Site Collection Backups and Workflow Portability in SharePoint 2010
Do you trust TechNet? I generally do, as I figure the good folks at Microsoft are doing their best to disseminate reliable information to those of us working with their products. As I recently...
View ArticleConfiguration-Only Backup and Restore in SharePoint 2010
Since our SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery Guide is written, starched, pressed, and ready to wear, I thought it was time to get back to some of the blogging I promised to start doing again once the...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Cmdlets
I recently authored a blog post titled “Configuration-Only Backup and Restore in SharePoint 2010,” and in that post I tried to address some of the false hopes and misunderstandings I saw arising around...
View ArticleClient-Server Interactions and the max-age Attribute with SharePoint BLOB...
I first presented (in some organized capacity) on SharePoint’s platform caching capabilities at SharePoint Saturday Ozarks in June of 2010, and since that time I’ve consistently received a growing...
View ArticleFinding Duplicate GUIDs in Your SharePoint Site Collection
This is a bit of an oldie, but I figured it might help one or two random readers. Let me start by saying something right off the bat: you should never need what I’m about to share. Of course, how many...
View ArticleCrashing OWSTIMER.EXE after SharePoint 2010 SP1 Installation
After much anticipation, Microsoft finally released service pack 1 (SP1) for SharePoint 2010 earlier last week. Like so many other SharePoint professionals, I headed out to Microsoft’s site and pulled...
View ArticleMirror, Mirror, In the Farm …
This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for some time, but I’m only now getting around to it. It’s a quick one, and it’s intended to share a couple of observations and a script that may be of use to...
View ArticleDo You Know What’s Going to Happen When You Enable the SharePoint BLOB Cache?
The topic of the SharePoint BLOB Cache and how it operates jumped back into the front of my brain recently given some conversations I’ve had and things I’ve seen (e.g., a promising CodePlex project...
View ArticleFinding a GUID in a SharePoint Haystack
Here’s another blog post to file in the “I’ll probably never need it, but you never know” bucket of things you’ve seen from me. Admittedly, I don’t get to spend as much time as I’d like playing with...
View ArticleIs a Higher SharePoint Backup Thread Count Better?
Scalability in the hardware and software space is all about parallel computing nowadays. Consider our modern hardware: it used to be that all we really cared about was how fast our CPU could run (“how...
View ArticleConfiguration-Only Backup and Restore in SharePoint 2010
Since our SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery Guide is written, starched, pressed, and ready to wear, I thought it was time to get back to some of the blogging I promised to start doing again once the...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Cmdlets
I recently authored a blog post titled “Configuration-Only Backup and Restore in SharePoint 2010,” and in that post I tried to address some of the false hopes and misunderstandings I saw arising around...
View ArticleClient-Server Interactions and the max-age Attribute with SharePoint BLOB...
I first presented (in some organized capacity) on SharePoint’s platform caching capabilities at SharePoint Saturday Ozarks in June of 2010, and since that time I’ve consistently received a growing...
View ArticleFinding Duplicate GUIDs in Your SharePoint Site Collection
This is a bit of an oldie, but I figured it might help one or two random readers. Let me start by saying something right off the bat: you should never need what I’m about to share. Of course, how many...
View ArticleCrashing OWSTIMER.EXE after SharePoint 2010 SP1 Installation
After much anticipation, Microsoft finally released service pack 1 (SP1) for SharePoint 2010 earlier last week. Like so many other SharePoint professionals, I headed out to Microsoft’s site and pulled...
View ArticleMirror, Mirror, In the Farm …
This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for some time, but I’m only now getting around to it. It’s a quick one, and it’s intended to share a couple of observations and a script that may be of use to...
View ArticleDo You Know What’s Going to Happen When You Enable the SharePoint BLOB Cache?
The topic of the SharePoint BLOB Cache and how it operates jumped back into the front of my brain recently given some conversations I’ve had and things I’ve seen (e.g., a promising CodePlex project...
View ArticleFinding a GUID in a SharePoint Haystack
Here’s another blog post to file in the “I’ll probably never need it, but you never know” bucket of things you’ve seen from me. Admittedly, I don’t get to spend as much time as I’d like playing with...
View ArticleIs a Higher SharePoint Backup Thread Count Better?
Scalability in the hardware and software space is all about parallel computing nowadays. Consider our modern hardware: it used to be that all we really cared about was how fast our CPU could run (“how...
View ArticleQuick Tips for Managing the SharePoint 2010 Office Web Applications Cache
One of the hotly anticipated items in SharePoint 2010’s feature set is the introduction of the Microsoft Office Web Applications, or “Office Web Apps” for short. The release of the Office Web Apps...
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