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Monday, September 24, 2007 9:35 PM

SharePoint is an Awesome Dev App Platform

In the last week I've read a blog posts about SharePoint as a development platform and scratched my head around some of the weak arguments. Great comments by SharePoint MVPs, thanks AC and Spence. Since then AC has done a post on his blog explaining that
Posted by joelo | 11 Comments
Thursday, July 12, 2007 7:44 PM

Massive Scale Deployment - Modularity in SharePoint Farms

I was talking to a team recently about how to scale to the hundreds and thousands of servers to support the extreme large scale deployments. The question was... Let's say you were going to design Myspace or a Wikipedia on WSS or SharePoint Server, how
Posted by joelo | 6 Comments
Monday, July 09, 2007 5:36 PM

SharePoint Capacity Planning Key Info

WSS 3.0 About performance and capacity planning (Windows SharePoint Services) Estimate performance and capacity requirements for Windows SharePoint Services collaboration environments (Office SharePoint Server) Intel Partner Whitepaper: White paper: Intel
Posted by joelo | 22 Comments
Thursday, May 31, 2007 9:30 PM

What's First, Office Client or SharePoint Deployment?

I hear this question at least at every conference, and I'm sure there is no right answer. Of course I have an opinion. I have lots of opinions, and I am biased. So I don't see this as a chicken or egg debate. There are some very clear reasons why you'd
Posted by joelo | 2 Comments
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:00 AM

How Long Does a Typical Deployment Take?

"How long does a typical deployment take?" This is one of the questions I got at the SharePoint Conference last week in Sydney. How would you answer? One guy I mentioned this question to quipped... how long you got? If you already have your hardware,
Posted by joelo | 2 Comments
Monday, May 07, 2007 4:37 AM

To Unghost or To Not Unghost, That Is the Question!

Before you dismiss this as a dev topic. Let me tell you why you should care about this as an upgrade topic and a manageability and governance topic. Your policies around customization may have the biggest impact to how difficult it is to upgrade, maybe
Posted by joelo | 8 Comments
Attachment(s): revert to site definition.GIF
Saturday, April 21, 2007 12:47 AM

Sample Data for Capacity Planning

I've been through many conversations that ended with... Ok, if we only knew how large the files were in our company then we could figure out this WAN thing, or figure out this Indexing thing. What's the average word doc or average document size in our
Posted by joelo | 4 Comments
Attachment(s): SharePoint_Reports_7_13_04_release.zip
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 7:29 AM

SharePoint Governance through Database Design Considerations

Governance is so key to deployment. I still hear of people that "throw a deployment over the fence" to an untrained, unexperienced IT guy or gal to "deploy" it for them. A few days later, WSS 3.0 is installed on a server or two and a web app provisioned
Posted by joelo | 4 Comments
Thursday, April 12, 2007 1:39 AM

Master Page and Themes on WSS sites in MOSS

I was in a meeting the other day showing off master pages on a "team" site on our MOSS farm and discovered a few things... The steps below should work with any of the master pages and themes. Feel free to substitute. The steps below are great for IWs
Posted by joelo | 7 Comments
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