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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:00 PM

Improving SharePoint with SQL Server 2008

You might have noticed that SharePoint SP1 now supports SQL Server 2008 :-) http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/08/15/sql-server-2008-support-for-sharepoint-products-and-technologies.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/mikewat/archive/2008/08/19/sql-server-2008-is-now-officially-supported.aspx
Posted by Michael Watson | 12 Comments
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 10:19 AM

I’m Speaking at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference

It’s official. I’ll be at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference September 15 th – 17 th in Washington DC. This will be a great conference. There are a lot of great speakers and sessions and the focus on best practices will cut out all the fluff. If
Posted by Michael Watson | 2 Comments
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 9:38 PM

SQL Mirroring Setup Made Easy

In an ongoing effort to simplify mirroring I've decided to post the scripts I use to setup mirroring for myself. There are 9 easy steps to execute. The trick with most of these commands is that they output a script that you will need to copy into the
Posted by Michael Watson | 2 Comments
Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:44 PM

DPM Search Backup White Paper.

The DPM team released a whitepaper detailing how to backup MOSS search. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0150d17d-9f28-4ef6-8dc8-8fbb5fed5cfc&DisplayLang=en This is another feather in the DPM hat.
Posted by Michael Watson | 0 Comments
Thursday, April 03, 2008 10:03 AM

More Clarification Needed? Geographic Separation of SharePoint Farm Components.

I continue to hear questions and debate over how to build local or regional immunity into a single SharePoint farm. Enterprising SharePoint folks want to make sure that their SharePoint service remains online even if Dr. Evil fires the “laser” at their
Posted by Michael Watson | 8 Comments
Monday, March 03, 2008 10:08 AM

The Newest Version of the Database Mirroring Whitepaper for SharePoint has been released

Using Database Mirroring with Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services Wow! This one took a while to update. We added more prescriptive information on the type of supported topologies. It also recommends SQL connection aliasing for failover
Posted by Michael Watson | 5 Comments
Friday, November 16, 2007 4:15 PM

Mirroring and Bandwidth

I just completed some testing to see how much network bandwidth between SQL nodes affects synchronous mirroring performance. The SQL mirroring white paper indicates that bandwidth does not matter much above 10Mbps, but that may lead you to the wrong conclusion
Posted by Michael Watson | 5 Comments
Friday, October 26, 2007 12:14 PM

SQL Aliasing Pros and Cons

I wanted to write a quick note on the good and bad of using SQL aliasing for redirecting SharePoint between mirrored SQL nodes. Good - It's a very simple solution. Each application server in the farm simply needs to be configured with the alias information.
Posted by Michael Watson | 0 Comments
Thursday, October 25, 2007 6:43 PM

Restoring SQL Server. Model DB Restore gotcha

If somebody would have mentioned this, I would have 3 hours back. When recovering SQL server from a situation where you have lost the model database, make sure to remove the data and log files (if any exist) from the original directories before attempting
Posted by Michael Watson | 0 Comments
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 7:10 PM

DPM, SharePoint, and Database Mirroring

Lately I've been working on System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 for protecting our SharePoint and SQL servers. If you are not familiar with DPM, DPM is all about protecting your servers by replicating block level differences to a disk based store.
Posted by Michael Watson | 3 Comments
Sunday, October 21, 2007 11:13 PM

Are we planning for the wrong disasters?

I've been building a DR solution to protect against some major disasters. Earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear war, global destruction, you know the fun stuff, but maybe I should be planning for more immediate disasters. http://blogs.msdn.com/briankel/archive/2007/10/21/my-building-was-flooded.asp
Posted by Michael Watson | 2 Comments
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Saturday, October 20, 2007 11:09 PM

Installing a SharePoint DR farm.

I wanted to post a quick overview of how to install a DR farm to protect your main farm by log shipping your content databases to the second farm. The trick with the secondary farm is that the log shipped databases will be attached to the web application
Posted by Michael Watson | 3 Comments
Friday, October 19, 2007 8:26 PM

SharePoint and Mirroring: Taking action on failovers

You might have seen the database mirroring whitepaper for SharePoint. It mentions a great article from the SQL folks on alerting on database mirroring events. One might think that monitoring the WMI events in SQL is a good or maybe the only way to take
Posted by Michael Watson | 2 Comments
Friday, October 19, 2007 2:26 PM

Quick note about index backup

As you may already know, the only way to restore an index without having to recrawl is to use the out-of-the-box backup mechanism either in the UI or via STSADM catastrophic backup option. Using STSADM allows you to schedule the backup, but I was asked
Posted by Michael Watson | 9 Comments
Monday, July 30, 2007 10:09 PM

Do Both. Now with more pics.

In a previous post , I talked about how I was working on implementing mirroring inside the datacenter for high availability and log shipping between datacenters for disaster recovery. Well I wanted a reason to use my freshly installed live writer and
Posted by Michael Watson | 2 Comments
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