Wow...did anyone forsee this SharePoint thing getting this huge this fast? I knew if was awesome, but I didn't foresee an adoption rate like this. Due to everyone loving out portal (take that Google), I have been swamped. Running around the country helping...

I wise old redneck once told me that every really good redneck story (or military story for that matter) had to start of with "No shit...there I was..." I laughed at the time, but after many years of considering myself in the redneck ranks, I have found...

I get a lot of emails and comments asking for a followup to my original post on migrating SharePoint from one SQL server to another. Folks want to know how to move from one SQL server to another in WSSv3/MOSS since it is a bit different than it was in...

Earlier this evening, there was a discussion on an internal discussion list about the best way to cut a subsite out of a site collection and make it into a separate site collection in a separate database. We went back and forth and I finally suggested...

OK boys and girls. It is time for a post that is more on topic than I have been lately. Today’s story actually stems from an internal discussion between several of us Premier Field Engineers who specialize in SharePoint. We were having a discussion on...

As I stated in my last post (wow...over a month ago already?), I would like to talk about communication between departments for a moment. I know this gets away from SharePoint a bit, but is very important and does affect many SharePoint shops. I see a...

In case anyone has noticed, it has been over a month since my last post. I didn’t do this on purpose, but have been on the road pretty extensively lately. As it turns out, I have witnessed some very cool things (MOSS 2007 is really growing on me) and...

In the past 3 weeks, I have visited several customer sites. All four of these visits involved discussions on upgrading from WSSv2/SPS to WSSv3/MOSS. That being said, I saw 4 very different environments and 2 major methods of thought about planning their...

I was recently working with a customer in North Carolina. They were in the process of upgrading the hardware that was running their SharePoint 2003 farm. Part of what they wanted to accomplish was to move from a SQL 2000 cluster for their backend to a...

Howdy there y'all. My name is Steven Roe and I am a Field Engineer for Microsoft. My specialty (as you may be able to tell from the blogspace's title) is SharePoint. That being said, in my job I travel around a lot working with customers in both proactive...