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Monday, February 04, 2008 11:21 AM

Monday SharePoint Reading

I've posted some resources over on the SharePoint blog recently and wanted to make sure you don't miss these... Have you deployed WSS 3.0 SP1 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1? If not, we strongly encourage customers to take advantage of the top support
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:24 PM

Global SharePoint Deployment Partner Solutions

I may have previously told you I was working on a "GEO" whitepaper. One section that I signed up to work on was all the various partners in this space. I know a lot of partners and took on the task. I can't say this is perfect, so I ask any partners to
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 6:35 PM

Pilots, Proof of Concepts, Test, and Pre Production Environments

Although you may not find many references to dev, test, staging, environments, these are critical to large deployments. Even in the commodity type space where you are simply hosting the out of the box SharePoint code, it still very important if not critical
Posted by joelo | 10 Comments
Wednesday, January 02, 2008 2:13 PM

How Many SQL Servers for My X TBs?

Got this question a couple of days ago in relation to the capacity planning tool and the self imposed limit of 2 TB which is NOT a SharePoint limit... Note the answer does not refer to size of database, it's talking about the total disk storage of all
Posted by joelo | 8 Comments
Monday, December 03, 2007 11:15 AM

SharePoint Server Topology - Server Roles and Services on Server

Many of you may think this is basic info, so don't over think what I'm saying here. I'm sitting in Shane Young's Admin class and realizing that the services on server and the server roles match up isn't very clean. Let me share some thoughts on server
Posted by joelo | 9 Comments
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 6:03 PM

Database Repartitioning with MergeContentdbs

Just wanted to do a quick post on database management. Todd Klindt did a great post on moving site collections in a single bound that refers to a very nifty new stsadm command intended for SP1, but included in the October 9 public update called mergecontentdbs
Posted by joelo | 19 Comments
Thursday, November 08, 2007 5:43 PM

What Not to Store in SharePoint

What NOT to store on SharePoint is a modified post of " What NOT to do on SharePoint " from one I did a few years ago based on WSS 2.0 and SPS 2003 a few things have changed. This question is something I get asked or that comes up whenever migration comes
Posted by joelo | 18 Comments
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:49 PM

Free Pac West Sales Event: Meeting of the Minds Governance and SharePoint 2007

If you're in the Puget Sound area and confused or looking for a drill down into SharePoint Deployment around Governance, I have the thing for you. Bill Baer (IT Technologist), Jim Adams (IT Deployment Sr. Project Manager) and Myself are going to have
Posted by joelo | 2 Comments
Monday, October 29, 2007 6:45 AM

Recommendations for SharePoint Application Pool Settings

Talking to a buddy on Friday, the post he said he actually read was one I must have posted on 2003. I guess he's not necessarily a frequent reader, but it made me realize it's a topic I haven't touched in a very long time. Shane was also asking me about
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Friday, October 12, 2007 9:31 AM

SharePoint Deployment Essentials and Resources

With a number of recent simplified releases I wanted to share what I'd call the SharePoint Deployment Essentials... First My Simplified Favorites, then some more verbose resources. My latest attempt at capturing the best is in this SharePoint Deployment
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 5:56 AM

Default installation configuration and what you need to know.

With my focus on Governance I thought about settings and configuration that really should be changed from default. I've often had people ask... What should I configure, what is the default? The expectation is that you do need to configure it. I've had
Posted by joelo | 11 Comments
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:02 PM

2 Stage Recycle Bin and recovery thoughts

Got a question today about how to think about the recycle bin. Here are some thoughts. Actually by default there are 2 stages of the recycle bin with built in retention policies and flushing built in by default. You don't have to do anything to take advantage
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 10:18 PM

Huge Educational SharePoint Deployment - Miami Dade County Public Schools

Everyone is always looking for the huge case studies. You don't have to go to Microsoft.com for this one. See the Miami Herald's coverage of the Miami Dade SharePoint Deployment http://www.miamiherald.com/295/story/208130.html Few good quotes: "The school
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Monday, July 16, 2007 10:51 PM

Scripted, Unattended and Silent Installs

I haven't heard much traffic on unattended installs in SharePoint, but hey it is possible, you may want to do it for consistency of building or rebuilding servers in your farm. Here's a quick overview. There are actually 3 commands you need to know. Setup.exe
Posted by joelo | 12 Comments
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 1:15 AM

SharePoint as an IT Service Offering

Was talking to a IT TDM (Technical Decision Maker) today who was looking for a way he could "manage" SharePoint (either WSS or MOSS) from a standards perspective. His example was, today he can choose specific hardware and specific settings for his exchange
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