March 2009 - Quest SharePoint Team

Bridiging the Gap: Enterprise Backup vs SharePoint Specific Restore Requirements

I recently came across an article called " Are application-specific backup tools worth it? " by Simon Sharwood. The article compares enterprise backup vendor approach to point application specific solutions, using SharePoint as an example. I think, in this article Simon brings up one of the most important issues that we are solving with Quest Recovery Manager for SharePoint : how to connect cross-application enterprise backup efficiency with the need for granular SharePoint-specific recovery...

Published Wed, Mar 25 2009 5:03 PM by Ilia Sotnikov

Filed under: SharePoint, Quest, disaster recovery, backup, granular recovery, Recovery Manager, SharePoint 2007

Some feedback on Reorg Wizard

It's really gratifying to hear from people who the tool helps with their day-to-day work. Alex Clark from the UK blogged about his experience with the Reorg Wizard beta: http://sharepointcoding.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/quest-reorganization-wizard-beta/. It came in handy for the SharePoint site reorganizations his company was doing: " We have been using this Beta version to move some subsites around in our WSS farm. I was impressed with the fact that the move keeps the Auditing data as an...

Published Tue, Mar 24 2009 5:16 PM by Alex Kirillov

Filed under: operations, Migration Manager, Reorg Wizard, SharePoint 2007

Key Resources for Administrators - Deployment

Key Resources on SharePoint Deployment for IT Architects SharePoint Deployment Essentials Guide and Checklist SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool Capacity Planning and Performance Information (resources and tools links) & Performance and capacity planning resource center SharePoint and SQL Storage Resources Plan to deploy SharePoint Server 2007 Globally Best Practices Resource Center Logical/Information Architecture for a Corporate Environment Webcasts TechNet Webcast: SharePoint...

Published Wed, Mar 18 2009 2:26 AM by Joel Oleson

Let's Discuss the new Quest DiscussionView WebPart Beta

This week Quest released in Beta form a new WebPart for improved Discussions in SharePoint 2007. A lot of this was driven by our great success in Notes Migrations. One problem is that Notes folks are very used to dynamic and easy discussions in Notes, but when they hit SharePoint 2007 it's a bit of a disappointment. Discussions in SharePoint 2007 have a couple of glaring challenges. First off you can't see the post you are replying to, and if it's a long one there is a lot of back and...

Published Tue, Mar 17 2009 4:22 PM by Doug Davis

Filed under: Discussions, WebParts, DiscussionView

Reorg Wizard Beta Update

Hello everyone! We have just updated the beta of Reorg Wizard for SharePoint, which was announced this Monday . So what's new in this version? You can see site details for the site you select to move. Displayed are the site title and a few key site metrics (see screenshots below). You can open the site in the browser right from the tool window - no need to copy/paste URLs to see what's on the site The site information is automatically updated after you modify the site structure using Reorg...

Published Fri, Mar 6 2009 11:34 PM by Alex Kirillov

Filed under: Migration Manager, Reorg Wizard, SharePoint 2007

SharePoint Disaster Recovery Advisor Tool Now Available as Freeware!

So, you’re doing your SharePoint farm backups regularly with Central Administration, or maybe with a scheduled a batch file that runs stsadm backup with the “ -backupmethod full ” option. Such backups include all content databases, index files, and the configuration database. The configuration database, however, will not be restored when you need to bring the farm back! The reasons for this are described in this TechNet article , in short – you don’t want to run into...

Published Fri, Mar 6 2009 12:18 AM by Ilia Sotnikov

Filed under: SharePoint, Quest, disaster recovery, backup, Recovery Manager, SharePoint 2007

Announcing Migration Manager Reorg Wizard Beta

Hi everyone! Right after we released the first version Migration Manager for SharePoint back in January 2008, we immediately started hearing from our customers, sales and consultants that they really need Migration Manager to support 07-07 content migration. Many mentioned that they want to reorganize oversized site collections by promoting portions of the site tree to become new site collections. Splitting overgrown content databases was also high on the wish list. And just moving SharePoint sites...

Published Mon, Mar 2 2009 10:49 PM by Alex Kirillov

Filed under: SharePoint, Quest, operations, Migration, Migration Manager, Reorg Wizard, SharePoint 2007

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