Hi all and welcome to the final article in my series on SharePoint performance management – for now anyway. Once SharePoint 2013 goes RTM, I might revisit this topic if it makes sense to, but some other blogging topics have …

Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 11 – Tales from the Microsoft labs Read more »

Hi all and welcome to the tenth article in my series on demystifying SharePoint performance management. I do feel that we are getting toward the home stretch here. If you go way back to Part 1, I stated my intent …

Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 10 – More tools of the trade… Read more »

Last year, Peter Serzo and I presented at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference in DC. We did an extremely serious talk called “SharePoint and SQL Reporting Services 2008 for the really really good looking” which rated rather well. As part …

SharePoint Webcasts: Reporting Services for the Really Really Good Looking Read more »

In the words of Doctor Smith from lost in space, while everyone else was in Vegas having a grand old time, I was at a client site, having to come to grips with the beast known as Windows Small Business …

SBS 2008, Hewlett Packard, WSS3, Search Server 2008 Express and a UPS – Oh the pain! Read more »

think as you age, you become more and more like your parents. Not so long ago I went out paintballing with some friends and we all agreed that the 16-18 year olds who also happened to be there were all obnoxious little twerps who needed a good kick in the rear. At the same time, we also agreed that we were just as obnoxious back when we were that age. Your perspective changes as you learn and your experience grows, but you don’t forget where you came from…

SharePoint, for a number of reasons, is one of those products that has a way of really laying bare any gaps that the organisation has in terms of their overall maturity around technology and strategy…

  I am working on an essay about IT complexity at the moment, and one thing that sprung into my mind while thinking about this, is the fact that many of my clients seem to think I am some sort …

SQL God? No… I just know how to do a maintenance plan Read more »