TechNet has announced forget the "Super Bowl", Windows Server 2008 has RTM'd!!!  The features that I'm looking forward to in Windows Server 2008 are: Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 – Modular architecture, high levels of administration Terminal Services Gateway – Allows access to apps without the need for a RAS client Power ...[Read More]

There's an updated version of the Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System available for download. While speaking of Best Practices, check out SharePoint Best Practices post by George. Direct link [sharepointbpa.exe] ...[Read More]

Mart Muller has a great summary post regarding Microsoft's recently released technical whitepaper Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Hosting. Check his post out then check out the technical whitepaper as he points out what is inside this 40+ page document.  He lists the best practices for: Initial activities Schedule part of planning Com ...[Read More]

Defering content after users sees the page can be very beneficial. Why? Using this technique, the page is rendered much more quickly, while the user's experience of interacting with the site is not negatively impacted. If you’ve implemented or are planning to implement a Internet facing website, you are probably exploring all avenues to make it ...[Read More]

Bob Fox has done a great job on providing screencasts for some administrative functions in SharePoint 2007 and we all hope he continues doing a great job. There are several screencasts that he has produced and today I'm going to focus on Working with Managed Paths [direct link to Managed Paths demo]. Why is this screencast important for a Share ...[Read More]

For those that were looking forward to this, Microsoft has just released the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Management Pack monitors the health and state of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The Management Pack does the following: Monitors events placed in the application event log Highlights events that might indicate poss ...[Read More]

This Management Pack quickly brings any failures or configuration problems to your attention, which increases the availability and performance of Office SharePoint Server 2007. This Management Pack also provides the knowledge and expertise you need to leverage Operations Manager 2007 and get an immediate return on your investment. This Managemen ...[Read More]

It is possible to manually change the SharePoint Timer Service account: From a command prompt change to the directory where the SharePoint Timer Service is running C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN Run the command stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -identitytype configurableid -userlogin domain\account - ...[Read More]

Key characteristics describe environmental factors, usage characteristics, and other considerations that are likely to be found in deployments based on this scenario. The key characteristics for this scenario include: User response times : Target user response times for common, uncommon, long-running, and rare operations are listed in the &quo ...[Read More]

By default, Search Services can crawl and filter a file with a size of up to 16 megabytes (MB). It will always crawl the first 16MB of a file. After this limit is reached, SharePoint Portal Server enters a warning in the gatherer log “The file reached the maximum download limit. Check that the full text of the document can be meaningfully crawled. ...[Read More]