April 2008 - Posts

QUESTION: I Need a Good SharePoint Admin. What should I be looking for?
26 April 08 03:35 PM | gregmcb | 1 Comments   

I thought I might spend of a few minute with my answer to this question that seems to be coming up with managers more often with each passing day. My response is complicated to explain to becuase the answer is always you are asking the wrong question Read More...

Filed under: Managing My SharePoint

Decisions About When To Use a Farm, Web Application, Content Database or Site Collection
23 April 08 11:14 AM | gregmcb | 0 Comments   

I wanted to say a few things that may help when deciding upon when a Farm, Web Application, Content Database and Site Collection are necessary. For the purposes of this discussion I am defining a Large organization as any organization implementing a medium Read More...

MOSS SP1 Upgrade Process Step By Step
21 April 08 10:02 AM | gregmcb | 1 Comments   

MOSS SP1 Upgrade Process: As defined and cleansed by http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263467.aspx#section1 Database Maintenance: 1. Run MOSS BPA and resolve any problems defined 2. Stop the www service and disconnect any users 3. Run DBCC Read More...

Controlling PeoplePicker Content
14 April 08 04:14 PM | gregmcb | 0 Comments   

You have two choices, you can use either of the following stsadm cmds: searchadcustomfilter or setsiteuseraccountdirectorypath. setsiteuseraccountdirectorypath: When people picker resolves the user, it will check whether the user exists in the site collection Read More...