Hi and welcome to Part 9 (bloody hell… nine!) of my series on trying to demystify SharePoint performance management a bit. If by any chance you have been asked to provide some sizing information for your organisation and you are …

Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 9 – Don’t believe everything you R/W Read more »

Well here we are at part 8 of my series on making SharePoint performance management that little bit easier to understand. What is interesting about this series is its timing. If by some minute chance that the marketing tsunami has …

Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 8 – More on SQL and SQLIO Read more »

Hi all, and welcome to part 7 of this series on SharePoint performance planning. This is the point of the series where I realise that I have much more to write about than I intended. Last time this happened I …

Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 7 – Getting at Latency, IOPS and MBPS Read more »

Hi all Welcome to part 6 on my series in making SharePoint performance management that little more digestible. To recap where we have been, I introduced the series by comparing lead versus lag indicators before launching into an examination of …

Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 6 – The unholy trinity of Latency, IOPS and MBPS Read more »

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 …

Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 5 – So what is latency anyway? Read more »

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 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 »

I was surprised to see the recent SharePoint Fatigue Syndrome post got some traction in the interweb. As it happened, that particular post was kicking around in an unfinished state for months. The thing is, its not the only “home …

Why SharePoint training sometimes doesn’t deliver (and what to do about it) Read more »

I’ve been nerding it up lately SharePointwise, doing the geeky things that geeks like to do like ADFS and Claims Authentication. So in between trying to get my book fully edited ready for publishing, I might squeeze out the odd …

Troubleshooting SharePoint (People) Search 101 Read more »