SharePoint Hosting and Development

I love blog comments. They keep you honest and earnest. In response to my blog post Database Mirroring and Log Shipping. Which is Better? Andrew Woodward noted that my post did not address the fact that SharePoint is not mirroring aware. While my intent...

In a response to my blog entry Database Mirroring and Log Shipping . Which is better? The mysterious Reed Me said: "Why not do both? One is HA. One is DR. It's a no-brainer. Do both." I totally agree. In fact, that is exactly what I've...

You may ask yourself and others this question all the time. I have heard the question a lot. The quick answer...it depends. I think both are great, however, your situation may make one more attractive than the other. Here's a quick list of the main...

There's quite a list of tasks to complete if you want to move databases between web apps with different url’s. Knowing this, see if an Alternate Access Mapping (AAM) will work for you instead of moving databases between web apps. Here's a list of things...

It's been a long time since I've written anything out here. Rest assured I've been plenty busy working on several projects including mirroring/disaster recovery and multi-tenancy. I can't wait to write about these subjects in the future. I promise to...

I can't tell you how many times I'm asked "how do I get a list of unique users for my farm" or "who has access to this site". These requests were so common that I created a tool to dump a list of unique users per farm over the last 30 days (using the...

The team and I have decided to start blogging collectively. http://blogs.msdn.com/insidesharepoint No content yet, but this should be treasure trove of information in the future.

With the integration of CMS and SharePoint, and the enormous investment made in web content management in general, it's no doubt that many organizations are starting to put MOSS on the Internet. Ian Morrish is compiling a list of public sites using MOSS...

I had a series of interesting conversations over the last few days with a storage server colleague about hosted file shares. He and his team hypothesized that a hosted share service would “cannibalize” our hosted SharePoint offering. Here’s my response...

I just got back from Silicon Valley where I attended the SP401 class given by Gorilla Training. My instructor was none other than Scot Hillier . This was a great class and I would recommend it to anyone needing to get up to speed on MOSS development and...