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 It seems to me that many SharePoint consultancies think their job is done when recommending a topology based on: Looking up Microsoft’s server recommendations for CPU and RAM and then doubling them for safety Giving the SQL Database …
Hi all Just a quick note for those of you who are of the academic persuasion or who have an interest in research and academic literature. Kailash and I wrote a paper for the International Journal for Managing Projects in …
Hi all There are a couple of conferences happening this month that you should seriously consider attending. The New Zealand and Australian SharePoint Community Conferences. This year things have changed. There are over 50 Sessions designed to cater to …
Warts and all SharePoint caveats in Melbourne and Auckland 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 »
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 »