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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

Filed under: Uncategorized

So the “Good-byes” begin…

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE [This is a post I published at work today...] I have been over here in the UK launching Rackspace’s SharePoint support for the past 6 weeks and today is my last day here in the office. As a token...

Published Fri, Jul 29 2011 8:09 AM by Social-Point

Filed under: Uncategorized

Managed Metadata – Changing Terms

I was asked the question recently as to what was the behavior of the Managed Metadata Service when you wanted to change a term. I started to answer and realized I’d never completely tested the scenario. So here goes! The Answer: If you don’t...

Published Mon, Jul 18 2011 5:32 AM by Social-Point

Filed under: SharePoint, Support, Troubleshooting, Managed Metadata, Training, Terms

Debugging SharePoint – ULSViewer is a MUST

I love this tool – the ULSViewer: http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/ULSViewer If you spend any amount of time digging into SharePoint farm issues – this tool makes it so much easier to filter and find what you need. Here is a screenshot of...

Published Tue, Jul 12 2011 5:17 AM by Social-Point

Filed under: Collaboration, SharePoint, Troubleshooting, 2010, ULS

Search Crawls Won’t Complete

This post should also be titled “My Penalty for not Reading ALL the Instructions“. As it turns out, when you install the Service Pack 1 for SharePoint Server (first Foundation, then Server) – you are required to run the configuration...

Published Fri, Jul 08 2011 4:37 AM by Social-Point

Filed under: SharePoint, Troubleshooting, PowerShell, Upgrading, SP1, 2010, Patching

SharePoint Blogging

I recently installed WPTouch for this blog which is a plugg-in for WordPress blogs which applies a mobile (iPhone) skin to your site when it’s viewed from a compatible device. Here is what it looks like: This brings up the question that if I am...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2011 5:30 AM by Social-Point

Filed under: SharePoint, Social, Blogging, Support, WPTouch

Deleting the Search Service in SharePoint 2010

From time to time, deleting the Search Service Application can not be completed through the GUI or through powershell. Sometime you will get an error like this one: The timer job completed, but failed on one or more machines in the farm. And sometimes...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2011 2:21 AM by Social-Point

Filed under: SharePoint, Troubleshooting, PowerShell

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