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Tuesday, September 09, 2008 12:50 PM

SharePoint and Virtualization - Better Together!

I'm really excited about virtualization and think it's the best way to streamline deployments and get the most bang for buck out of your hardware. However, there are some important differences between virtual and physical environments that you need to
Posted by Michael Watson | 3 Comments
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 | 7 Comments
Monday, August 11, 2008 1:20 PM

Upgrading SharePoint SQL Servers to SQL Server 2008.

SQL Server 2008 is now released and is supported by WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 SP1 and above although we probably won't see a supportability statement anytime soon due to resource constraints with the content folks. I will let you know when the official supportability
Posted by Michael Watson | 3 Comments
Thursday, February 28, 2008 10:36 PM

Database Maintenance Whitepaper just published.

A very proactive Bill Baer has released his database maintenance whitepaper. There's some great stuff in here straight from MSIT best practices. {updated link - Thanks Shane!} http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=111531&clcid=0x409
Posted by Michael Watson | 3 Comments
Thursday, January 24, 2008 4:44 PM

Sweet! I've been saying we need this....

OK, I had nothing to do with this, but it's definitely something I've been talking about. I think a lot of people who think about governance and SharePoint want a way to manage site collections in cohesive units. Now there's a way: http://www.codeplex.com/SPConfigurator
Posted by Michael Watson | 3 Comments
Sunday, November 18, 2007 12:39 PM

SharePoint and Storage

There is lots of good information on how to optimize storage for SQL, perhaps too much. Some great articles to read for those interested: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/physdbstor.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/workingwithtempdb.mspx
Posted by Michael Watson | 8 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
Monday, July 30, 2007 4:07 PM

BTW... High Availability/Disaster Recovery and SQL Licensing

If like me you are looking to eak (sp) every dollar of costs savings out of your deployments take a look at the SQL Server Pricing and Licensing paper at http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/sqlserverlicensing.mspx . I'm not sure this is common knowledge
Posted by Michael Watson | 0 Comments
Sunday, July 29, 2007 10:31 AM

Database Mirroring vs Log Shipping. Choose Both?

In a response to my blog entry Database Mirroring and Log Shipping . Which is better? The mysterious Reed Me said: "Why not do both? One is HA. One is DR. It's a no-brainer. Do both." I totally agree. In fact, that is exactly what I've been working on
Posted by Michael Watson | 2 Comments
Saturday, July 28, 2007 1:51 AM

Database mirroring and log shipping. Which is better?

You may ask yourself and others this question all the time. I have heard the question a lot. The quick answer...it depends. I think both are great, however, your situation may make one more attractive than the other. Here's a quick list of the main benefits
Posted by Michael Watson | 11 Comments
Saturday, December 09, 2006 4:56 PM

File Shares vs. SharePoint

I had a series of interesting conversations over the last few days with a storage server colleague about hosted file shares. He and his team hypothesized that a hosted share service would “cannibalize” our hosted SharePoint offering. Here’s my response
Posted by Michael Watson | 13 Comments
 
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