007 reporting. Project and team based site collection administrators will...

My new buddy, and PFE extrordinare from Canada, Roger Cormier is blogging now. I'm certain he will have some good stuff soon so bookmark this one. http://blogs.msdn.com/rcormier/

I'm number 65! http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=31 Wow! That's super especially considering how neglected my blog has become since joining my new team. Regardless, I look forward to posting some good stuff in support of my...

I was just reading Todd Carter's blog and man am I impressed. He's got some really good stuff on here. I highly recommend bookmarking this one. http://blogs.msdn.com/toddca

Steve Smith, the MVP extraordinaire from the UK and part owner of Combined Knowledge along with Penny Coventry, MVP extraordinaire from PPP Consulting just released a white paper showing how to configure a load test end to end using VSTS 2008. This is...

Just in case you didn't get the memo SharePoint is the fastest selling server product in the history of Microsoft according to BillG. (doesn't that also make it the fastest selling server product, period?) In a blog conversation I had with the honorable...

It's rare for anyone from the actual SharePoint product group to blog so it's noteworthy when they do. Jason Cahill just started blogging this month and already has a great collection of informative and practical posts that I recommend you read. http...

The DPM team released a whitepaper detailing how to backup MOSS search. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0150d17d-9f28-4ef6-8dc8-8fbb5fed5cfc&DisplayLang=en This is another feather in the DPM hat.

Just learned of this great resource. The SharePoint Learning Resources Site. It's a little clunky, but I didn't know MSFT had so much training available for SharePoint.

I'm sometimes reminded that there is still a lot of debate over how to position file shares and SharePoint in an organization. There are still many people drinking the file share Kool-Aid and that's fine. I blogged about this a little over a year ago...

I continue to hear questions and debate over how to build local or regional immunity into a single SharePoint farm. Enterprising SharePoint folks want to make sure that their SharePoint service remains online even if Dr. Evil fires the “laser” at their...

I'm back in the office now after being out for a couple of weeks in a SQL Ranger rotation . The training was great, but I was pulled out 2 weeks early to focus on our newest product for MOSS supportability. More on that later. I'll try to get the blog...

  It's about 30 minutes from the start of my session on H/A at the SPC. One of the things I talk about in the session is how easy it is to monitor your web servers for failure and yank them from NLB when they do. I've posted the example code below...