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 »
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 »
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 …
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 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 …
Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 2 – So what is RPS anyway? 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 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 »