Are you centralizing your SharePoint deployment? Do you want to integrate backend data sources located in distant lands with SharePoint using the BDC? Here's something to think about. BDC does no caching of data sources. So what does that mean? If you...

I wanted to write a quick note on the good and bad of using SQL aliasing for redirecting SharePoint between mirrored SQL nodes. Good - It's a very simple solution. Each application server in the farm simply needs to be configured with the alias information...

If somebody would have mentioned this, I would have 3 hours back. When recovering SQL server from a situation where you have lost the model database, make sure to remove the data and log files (if any exist) from the original directories before attempting...

I saw this post and it got me thinking how difficult it is test anything. Testers deserve lots of respect. Testing is hard work. It requires a scientific mind, serious attention to detail, and extreme patience. While every effort is made to test SharePoint...

Lately I've been working on System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 for protecting our SharePoint and SQL servers. If you are not familiar with DPM, DPM is all about protecting your servers by replicating block level differences to a disk based store...

I just noticed that Joel was talking about personal sites configuration and I realized that I never posted about my experience upgrading customers way back in the day. I bet some of you are experiencing this or will be experiencing this in the future...

I've been building a DR solution to protect against some major disasters. Earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear war, global destruction, you know the fun stuff, but maybe I should be planning for more immediate disasters. http://blogs.msdn.com/briankel/archive...

I've been doing some research trying to figure out what SharePoint books I should own and found that my buddy Andrew Connell has done all the work for me. Here's a repost of his work: Here's my little list of what I like to call the "Best Damn SharePoint...

My buddy Andrew Connell has put together an informal SharePoint chat session. Coral Reef Bar in Mandalay Bay from 6-8p . Talking about intellectual horsepower! 16 of the brightest minds in SharePoint will be there. I wouldn't miss this for the world and...

I wanted to post a quick overview of how to install a DR farm to protect your main farm by log shipping your content databases to the second farm. The trick with the secondary farm is that the log shipped databases will be attached to the web application...

I'll be co-presenting 3 sessions at connections and have a lot of stuff to talk about and I can't wait to hear your stories from the real world. James Petrosky and I will be giving a session on disaster recovery in SharePoint and one on capacity planning...

You might have seen the database mirroring whitepaper for SharePoint. It mentions a great article from the SQL folks on alerting on database mirroring events. One might think that monitoring the WMI events in SQL is a good or maybe the only way to take...

As you may already know, the only way to restore an index without having to recrawl is to use the out-of-the-box backup mechanism either in the UI or via STSADM catastrophic backup option. Using STSADM allows you to schedule the backup, but I was asked...