Yet another SharePoint BLOG

A colleague of mine recently blogged about the difficulties of a managing SharePoint environment with a mixture of standard users enterprise. In short, he came to the conclusion that it isn’t a viable solution – a conclusion that I’d whole heartedly support given the grief it causes us both each day. If I had my [...]

When I have a little spare time I like to look at my twitter feed for interesting BLOG posts. Often, if I find a well written article I’ll go back to see what the author has posted in the past. It was this process that caused me to stumble over this year old post by [...]

MCS UK have launched a blog http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint/default.aspx I’ll be keeping my eye out for the guys I know. No slacking now fellas!

I’m interested in people’s opinions about automating Sharepoint installations. We aim to automate everything, in fact if someone needs to touch a key or mouse button we have to through a policy waiver process. In principal I think this is a great idea. It allows us to have a “self service” server provisioning system where [...]

I’ve been tinkering with running WSS on the Windows 7 beta over the weekend and was going to post the steps I had to take to make it work, but it appears I’m a little late to the party as Wictor Wilen posted this all the way back on Thursday. I felt like the only [...]

By now, you’ve probably read about the demise of Journalspace. For those that haven’t an entire blogging service with an Alexa page rank of 106,881 has been wiped out (allegedly) by a disgruntled, malicious employee. It turns out that their content was stored in a single database on a RAID1 array and wasn’t backed up. [...]

It’s a reality of the world we currently live in that companies (especially in the financial sector) don’t have the budgets that once had. In the past we’d quote for a few extra servers, multiple backup/restore solutions and any number of test environments “just in case.” Now as a customer as well as an employee, [...]