One of the things that comes up in my SharePoint Administrator classes a lot is people who are looking for an easy guide to just get SQL Server up and running so they can deploy SharePoint. They aren't looking for best practices or optimal configurations just cut-to-the-chase, what they should do...
Happy New Year. Hopefully you have recovered from all of the good times and/or you got some rest on the break. I figured many of us have SharePoint 2010 deployments at this point that are mature. Which is awesome. But one thing I know about mature SharePoint farms is we often take them for granted. Below...
Database attach upgrades seem to be the norm these days for customers upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010. I am assuming the reason for this is because they are very flexible and generally work pretty well. One of the flexible things about these type of upgrades is you can change your web...
Yesterday my client presented a fun little challenge. They have one 2010 production farm they have been using for the last couple of months. On it they have about 25 WSPs that their developers have created. (Insert funny developer joke here. Probably something about a 1000 developers, a keyboard, and...
Today SharePoint managed to freak me out for a few minutes. I was looking at a customer's farm and when I ran the PowerShell cmdlet Get-SPContentDatabase it was only returning one content databases even though my farm has two content databases. The output looked like this. So then I thought about...
When I build a farm with the intention of not having any GUIDs I use the Central Administration page Manage Service Applications to create most of my service applications. And for most of the service application that have databases the GUI gives me the chance to name the database, which means I can avoid...
It is like your typical battle of good vs. evil. SharePoint 2010 has a secret plot to run the world out of GUIDs and between you and me I think it has a good shot of accomplishing its goal. Well, me and boy wonder (aka Todd ) have seen the pain and suffering they are trying to evoke and we have plan...