Ron Grzywacz's Blog

For those who dont know, it is not supported to geographically disperse a SharePoint farm. All SharePoint machines and SQL components need to live in the same datacenter. (There are exceptions to this, but you need to have LAN speeds over your WAN) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d013465b-454a-4a18-8ec4-6a5a82c81fb3&DisplayLang=e Read More...

I was helping a customer set up the document conversion service on their MOSS farm recently. We noticed the load balancer service would start fine on all the boxes in the farm, but the actual conversion service kept getting stuck in the starting state. Read More...

It is not supported to restore the SharePoint configuration database. (This does not mean you can't change a database server for a farm. Think of this as more of you cannot restore an backup over the production copy) http://support.microsoft.com/?id=94872 Read More...

I often get asked if it's possible to prevent users from editing sites with FrontPage 2003 (for v2/2003) and SharePoint Designer (v3/2007). Yes, this is possible. Unfortunately, you have to do it at a Site Definition level. So, it's either all or nothing Read More...

I recently updated my AT&T Samsung blackjac (1) to windows mobile 6. After doing so, I lost the ability to tether the phone to my laptop to use it to connect to he web. Well, I finally had a genius though breakthrough. I realized that I probably needed Read More...