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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 5:13 AM

Default Web Application Policies and Determining Number of Service Accounts

Back in the day we use to run everything as an account that is local administrator. This really isn't a best practice anymore. Worst case is to run everything with domain admin priviledges. It unnecessarily exposes your environment. Let me compare and
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007 11:57 AM

Web Usage Reporting Tools

After my initial post on usage reporting I came across a few usage tools that I wanted to share. I have been impressed with the manageability work the Idevfactory has been doing I hope to get a demo soon... the screenshots and capabilities sound pretty
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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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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, October 10, 2007 7:37 PM

Hey I'm on RunAsRadio for SharePoint Governance

I chatted with the Richard and Greg about some of the challenges and solutions related to "governance" or getting in control of your SharePoint environment. "Joel Oleson talks to Richard and Greg about the IT management of Sharepoint. Sharepoint has a
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Friday, October 05, 2007 7:34 PM

SharePoint Roles Assignments

This very thorough thought through answer by Mitch Prince on an Internal DL needs to see the light of day. I did a blog not long ago on SharePoint Groups, Permissions, Site Security, and Depreciated Site Groups and was going to append this on it, but
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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
Saturday, August 18, 2007 1:12 AM

Three New SharePoint Solution Accelerator Programs

Today a new solution accelerator beta was just announced for the availability of some new MOM Packs for System Center Ops Mgr 2007. Here's the 3 new solutions with detail. If interested follow the links below and apply to be notified when the bits and
Posted by joelo | 4 Comments
Monday, July 23, 2007 5:34 AM

Depth and Breadth in a SharePoint Architect Skillset

I had a funny conversation not long ago when talking to someone who was coming from the Unix, J2EE, Novell, Solaris, that world... You know... the other side of the universe. It went something like this, so you know SharePoint... that's great it looks
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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
Posted by joelo | 8 Comments
Monday, April 02, 2007 6:05 PM

Web Application Policies

Since we have lots of policies this wave, web app policies sometimes get overlooked or misunderstood. They are not the same as information policies which are more focused on data in lists and libraries. Web App policies are designed around rights to the
Posted by joelo | 4 Comments
Friday, March 16, 2007 3:00 AM

SharePoint Information Architecture and the Information Architect

Who owns information architecture in a SharePoint deployment? Is it IT? Is it the business? Well, who owns the Intranet. HR? Marketing? Corporate Communications? Back up... What CXO should care about the Intranet? All of them should, but who owns it in
Posted by joelo | 8 Comments
Friday, February 02, 2007 3:09 AM

Usage on My Blog and SharePoint Usage Stats

I was doing some analysis on the usage on this blog and came across some interesting info, that I thought you as well might find interesting. Some of you might be suprised what you can find out about your traffic by analyzing your logs or running a web
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007 7:23 AM

Tips on Site Collection Sizing

Something that's tough to find any information on is Site Collection sizing. Let me offer up my thoughts on the topic and share some history. The largest single site collection I've come across was 600GB all in a single SPS 2003 portal (top level site
Posted by joelo | 22 Comments
Saturday, December 30, 2006 12:56 AM

How to Create Intranet Chaos

In previous articles I've talked about how important it it to have a governance plan. I think it works well to start from the other side of the coin on what happens without governance and "How to Create Intranet Chaos". Governance is really a top down
Posted by joelo | 6 Comments
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