Hi all Welcome to part 5 in my attempt to make SharePoint performance management a little more accessible. Now that we have dealt with the world of request per second in parts two, three and four, we will focus our …
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Hi all. Welcome to part 4 of a rapidly growing series of posts on trying to take some of the mystery out of SharePoint performance management. Essentially I am trying to write a sort of preamble to the existing Microsoft …
Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 4 – Making use of RPS Read more »
Hi and welcome back to this series aimed at making SharePoint performance management a little more digestible. In the first post we examined the difference between lead and lag indicators and in the second post, we specifically looked at the …
Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 3 – Getting at RPS Read more »
Hi all I never mentioned it in the first post that the reason I am blogging again is I finally completed most of the game Skyrim. Man – that game is dangerous if you value your time! Anyway, in the …
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Hi all and welcome to my 6th post on the weird and wonderful world of cloud computing. The recurring theme in this series has been to point out that the technological aspects of cloud computing have never really been the …
The cloud isn’t the problem–Part 6: The pros and cons of patriotism Read more »
Hi all You would think that after years of installing SharePoint in various scenarios, that I would be able to get past step 3 in the configuration wizard (the step that creates the configuration database). But today I almost got …
An obscure “failed to create the configuration database” issue… Read more »
Hi all Just a quick note to mention that I’m off travelling again, this time swapping 39 degree Celsius summer weather of Perth for somewhere between –6 to 5 degrees of Canada. I’ll be spending a week in Canada running …
An opportunity to learn about aligning SharePoint to business goals in Vancouver Read more »
Hi all Welcome to my fifth post that delves into the irrational world of cloud computing. After examining the not-so-obvious aspects of Microsoft, Amazon and the industry more broadly, its time to shift focus a little. Now the appeal of …
The cloud isn’t the problem–Part 5: Server huggers and a crisis of identity Read more »
Hi all Welcome to the fourth post about the adaptive change that cloud computing is going to have on practitioners, paradigms and organisations. The previous two posts took a look at some of the dodgier side of two of the …
The cloud is not the problem-Part 4: Industry shakeout and playing with the big kids… Read more »
What can Ikea fails tell us about cloud computing? My next door neighbour is a builder. When he moved next door, the house was an old piece of crap. Within 6 months, he completely renovated it himself, adding in two …
The cloud is not the problem–Part 3: When silos strike back… Read more »