I'm back with another post about Upgrading to SharePoint 2010. The stsadm -o preupgradecheck provides a wealth of information of a SharePoint deployment however this isn't always enough information. The preupgrade report includes the number of references...

I haven't posted on this blog in quite a while but I plan to start adding some new content. I've spent the last several months figuring out how to upgrade all of our hosted SharePoint customers, so in doing all that i have created lots of tools, scripts...

first off, if you're using office 2007 file inside sharepoint v2 you need to read this post. there are some very important things you need to be aware of. as some background, office 2007 introduced a new xml based file format for office documents....

it's been a while since my last post... i've been busy working on some creating a sharepoint metrics repository for our hosted sharepoint customers . i'll talk about that a bit more in a future post. ;) today i'd like to announce the release of an...

sharepoint v3 has the new feature of sending email to sharepoint lists. cool right? there is even a built in sharepoint list template called "discussion boards" which is ideal for incoming emails, and acts as a threading tool for grouping messages together...

in sharepoint v3, the tool stsadm has an operation for importing and exporting sites and/or webs. it is the replacement for smigrate from v2. so say you want to move a web to a different site collection, you would need to use this tool. unfortunately...

sharepoint v3 has the nice ability to display rss feeds via web parts... but there is a potential problem most rss feeds people care about are external, meaning outside the company's intranet. in order to allow your sharepoint server external access...

in sharepoint there are a lot of terms that may be confusing to new sharepoint admins, or even to existing ones. since a lot of the words have other meanings than what sharepoint uses them for, it can be a bit tricky. i know when i was starting out...

this past weekend we had a sharepoint farm where we needed to detach the databases and reattach them to a different web application. this can break a lot of things, dr watson has a good list of some of them . i'm going to focus on alerts and how to fix...

the reason why i started this blog is because i found myself following this trend: start with a question about sharepoint search internet / blogs / etc... (you know the drill) dont find anything helpful, so conduct research figure it out...