One day left at TechReady 9 and I’ve already had a great week. The record-setting heat in Seattle hasn’t gotten in the way one bit. I’ve been inside most of the day in air-conditioning learning about great technologies, both current and future. There...

Twice a year Microsoft puts on a Microsoft-only technical conference called TechReady. I’m fortunate enough to be able to attend this week. TechReady 9, as it’s called, is in Seattle and it looks like it’ll be a scorcher. The weather forecast is calling...

A few months ago I looked high and low for a simple table/list covering SharePoint survey capabilities for a customer. I wasn’t able to find one so I put together the following list of SharePoint survey capabilities: Default survey template comes out...

Today ended up being a big day of announcements at the Worldwide Partner Conference. Office 2010 was demo’ed – very fun to see it highlighted. The Office 2010 Technical Preview private beta was released. We also announced some sneak peaks of SharePoint...

I've done a lot of development work, and obviously a lot with SharePoint, but I'm not a DBA. So when I had a few different customers ask for some SQL architecture info for budgeting and capacity planning I did a little reading and digging beyond the basic...

Hi there. My name is Nate Baum and I'm a long-time blog reader, first-time blogger. Happy New Year? I know it's July, but this week marks the beginning of a new fiscal year at Microsoft - what we call FY10. As a SharePoint Technology Specialist working...