I ran across this information on http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx about content database sizing for SharePoint 2010. This new guidance for SP 2010 has changed from MOSS 2007/WSS 3.0. I had to read it a couple of times to see what...

I’m a big fan of sandboxed solutions because in addition to the safety features of running outside of the IIS worker process, you also are more agile as a developer. Farm solutions deployed in the GAC reset your web application after each deployment which...

You can get the PowerShell_ISE instead of the default PowerShell command window. You will get such niceties as cut and paste using the standard Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V keyboard shortcuts, being able to debug, and create new scripts. To set this up, go to the Start...

If you haven’t heard, SharePoint 2010 allows you to use FileStream from SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 and the Remote Blob Storage provider so that that you can now use cheap storage to store documents outside of SQL Server! These articles were especially helpful...

I've been doing a few trial database attach upgrades by taking 2007 content databases and attaching them to SharePoint 2010. One of them had a custom master page and after upgrade returned this error: An error occurred during the processing of /_catalogs...

If you are running Windows 7/Vista to run SharePoint 2010, you've probably discovered that you may not necessarily need SharePoint to be running in the background all the time. I've compiled a list of the services that SharePoint Server uses (let me know...

Now that both Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 have RTM’d I’ve been experimenting with running SharePoint in a native boot VHD and it is working very well! Previously I was using Windows Server 2008 x64 with Hyper-V to dual boot my laptop which has...

On March 11th I presented at an invitation-only SharePoint Conference in the Midwest on Planning for Capacity and Scale. This was a redelivery of a similar session that was presented at the SharePoint Conference in Seattle last March. If you are looking...

I've been running virtual machines on Hyper-V in the MTC lab with great success. The performance is excellent and much faster than it was on Virtual Server. One challenge though is that it would be nice to be able to start up a Hyper-V VM on my laptop...

Today I finally got around to upgrading my Windows Server 2008 x64 machine (which I use to host my SharePoint virtual machines) from Hyper-V RC0 to RTM. I tried it a number of times but it kept failing, saying "Updates were not configured correctly. Reverting...

I recently had the opportunity to work with a customer that wanted to consume SAP Enterprise Services web service into Office SharePoint Server 2007. It was the first chance I had to work extensively with the BDC Definition Editor that comes with the...