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Cloud Server Showdown

If you are interested in Cloud-Based servers – then the article reference here is for you: Old McDonald Had a SharePoint Farm E-I-E…IO – Part 2 The article was written by Todd Carter (MCM, MCT, and all-round good guy). A quick bit of clarification...

Published Thu, Dec 06 2012 8:43 AM by Social-Point

Filed under: SharePoint, Cloud, Microsoft, Windows Server, Azure, Windows 2012, 2012 Server, Cloud Server, AWS, Windows 2008r2, Server, Microsoft SharePoint, Windows, Windows 2012 Server

SharePoint at Rackspace

Just as no two finger-prints aren’t the same – no two SharePoint hosting options are the same. To help clarify the options - I’ll be delivering a WEBinar on Friday where I’ll be showing the differences between Rackspace, o365,...

Published Mon, Nov 26 2012 4:01 PM by Social-Point

Filed under: Collaboration, SharePoint, Social, Support, Rackspace, DataCenter, Office 365, o365, Hosting, SharePoint Hosting

Microsoft Changes CAL Pricing Scheme

Mary Jo Foley posted an article for ZDNet Concerning a change to Microsoft CAL (or Client Access Licensing) for the following products: Bing Maps Server CAL Core CAL Suite Enterprise CAL Suite Exchange Server Standard and Enterprise CALs Lync Server Standard...

Published Mon, Nov 26 2012 3:14 PM by Social-Point

Filed under: SharePoint, Licensing, Microsoft, SharePoint Systems Center, Microsoft Licensing, Exchange, Windows Server, Lync, Enterprise CAL Suite, Core CAL Suite, Project Server

Microsoft Datacenters

So my brain has been wrapped up in thinking about how SharePoint is evolving as a product and evolving as core strategy at Microsoft. I’m not 100% ready to share my thoughts with you yet – but what I will say is that in a lot of ways, SharePoint...

Published Wed, Nov 21 2012 7:55 AM by Social-Point

Filed under: SharePoint, Social, SharePoint 2013, Microsoft, WEB, data plumbing, DataCenter, Plumbing, Productivity, Data Center

It’s Yammer Time!

aka: The social layer On June 25th of 2012 Microsoft announced it’s intent to purchase the social media company, Yammer. For several month, the SharePoint community wondered what the impact of this purchase would mean for both Microsoft and more...

Published Tue, Nov 20 2012 11:17 AM by Social-Point

Filed under: SharePoint, Social, Rackspace, SPC12, SharePoint 2013, Newsgator, Microsoft, Yammer

SPC2013 – It’s all about Innovation

SharePoint 2013: How is our world changing? I have spent a lot of time thinking about the messages we recieved last week from Microsoft from the keynote all the way down to the last sessions. I would characterize the message of the week by showing a picture...

Published Mon, Nov 19 2012 2:00 PM by Social-Point

Filed under: SharePoint, SPC12, SP12, SharePoint 2013

SharePoint in the Cloud: SharePointConnections

I will be presenting at SharePointConnections in Las Vegas next week in a session called “Demystifying SharePoint in the Cloud”. My session is Wednesday 3/28 at 2:30. In this session I’ll be helping to put some definition around: What...

Published Tue, Mar 20 2012 8:40 AM by Social-Point

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Cloud, SharePoint in the Cloud

Today is a Great Day

Today (which is a great day) you may have read the press release from Rackspace, an article in the Wall Street Journal, or saw a twitter from a friend – but today Rackspace announced that we have purchased SharePoint911. I can’t tell you how thrilled...

Published Thu, Feb 16 2012 12:57 PM by Social-Point

Filed under: SharePoint, Blogging, Rackspace, SharePoint911, acquisition, Better_together, Better Together

SharePoint in the Cloud

This is a quick post to let you know about a new resource, it’s called “SharePoint in the Cloud“. Over at Rackspace we have created a Linkedin Group to have a discussion around all things “SharePoint in the Cloud“. While...

Published Mon, Nov 14 2011 6:21 AM by Social-Point

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Rackspace, Architecture, Cloud SharePoint, Linked-In, Linkedin, Cloud, SharePoint in the Cloud

Content Delivery Networks and SharePoint

Content Delivery Networks and SharePoint In the previous post I covered why someone would need to deal with global SharePoint and the 4 different options that exist to help SharePoint work over long distances. As a reminder, they are: Shorten the distance...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2011 9:31 AM by Social-Point

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Governance, Architecture, SharePoint Content Delivery Network, NTLM, Akamai, CDN, SharePoint Architecture, Content Delivery Network, Gartner, SharePoint Authentication

Global SharePoint Deployment – the “Why”

Alright – Let’s talk “Global SharePoint Deployments”. When setting out to create a global SharePoint deployment it’s important to understand what the drivers that push an organization to do this. The symptom they are either...

Published Thu, Nov 10 2011 8:37 AM by Social-Point

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, OSPF, Latency, Network Congestion, Geographic SharePoint, Geography, Routing, Architecture

Geographical SharePoint Redundancy

Working for Rackspace I have had the ability to architect some truly BIG SharePoint farms. One thing to realize along the way is that a lot of people lead with the need for very large, very geographically dispersed farms – but the reality is that...

Published Tue, Nov 08 2011 10:48 PM by Social-Point

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Governance, Rackspace, SharePoint Recovery, Idera, Quest Software, Slow SharePoint, Disaster Recovery, SharePoing DR, Geo SharePoint, AvePoint

SharePoint Conference 2011

Well the SharePoint Conference 2011 is over and everyone is either home or on their way home. I’ve debated on what content should go in this post and have come to the conclusion that I’d like to take a little different path. I’d like...

Published Fri, Oct 07 2011 1:15 PM by Social-Point

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Blogging, Rackspace, SPC11

Randy Drisgill: SharePoint Conference 2011

SharePoint MVP Randy Drisgill (@Drisgill) of SharePoint911 talks briefly about 2 of his sessions coming up this week here at the SharePoint Conference 2011. Read More...

Published Tue, Oct 04 2011 12:37 PM by Social-Point

Filed under: SharePoint, Blogging, Development, SPC11, SharePoint911, Office365, SharePoint Online, Branding, Randy Drisgill, Design

We are but shadows

Michelle had me take this pic as we walked home tonight from The Prince Arthur – our neighborhood Pub. That’s right – after six weeks living and working in England we can say we have a neighborhood pub that we call our own. We’ve...

Published Sat, Jul 30 2011 5:21 PM by Social-Point

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