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A blog by John West of Microsoft Consulting Services - Central Region

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April 2004 - Posts

SharePoint 2003 Search Provider now included with MSIB v2.5 which just released
The Microsoft Solution for Internet Business v2.5 has shipped Overview The Microsoft Solution for Internet Business (MSIB) team is happy to announce that MSIB v2.5 has shipped and is now publicly available on Microsoft.com. MSIB v2.5 builds on MSIB v2.1 Read More...
SharePoint Disaster Recovery Guide - Draft - Now Available
Enjoy! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=60bd8fe5-804e-4a49-83db-ea41beb80f3b&displaylang=en Read More...
Web Part Catalog
Can't beleive I left this out of my original links post. Enjoy! http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/downloads/components Read More...
WSSmigr a utlity to backup project 2003 sites
I have not had a chance to research but it looks interesting. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2ada79f5-2adb-43d8-8a33-9b34d2ebbba7&displaylang=en Read More...
Biztalk - SharePoint integration resources
Some decent info: Article: http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/Workspaces/viewuploads.aspx?id=0d1aa85c-cf8d-497e-84f4-3ffec8db115f Webcast http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032247146&Culture=en-US Related blogs with information Read More...
Best Practices for Integrating CMS and SharePoint
Saw this released today from the MSDN channel, took a quick read, and felt it was worth repeating. Great stuff including how to make a CMS template appear like a SharePoint page. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnmscms02/html/ODC_MCMSCSPT_BPDevelopingSols.asp Read More...
Ever wonder how the Index Server Decides to remove a document
Well here is a nifty table that gives you some ideas. Full Incremental Incremental (inc) Adaptive HTTP 3xx error Never never never never HTTP 4xx error Immediate Immediate Immediate Immediate HTTP 5xx error Never Never Never Never SPS page removed 3 rd Read More...
SharePoint Webinars and Development Center
More links :) http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/seminar/mmcfeed/MMCDisplayFeed.asp?sort=title&lang=en&product=103361&audience=100402 Will give you a subset of web seminars available for SharePoint 2003. I am working on some Read More...
Backing up Windows SharePoint Services (WSS)
Another great link http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/office/office2003/maintain/bureswss.mspx There are others, but what I like about this one is the fact that it provides a great table that breaks down the different effects and capabilities Read More...
Capacity planning for Sharepoint Portal Server 2003
I have been getting questions from folks on what type of capacity is SPS 2003 capable of supporting. Microsoft has done some great work in testing SPS capacity and has published the information here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/office/sps2003/plan/cappisps.mspx Read More...
SQL Logs and SharePoint
I was asked today what happens with a SQL Transaction log when a document is opened, modified and changed. Specifically, will the log reflect the changes, or will they reflect the entire document. After pinging the product group, the response I have gotten Read More...
A few of my favorite SharePoint Links
This list is not exhaustive, but I did want to share a few links that I think have some great information on SharePoint Portal and Windows SharePoint Services. http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX010909721033&CTT=6&Origin=ES790020011033 Read More...
Introduction
Hi there, My name is John West and I am a Principal Consultant with Microsoft. I have been with Microsoft since 1997. My day to day work life is generally focused on assisting Microsoft's enterprise customers successfully deploy infrastructure products. Read More...
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