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March 2009 - Quest SharePoint Experts Mirror

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  • Speaking at European SharePoint Best Practices Conference

    Body: I will be speaking at the SharePoint Best Practices conference in London England, April 6 th -8 th . As usual, I will be focused on administrative and architectural topics such as performance, capacity planning, SQL, storage, virtualization, backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery all crammed into 3 sessions: Monday April 6 th 1:15 to 2:30 IT106 - SharePoint, SQL, and Storage: Best practices for a winning combination Monday April 6 th 4:15 – 5:30 IT104 – Capacity Planning and Performance Tuesday April 7 th 3:00 – 4:15 IT108 - Best Practices for Data Protection, Recovery, and Availability You can also find me at one or more IT pro ask the experts panels and later at any pub serving good beer. Look forward to seeing you there! More info at http://www.sharepointbestpractices...
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  • SharePoint Designer – More than a Maybe

    I just finished reading a write up of a SharePoint Designer Good Bad Ugly as “SharePoint Designer a definite Maybe” by Mark Rackley. I think he makes some good points early in the document, but many of the conclusions which come across biased to structured deployments I don’t agree with as they relate to composite commodity and collaboration environments. Some of the statements especially his conclusions are just too wide sweeping and come across as scare tactics. Don’t let this come across as higher ground… I make the same mistake some times in my attempts to keep people from deploying custom site definitions due to their impact at upgrade, but that’s a different discussion. Often it takes a good post to get the community stirred up to flush out the details… I applaud Mark on making a stand...

  • SharePint Amsterdam – Date and Venue Set for Apr 3

    After a full day of SharePoint Day with the Experts : Amsterdam I know we’re going to be hungry and tired and want to talk more SharePoint?!! Of course! You can’t get enough of the good stuff. So we’ll relax with SharePint by Night in Amsterdam. Friday, April 3 7:00PM SharePoint by Day SharePint by Night Venue: De Veranda Amstelveenseweg 764 Amsterdam http://www.deveranda.nl/ (in Dutch) We’ve got our own spot and can support 100 people. Meet up begins at 19:00 (7PM). We have donations to cover drinks by Zevenseas, SDN, and Quest until 10pm. Hope to see you there! Even if you don’t come from the event come hang out and chat! Attendee list so far: @JoelOleson, @MikeWat, @DanielMc, @RobinMeure, @Waldekm, @Chris_Hougardy ++ add your twitter alias to the comments. Read More...

  • Ten Cool Branded SharePoint Global Internet Sites You can RAVE About!

    Body: A while back I thought about creating a list of top 100, but then I saw that Ian Morrish has been doing a good job on his SharePoint Internet Websites list and has actually taken thumbnails to build his own top 100 MOSS Sites list . Rather than reinvent the wheel I decided to take a cut at sites from amongst his full list and more recent MOSS announcements, like Ferrari and the Cadbury… mmm. It’s not that we don’t want to keep talking about Hawaiianair.com which by the way is still super cool, we need to have a quick global COOOL list we can refer to. I tried to provide a sampling across industry, region of the world, and style. (Note many of these sites have other systems integrated on the backend as well, navigation may take you to pages not served by SharePoint. At a minimum I have...

  • SharePoint Day with the Experts: Amsterdam

    Body: I'll be speaking at the upcoming day with the experts in Amsterdam. Come join me for an interactive and lively discussion on SharePoint backup/restore where I will try to put it all in perspective. Here's my session abstract: Backup Demystified – Does SharePoint backup and restore mystify you? Does your current backup solution seem inadequate? Want to learn how to put it all together and build the perfect solution but don't know where to begin? In this session, Mike Watson, former architect for Microsoft Online, will help you put backup/restore in perspective. Mike will give you the information you need to understand your options and formulate the perfect backup and recovery strategy. Click here for details and registration Category: SharePoint High Availability Published...

  • Half of 10 Winning Best Intranets of 2009 use SharePoint

    Body: If you happened to miss the report of top Intranet’s of 2009. Six of the 10 winners used SharePoint in their deployments. I highly recommend reading the report. Here’s some highlights from the report. I was very impressed by the findings. Great insights into ROI, scenarios, and usability. Compliments: Jakob Nielsen 's Alertbox, January 5, 2009 useit.com Alertbox Jan. 2009 Intranet Design Annual Summary: ”Intranets are getting more strategic, with increased collaboration support. Team size is growing by 12% per year, and platforms are becoming integrated, with a strong showing for SharePoint .” Congratulations to the winners of the award for 10 best-designed intranets for 2009: Altran, a large engineering and innovation consultancy (France) Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a developer...

  • Upcoming User Groups and SPSaturday’s Not to Miss!

    Beyond the User Groups in Europe and Egypt, I’m back on tour in the U.S. for the DC and Atlanta SharePoint Saturday before I go on my mandated June Paternal Leave. Yep, my baby is due June 1st and I’ve committed to not traveling after Tech Ed (yep, I’ve got a SQL & SharePoint session) to July 1st when I fly out for NZ SharePoint Conference. I’m now looking at India, Singapore, China? for something this fall possibly combined UG tour with Michael Noel. I’ve committed to some events to put on your calendar. Apr 16 – Alabama SharePoint User Group Apr 18 – Atlanta SharePoint Saturday Apr 23 – Mexico City Latam Apr 29 – Richmond User Group Luncheon / Hampton Roads User Group Arp 30 – Special UG session May 2 – DC SharePoint Saturday Read More...

  • I’m Speaking at SharePoint Conference New Zealand July

    I love this Vanilla Ice reference: Stop, Collaborate and Listen! “SharePoint has rapidly become one of the most popular technology platforms for information workers through out New Zealand so it's about time we all got together and shared our experiences and expertise as the community that we are. This will be the New Zealand conference to learn about SharePoint 2007 with expert local and international speakers presenting on topics that will help you understand and succeed with your SharePoint implementations and add real value to your organization and businesses. In addition to the session content you'll have ample opportunities to network with your peers in the community and technical and industry experts including local and international Microsoft Most Valued Professionals and New...

  • SharePoint Documentation – Why Does it Stink?

    I hear there’s a problem these days of people saying…. I’ve got the governance doc, so I’m now good to deploy. I’m now going to have a successful deployment. Have I created a monster? In my attempts at addressing the lack of planning and of awareness around designing a service not just installing software, I find more and more are now realizing that “Governance” is something they were missing, but was it really that they were missing a service definition, missing an exec sponsor, missing roles and responsibilities. Governance has become a buzzword, and the original definition is being lost despite my attempts at defining it as designing a service offering. Governance uses people, process and technology to define a service [offering], mitigate conflict within an organization [and across multiple...

  • The proper order of Server Virtualization in SharePoint

    Body: In my performance and capacity planning discussions, I talk about the proper order of server virtualization within SharePoint. For example, it might make sense to virtualize your web servers and query servers first as these roles typically require less hardware resources and scale out well across multiple VM's with little configuration effort. Next, for those using MOSS enterprise, the Excel role might be a candidate for virtualization. Typically, Excel is thought of as a resource hog and I would say that's true when used for heavy calculation and rendering, but I think for most enterprises, Excel is not yet being leveraged heavily. Additionally, Excel is scale out friendly as it requires little configuration to leverage multiple VM's. These factors make Excel a good candidate...
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  • Joel’s European and Egypt Tour

    PARIS Club MOSS March 31st http://clubmoss2007.org/default.aspx Details to follow (Erol will be providing me a link) COLOGNE/KOELN/Köln, GERMANY < Register and more details here > User Group site and further details 1. Regionaltreffen: SharePoint User Group Köln 1. April 2009 – 1. SharePoint UserGroup Treffen in Köln o Beginn: 18:00 Uhr o Ort: Quest Software GmbH, Im Media Park 4e. 50670 Köln Ein besonderes Higlight an diesem Abend ist der Gastredner: Joel Oleson, früher Senior Technical Product Manager für SharePoint bei Microsoft in Redmond (er hat u.a. das erste globale SharePoint Deployment bei Microsoft geleitet), heute bei Quest als SharePoint Evangelist tätig und einer der bekanntest SharePoint Blogger (sharepointjoel.com ) weltweit. mit einem Vortrag zum Thema: 10 Steps to Successful...

  • Specifying alternate repository database with -rd command line option

    This feature was introduced in a version 5.0 "hotfix" and was included in the 5.1.1 patch release. The Notes Migrator for SharePoint Migration Console now supports the ability to read a repository database argument from the command-line. To use this feature, open a command prompt and start the console like this: mmc.exe C:\NotesSharePoint\Migrator\MigratorConsole\migratorconsole.msc -rd=YourTemporaryRepository.nsf The console will start with the database you specified. As long as you don’t save your configuration, your former repository will be used the next time you start the console without the “–rd” parameter. To indicate an alternate repository is loaded, the Root Node label in the navigation tree will have the repository name appended. Example: "Notes Migrator for SharePoint...

  • SharePoint Ads – Huge Leap for the Community

    Body: At Tech Ed last year I spent a lot of time talking with the SharePoint vendor booths trying to help provide feedback and understand the solutions so as an architect I would know who to recommend when. The biggest problem for a good SharePoint solution is awareness. No one knows all of the solutions or even of the top solutions, their is so many solutions it’s tough to know what’s good. One thing I really noticed was how open and willing they were to work with me for $$ and really wanted to share their solutions. With thousands of SharePoint vendors SharePointReviews.com made a HUGE leap in our ability to understand SharePoint independent software vendors and their SharePoint solutions and in an unbiased way. One conversation I had with Inna Gordin, the master mind behind SharePointReviews...

  • Name.dll SharePoint ActiveX control removal

    Body: Some people were getting prompted to run an activeX control named name.dll when rendering this site. I'm not sure why this control was being called especially since this site is based on the WSS blog template and all client and presence integration features are turned off. Regardless, I went ahead and modified default.master so this shouldn't happen anymore. To learn more about resolving this problem on WSS see: http://weblogs.asp.net/gunnarpeipman/archive/2009/03/17/sharepoint-solving-the-name-dll-activex-problem-the-easy-way.aspx For more information on this problem see Microsoft's kb: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931509 Category: Random Published: 3/24/2009 11:08 AM Read More...
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  • New CBTs available for Notes Migrator for SharePoint

    Our EMEA support team (one of three global support centers where you can get awesome support on my product) has recently put together a series of Computer Based Training labs on installing and using Notes Migrator for SharePoint . Of course their immediate objective was to better support customers who might be struggling with certain aspects of the product, but (as usual) these guys have over-achieved and what they delivered was an entire training course! The table of contents for the first release is shown below. Each of the links points to a "solution" on the Quest SupportLink web site. A login is required. Any Quest customer should have an account on this site, but if you don't have one, a really good way to get one is to register to download a free trial version of Notes Migrator...
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