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SUGUK Manchester: Information Architecture for SharePoint Server
Spencer Harbar
pEarlier this week I presented a session at the SharePoint User Group UK Manchester event. Shout out to Mark Stokes for organising yet another great SUGUK event. This session was an introduction/overview of IA for SharePoint, and also highlighted the key new features in this realm within SharePoint Server 2010. For those interested you can download the slide deck below./p blockquote pstronga href="http://www.harbar.net/presentations/suguk_ia.pdf"Information Architecture for SharePoint Server/a/s [read].
Posted: about 15 hours ago. |
Groundhog Day: Configuring Back Connection Host Names using Group Policy
Spencer Harbar
pQuite some time ago I posted coverage of the stronga href="http://www.harbar.net/archive/2009/07/02/disableloopbackcheck-amp-sharepoint-what-every-admin-and-developer-should-know.aspx"DisableLoopbackCheck registry key and how it impacts SharePoint/a/strong. It’s amazing just how often this comes up on the Interwebz. Scarily the common advice given is to turn this feature off. And that’s bad advice. In my original post I detailed why. In a nutshell: OK in test/dev, NOT OK in Production. Ye [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 12th '10 |
Now Available: Interacting with the Excel Web Services API for SharePoint Server 2007
Spencer Harbar
pAn article I worked on recently has just been published to MSDN. The article walks developers through the basics of getting started with the powerful Excel Web Services API for building BI and Calculation based services on SharePoint Server 2007./p blockquote pemGet a quick start with the Excel Web Services API, which enables interaction with published Microsoft Office Excel 2007 workbooks in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 from a remote application. Learn considerations around session [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 9th '10 |
The best SharePoint Conference ever is back, with a vengeance!
Spencer Harbar
pNo disrespect to the SharePoint Team at Microsoft. They put on a *great* show. But well, ya know, it’s an official Microsoft conference, and some things are just done better by the community. Last year in April I flew into London exhausted after a crazy six weeks in Redmond for the strongSharePoint Best Practices Conference/strong. Despite really needing a months holiday, it was simply the best conference experience I’ve had in over 15 years. A *great* show, great content, great people, gre [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 8th '10 |
MUST READ: SharePointrsquo;s Sasquatch Memory Leak
Spencer Harbar
pOver on the rather natty looking new blog from PFE extraordinaire a href="http://todd-carter.com/"strongTodd Carter/strong/a, there are details of a serious issue with SharePoint that everyone should be familiar with. Check it out./p pa href="http://todd-carter.com/post/2010/02/08/SharePointe28099s-Sasquatch-Memory-Leak.aspx"strongTodd's Blog | SharePoint’s Sasquatch Memory Leak/strong/a/pimg src="http://www.harbar.net/aggbug/274.aspx" width="1" height="1" /div class="feedflare"
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Posted: Mon, Feb 8th '10 |
Tips and tricks for running SharePoint Server 2010 on Windows 7
Spencer Harbar
pWhilst I was one of the most stronga href="http://www.harbar.net/archive/2007/02/25/Office-SharePoint-Server-Developer-Edition.aspx"vocal advocates/a/strong for the ability to run SharePoint Server on the client OS, it wasn’t really something I ever thought I’d want to run myself. I understood why it was of critical importance to enable this scenario, but I’m a farm guy, topologies are my bag. When the beta release came about I slapped it on a old machine just to see it working and left i [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 8th '10 |
TechNet Misinformation: How NOT to use Kerberos for SharePoint Authentication
Spencer Harbar
pI’m somewhat aggrieved this morning, as I found a new article from TechNet entitled “stronga href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/ee914605.aspx"Using Kerberos for SharePoint Authentication/a/strong”. Now while this article is not supposed to be the be all and end all it is very depressing that still now, in 2010, such inaccurate and in some cases 100% wrong information is being put out there by the vendor. This is especially true given the work I have done in this space over the last [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 12th '10 |
Application Pool mis-configuration in SharePoint 2010
Spencer Harbar
pAs I’ve stronga href="http://www.harbar.net/archive/2009/12/04/more-on-sharepoint-2010-application-pools.aspx"previously detailed/a/strong there is a significant oddity with how SharePoint 2010 Beta creates Application Pools in IIS for the hosting of Service Applications and especially the two most important services in your farm, the STS and Topology. As mentioned these application pools are named with GUIDs./p
pUnfortunately when creating a Web Application, SharePoint 2010 uses the SharePo [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 16th '09 |
Application Pool Manager v3 (for SharePoint 2010)
Spencer Harbar
pWe are pleased to announce a new release of the popular Application Pool Manager. This version (v3) has been produced to support SharePoint 2010. We don’t have much in the way of fancy new features in this release, but we do have some good ideas for a future release around April and are always keen on other ideas we could incorporate./p pThe most important thing about this release is that it is targeted at SharePoint 2010 only. As such it only supports IIS7. This has allowed us to remove all [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 7th '09 |
More on SharePoint 2010 Application Pools
Spencer Harbar
pBlimey! My recent stronga href="http://www.harbar.net/archive/2009/12/02/sharepoint-server-2010-worker-processes.aspx"post about worker processes/a/strong generated a large number of follow up questions. Instead of answering all of these individually, this post will cover the details and perhaps be useful as a reference in the future./p pBefore I get started there is one thing which perhaps is obvious, but needs to be made clear: SharePoint 2010 is a strongbeta/strong release. It is always poss [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 4th '09 |
Microsoft SharePoint Connections 2010, Amsterdam
Spencer Harbar
pI’m honoured to be one of the speakers at the upcoming a href="http://www.devconnections.com/speurope/"strongSharePoint Connections 2010/strong/a event in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on the 18th and 19th January. It promises to be a great show with lots of great 2010 content and speakers. The general goal of the event is to deliver highlights from the SharePoint Conference earlier this year in Las Vegas to the European audience as well as offering significant networking opportunities. Its all [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 3rd '09 |
SharePoint Server 2010 Worker Processes
Spencer Harbar
pRecently a number of people have asked about the number of worker processes which are alive on a new install of SharePoint Server 2010 and the associated other processes which amongst other things increase the resource requirements (primarily RAM) for running SharePoint 2010 over SharePoint 2007. This post will explain the core changes here and what you can expect to see following the installation and farm configuration./p pAs with SharePoint 2007, or any other .NET based web application for th [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 2nd '09 |
SharePoint 2010 pre-requisites installer and other setup refinements point the way to more consistent deployments
Spencer Harbar
pSmall things can make a big difference. But what seems small and simple often isn’t. I personally wouldn’t want to be the guy who looks after the myriad pre-requisites for SharePoint Server 2010. :)/p pBut SharePoint 2010 has a pre-requisite installer, just like SQL Server, and it’s good. In addition there are numerous other setup refinements which are a testament to a key drive of the latest version, enterprise readiness. It was promised and it’s been delivered. Sure, some improvement [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 24th '09 |
Single Server Complete Install of SharePoint 2010 using local accounts - From The Field
Spencer Harbar
My good buddy and fellow SharePoint Certified Master, Neil ‘The Doc’ Hodgkinson has an excellent little post over on the From the Field blog on setting up SharePoint 2010 the way you want to for the purposes of running a farm on a single machine. Check it out! Single Server Complete Install of SharePoint 2010 using local accounts - From The Field [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 20th '09 |
SharePoint 2010: Developer Tools Overview
Spencer Harbar
SharePoint 2010 ups the ante with it's developer tool integration, providing developers with rich development time, testing and application lifecycle support. This article provides an overview of the new features and improvements along with powerful out of the box capabilities for improving the developer experience with SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010: Developer Tools Overview [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 19th '09 |
SharePoint 2010: Enterprise Readiness
Spencer Harbar
SharePoint 2010 has made huge investments in enterprise readiness, from core architecture to the deployment experience, to runtime diagnostics and operational service management. Along with significant investments in tooling, and field readiness, SharePoint 2010 delivers the promise of enterprise readiness. This article highlights key feature areas and their impact on your deployments. SharePoint 2010: Enterprise Readiness [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 19th '09 |
SharePoint 2010: Service Applications Part One: Model Overview
Spencer Harbar
The new Service Applications model in SharePoint 2010 presents significant improvements to the scalability of the SharePoint platform and offers tremendously exciting opportunities for developers and ISVs. This article delves into the the Service Applications model and architecture, providing developers and IT Pros essential information on the new foundation of shared services in SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010: Service Applications Part One: Model Overview| [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 19th '09 |
SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference
Spencer Harbar
Last April the first European SharePoint Best Practices conference was a stunning success. Feedback from those “working” the show and attendees alike was fantastic. Not only were the technical breakout sessions first rate, featuring unique content and some of the best names in the SharePoint world, but the conference had a real community buzz. The SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference promises to the premier SharePoint event outside the United States. We are back in London, 19th – 21st Apr [read].
Posted: Sat, Oct 17th '09 |
SharePoint Conference: Vegas!
Spencer Harbar
In just about two weeks, the SharePoint Community is descending upon Las Vegas for the 2009 SharePoint Conference. This will be the big coming out party for SharePoint Server 2010 and along with the conference itself promises to be a ton of fun. If you work with SharePoint this is a must attend event and it will be very interesting to see the continued growth of this event from it’s humble beginnings in Bellevue a few years back. I’ll be presenting a couple of sessions. Unfortunately I can [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 6th '09 |
Now Available – MSDN: Building Records Management Solutions with SharePoint Server 2007
Spencer Harbar
An article I worked on recently has just been published to MSDN. The article walks developers through the basics of getting started with building solutions on the powerful Records Management platform available in Office SharePoint Server 2007. Learn records management features and concepts, such as Records Center configuration, and records series planning and routing, and explore the Official File Web service and a sample client application to create and deploy a custom router with a routing ty [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 20th '09 |
Digital Media Home Saga Part Two: Media Center
Spencer Harbar
After a considerable amount of experimentation, I decided on the basic setup for my digital media requirements. In a nutshell this is a Windows Home Server, and a Windows 7 Media Center. This post will focus on the Media Center, which I will call MCE to save me some typing. The software is the real discussion here. I’ve used all iterations of MCE, and to be perfectly frank, the previous incarnations just weren’t up to scratch. Too many loose ends and issues with codecs and TV tuners and the [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 20th '09 |
Digital Media Home Saga Part One: Requirements
Spencer Harbar
As some of you will know I’ve been over time working on a setup in the house for digital media. Recently a surprising amount of people have asked me to blog about it and my experiences. So here goes with part one of a mini series of off topic posts about it. Whilst I am a computer geek, I don’t like mess and I certainly don’t like servers in my home. Nasty computers in the living room is also a big no-no. As many of you know I am also *seriously* into music. Over the past six years I’ve [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 20th '09 |
Full Metal Architect | Disabling PAC Validation: More than meets the eyes
Spencer Harbar
Marc has a good post detailing his experiences when attempting to validate “performance myths” out there on the interweb. It’s good stuff. He doesn’t talk about the default behaviour in Windows Server 2008, however it’s very valuable. It’s also refreshing to see someone actually test stuff related to SharePoint in his environment, rather than just gobbling up crappy recommendations and “best practices” from the blogosphere. Full Metal Architect | Disabling PAC Validation: More t [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 18th '09 |
DisableLoopbackCheck & SharePoint: What every admin and developer should know.
Spencer Harbar
Earlier today a Twitter conversation amongst some SharePoint people including my good buddies Todd Klindt and Rick Taylor took place on the subject of the infamous “loopback fix”. I promised to do a follow up post here to clear up some misconceptions about this subject with respect to SharePoint. What is the issue? Windows Server 2003 SP1 introduced a loopback security check. This feature is obviously also present in Windows Server 2008. The feature prevents access to a web application usin [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 2nd '09 |
SDN Session Recap: SharePoint Architecture, Myths & Kerberos
Spencer Harbar
I greatly enjoyed my recent trip to Houten, Netherlands to present at the SDN event. Many thanks to the SDN crowd and those that attended my sessions and of course the SharePint event afterwards. It was a very impressive event in terms of organisation and the other great speakers and content. Here are the slide decks from my three sessions as promised. Mythbusters: debunking common SharePoint Farm Misconceptions. Kerberos Part 1: No ticket touting here, does SharePoint add another head. Kerbero [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 1st '09 |
Learning Gateway Conference, Birmingham, July 15th
Spencer Harbar
One of the most interesting areas of late in the SharePoint world has been the rapid explosion in it’s adoption within the Education sector here in the UK. Accordingly, the fine folks over at the Learning Gateway User Group are holding a one day Conference on July 15 in Birmingham. The event takes place at the stunning Belfry – near where I used to live many moons ago, and features some top notch speakers and SMEs. If you are working in the education space, this is a must attend event. In a [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 22nd '09 |
SDN Event June 26th, Houten, Netherlands
Spencer Harbar
I will be speaking at the Software Development Network event in Houten, Netherlands on June 26th. SDN is a really strong community in the Netherlands and it is a great privilege to be selected as a speaker there amongst some other great talent. I will be presenting the following sessions: Mythbusters – debunking common SharePoint Farm Misconceptions. For admins and devs alike this popular session has once again been updated with brand new content around Agile Farms and planning for SharePoin [read].
Posted: Fri, May 29th '09 |
Configure disaster recovery across SharePoint farms by using SQL Server log shipping
Spencer Harbar
The excellent guidance over on TechNet regarding DR farms using Log Shipping has been updated with additional details for SP2 and some excellent coverage of pre-requisites, fundamental planning considerations and performance. Essential reading for SharePoint administrators (even if you haven’t implemented Log Shipping in your solution). Configure disaster recovery across SharePoint farms by using SQL Server log shipping [read].
Posted: Sun, May 24th '09 |
Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Attention: Important Information on Service Pack 2
Spencer Harbar
You simply must read this Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Attention: Important Information on Service Pack 2 [read].
Posted: Fri, May 22nd '09 |
Adventure Works Travel finally hits the web
Spencer Harbar
For those that have attended any of my recent sessions on SharePoint Web Content Management you will have already seen the Adventure Works Travel (AWT) sample site. This sample has now (finally) been released into the wild, and you can grab it at www.mssharepointdeveloper.com. Also available are a number of training modules which I contributed towards. On the right hand side, swivel the navigation to the SharePoint on the Web section to access the training and the sample. The AWT sample provides [read].
Posted: Mon, May 18th '09 |
Multiple SharePoint SSL Web Applications on Port 443
Spencer Harbar
On a number of occasions I’ve been asked for my “cheat sheet” for setting up multiple SharePoint Web Applications using SSL and listening on Port 443. Whilst this might seem a straightforward task there are a few key things about SSL which are not well enough known, and surprise surprise, SharePoint makes life a little more difficult due to it’s total ignorance of correct addressing. This article is basically a tidied up version of the cheat sheet, along with a little bit of further expl [read].
Posted: Mon, May 11th '09 |
Supportability of my Central Admin article approaches
Spencer Harbar
Recently a bunch of people have asked me about the supportability of the approaches to providing “high availability” for SharePoint Central Administration I detailed in my article SharePoint Central Administration: High Availability, Load Balancing, Security & General Recommendations. This short update is to clarify the situation following discussions with Microsoft Premier Field Engineers on the matter. Running Central Administration on more than one server in the farm is 100% supported [read].
Posted: Fri, May 8th '09 |
Reality check: Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2007
Spencer Harbar
At the end of last month, James Petrosky the acting Program Manager of the SharePoint Certified Master program introduced the first SharePoint MCMs over on the Master Blog, which was reposted by Dave Pae over on the SharePoint Team Blog. Since then the MCM has come up in a number of conversations on various blogs, in their comments and elsewhere. It is apparent from these that there remains some unfortunate misconceptions about the MCM and this post is an attempt to address them. For whatever re [read].
Posted: Thu, May 7th '09 |
Certified Master for SharePoint 2007 “R2”
Spencer Harbar
As you’ve probably noticed it’s been a little quiet here of late. Sorry about that. I’ve been pretty busy with various things. One of those things was undertaking the beta rotation (R2) of the Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2007 out in Redmond WA. Many people have asked me about the experience and so this post is an attempt to distill my impressions on the program. Please note that at the time of writing I do not know if I have passed – more on that later. I’m not going to s [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 28th '09 |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers
Spencer Harbar
[Via Mirjam] This has been around for ages, but I never saw it originally. It includes tenants of the right approach to blogging. Some of my favorites include: Blogs that are purely self-promotional can quickly fizzle out. Be outwardly focused, rather than self-focused. Find other bloggers in your niche that you respect and work with them rather than against them. Get away from the computer once in a while and do something recreational or creative. Essential reading for the SharePoint blogosph [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 23rd '09 |
Understanding Field Controls and Web Parts in SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites
Spencer Harbar
I spend *way* too much time talking to customers about Web Parts versus Field Controls. Especially on migration projects when folks are doing feature comparison matrix type work to define how to implement what they used to have in other products before moving into the 2000s with SharePoint. My good buddy, AC has just announced the availability of his excellent white paper on the topic – hopefully this will help reduce the time suck on this important, but fundamental topic. It’s on MSDN, but [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 20th '09 |
SharePoint Pod Show: Challenges in Enterprise SharePoint Deployments
Spencer Harbar
During the MVP Summit in Seattle a couple weeks back down I sat down with Rob Foster and Nick Swan for an interview on the SharePoint Pod Show. I waffled about various topics, some of which you may find interesting. Challenges in Enterprise SharePoint Deployments-Episode 20 [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 19th '09 |
Quality SharePoint books
Spencer Harbar
I’m often asked for book recommendations. One of the good and bad things about the popularity of SharePoint 2007 is there are now gazillions of titles to choose from. Back in the day you’d struggle to find any SharePoint material on the shelves and in 2001 there was only one decent book at all. Today it’s a different story. Trouble is with quantity comes an inevitable decrease in quality. Of late however there has been a number of excellent books published. I’m not saying these are the o [read].
Posted: Sat, Mar 14th '09 |
The ‘hidden cost’ of SharePoint in the enterprise
Spencer Harbar
If you have been in any of my SharePoint admin classes or worked with me on deployments you will be familiar with one of my favorite topics, the ‘hidden cost’ of SharePoint. I’m not talking about scary topics like ‘governance’, ‘best practices’, culture change, end user training, or Enterprise CALs, but rather all the other things you absolutely must have when operating SharePoint in the enterprise. It’s long overdue that I post a summary here for all those who want the key takea [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 13th '09 |
Sony Reader PRS-700
Spencer Harbar
Last week I finally got my hands on the “new” Sony Reader PRS-700. I’m very happy! I had tried to get one in San Diego in late February but was denied. Luckily there was no repeat of the Borders saga back in 2006 when I tried to get the original 500. Walked in on Sunday, picked it off the shelf and bought it – I got the black one rather than the silver. There were no gift cards which is kinda annoying but those can wait. I haven’t spent a huge amount of time using it, but enough to pos [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 12th '09 |
Test Driven Development with SharePoint
Spencer Harbar
SharePoint MVPs had a great week in Seattle and Redmond last week and the annual MVP Summit. One of the common discussion topics during the evenings was that of Test Driven SharePoint Development, its pros and cons and so forth, following on from the debate in the blogosphere. Indeed we got so deep and technical a small group of us decided to record some videos to push out to the community. In the videos we interview Andrew Woodward, one of the leading experts on using TDD with SharePoint. Check [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 10th '09 |
European SharePoint Best Practices Conference
Spencer Harbar
Next month, April 6th thru 8th, the SharePoint Best Practices Conference comes to Europe. London is the place to be, specifically the QEII Conference Center. You can register for the event here. I’ve had the privilege to present at the first event in Washington DC, and more recently the second in San Diego,CA. This conference is a great show with superb speakers and the low down dirty what you need to know to be successful with SharePoint. No fluff. No marketing. Find out more about the agenda [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 10th '09 |
The days of documents are *not* numbered
Spencer Harbar
SharePoint Joel has some good points over on his recent post regarding the waste of space that most documents are. Certainly I can agree with this – I’ve seen and produced enough of these things over the years – a few unfortunate souls have even read the ones with my name on the front! I guess apologies are in order to you all at this point :)
However, such a generalization is extremely dangerous albeit it a good controversy for debate. (Darn, now I’m humming that guitar lick).
The botto [read].
Posted: Sun, Mar 8th '09 |
SharePoint Best Practices Presentations
Spencer Harbar
Thanks to all who attended my sessions at the Best Practices SharePoint Conference earlier this month in San Diego. As promised, here are the presentations from these sessions. Apologies for the delay in posting these – I have been under the weather since returning from the US. A quick note on the Kerberos Config Wizard, which as I mentioned during the session, is unfortunately delayed due to legal issues. This is still the case and I am trying to progress as quickly as possible. Stay tuned fo [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 19th '09 |
Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Microsoft Business Intelligence strategy update and SharePoint
Spencer Harbar
Pej has done the deed and announced this over on the SharePoint Team Blog: PerformancePoint scorecarding and dashboarding capabilities will now become part of SharePoint Enterprise CAL and available to customers who are on SharePoint SA. This means that customers who want to deploy PerformancePoint can do so today at no additional cost. Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Microsoft Business Intelligence strategy update and SharePoint [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 23rd '09 |
BDC Meta Man Web Edition
Spencer Harbar
If you are making use of the very cool Business Data Catalog in MOSS Enterprise you are doubtless aware that the hands down best tool to accelerate your projects is BDC Meta Man from Lightning Tools. They’ve been busy beavering away on a new tool which addresses a key problem in many projects which utilize the BDC, the requirement to be able to access the Shared Services Administration Web Site in order to fiddle about with Application Definitions and so forth. Whilst it is possible to delegat [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 12th '09 |
SharePoint Kerberos Configuration Utility: Last call for feedback and suggestions
Spencer Harbar
As previously detailed we have been busy working on a public (version 2) release of the SharePoint Kerberos Configuration Utility which has been used successfully on a number of customer engagements. We are aiming for a release the first week in February at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference. Configuring a SharePoint Farm for Kerberos is very easy however there are a large number of variables which depend upon the farm characteristics and more importantly the business requirements. In addi [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 9th '09 |
Content Deployment Webcast now available on demand
Spencer Harbar
Thanks to all those who attended yesterday’s webcast. A few folk asked about the download, which is now available at: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mseventsbmo/view?id=1032396926&role=attend&pw=2E178E33 Enjoy! Some of the questions during the webcast related to disconnected deployment and also additional scenarios which cannot be achieved by using the Central Administration UI alone. I also promised to post some additional resources, here they are! We may also cover these in a fut [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 7th '09 |
SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night
Spencer Harbar
SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night will be making a welcome return during the SharePoint Best Practices Conference early February in San Diego. This casual event will take place on Tuesday 3rd February at La Jolla Brew House at around 7pm. If you are coming along please sign up over here to give us an idea of numbers. [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 6th '09 |
MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Products and Technologies for Internet Site Development: Content Deployment
Spencer Harbar
On Tuesday, January 06 I will be presenting a MSDN Webcast as part of the SharePoint for Internet Site Development series. This will take place at 11:00 AM Pacific Time, which is 19.00 PM GMT. I get all the fun topics, and I will be covering Content Deployment and even doing Content Deployment against a real site live during the Web Cast! :) The sign up page is: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032396926&Culture=en-US Content deployment enables you to run an Inte [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 31st '08 |
Issues with harbar.net
Spencer Harbar
Apologies to all of you who tried to submit comments or contact me through harbar.net over the last couple of weeks. Unfortunately for me this was down to an assortment of issues with my hosting provider, who were unable to offer any reasonable assistance whatsoever. I thought things were a bit quiet and I have been suffering all manner of problems with the hoster since their “platform upgrade”. On my return to work after Christmas I did a bunch of tests and after yet more ineptitude on the [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 30th '08 |
SharePoint Central Administration: High Availability, Load Balancing, Security & General Recommendations
Spencer Harbar
I keep getting sandbagged by folks on the topic of the SharePoint Central Administration (SPCA) application, and there is still considerable confusion about how SPCA should be best deployed within a farm topology, how to make it “Highly Available” and “Secure”. Most of the queries are around what I do in my deployments and what recommendations I have for SPCA. Therefore this article covers these topics along with some additional discussion and general recommendations.
Running Central [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 26th '08 |
Things I want in Windows 7
Spencer Harbar
There’s a bunch of cool stuff coming in Windows 7 if the things they showed and talked about at PDC make it into the final release. But there’s plenty of things which are reasonably basic which I believe would make things much better, especially on a laptop. I no longer have a desktop running Vista. My laptop is my desktop (and my laptop when on the road) and this is increasingly common. Don’t get me wrong there’s plenty of things I like about Vista and I’m not one of these XP is bette [read].
Posted: Sun, Dec 21st '08 |
To “Best Practice” or not to “Best Practice”
Spencer Harbar
Adam Buenz over on SharePoint Shelter has a nice post titled When Best Practices Aren’t Best Practices. It’s a good read, and pretty much all he says I agree with. There are a few things he doesn’t touch on that I feel like highlighting however, so here goes… The key problem is the term itself. “Best Practices”. I’ve always hated it. “Best Practices”, says who? :) There’s nothing funnier than someone who has been practicing a particular technology for six months spouting off [read].
Posted: Sun, Dec 21st '08 |
Sony eBook Library 2.5 now installs on x64!!!!! :)
Spencer Harbar
I am happy! The excellent Sony Reader comes with a bit of software – the eBook Library – think of it like iTunes for books. It’s nowhere near as evil as iTunes, but not exactly the greatest bit of software ever built. Anyways it let’s you buy books from Sony and stick them on the Reader. Note you don’t need this – there are two other programs for transferring books. However if you wish to purchase books from Sony (which I do) then you need it. Trouble is previous versions didn’t in [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 12th '08 |
Speaking at the Best Practices™ SharePoint Conference
Spencer Harbar
I am delighted to be speaking again at the second Best Practices™ SharePoint Conference in San Diego, CA, February 2nd thru 4th 2009. The first Best Practices™ SharePoint Conference in Washington, D.C., was a great success with awesome speakers, community events and a fantastic turnout of knowledgeable attendees. What really set this conference apart was it’s independent nature and it’s focus on real world, best practices from field deployments. This conference is not Tech Ed where a bun [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 8th '08 |
Platform Hygiene: Get your SharePoint updated. Now!
Spencer Harbar
By now you should definitely have your nuggin’ around SharePoint updates, and be on a decent build. A decent build like the Infrastructure Updates, or better yet the October Cumulative Updates. Of course there are some more coming in a couple weeks. Keep up to date with my Post SP1 hot fixes article here.
The trouble is lots of folk don’t bother and are still running RTM. Oh dear! However this is understandable, a lot of customers are running quite happily (don’t laugh, there are some, rea [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 8th '08 |
Christmas Present Recommendations
Spencer Harbar
My buddy Nick Swan went and tagged me with one of these meme things. This time I’m supposed to come up five Christmas pressie recommendations – primarily gadgets. It was a bit tricky but here goes. 1. Sony PRS700 – electronic book reader. The Sony Reader is by far and away the best electronic book reader on the market, I’ve tried all of them. If you can live with the Sony ebook store limitations (which aren’t that bad actually, and of course you don’t have to use it!) it’s the mu [read].
Posted: Sun, Nov 30th '08 |
SUGUK Edinburgh Meeting - Mythbusters
Spencer Harbar
Many thanks to all those who attended yesterday evening’s SharePoint User Group UK Meeting at the Scottish Parliament. Big shout to Steven Hynds once again for organizing the excellent venue. As promised, the slide deck for my presentation is now available. For Andrew’s TDD whitepaper, please head on over to his site at www.21apps.com. If you have feedback on the event, or other suggestions for future topics please post them to the SUGUK forums. We look forward to future SUGUK events in Sco [read].
Posted: Fri, Nov 28th '08 |
Triple Boot MacBook Pro Update: Running the Vista x64 Partition in VMWare Fusion.
Spencer Harbar
A while back I posted my popular article series, Triple Boot MacBook Pro, which described the steps necessary to configure a three-way system running Mac OS, Windows Vista x64 and Windows Server 2008 x64.
At the time it was unfortunately not possible make use of VMWare Fusion’s killer feature – running a VM directly from the Boot Camp partition (no VHDs). This was due to a couple of “issues”, which have thankfully now been addressed by VMWare.
This article explains the issues and details [read].
Posted: Fri, Nov 28th '08 |
Scripted Farm Deployments
Spencer Harbar
It took a while but the Using scripts to automate SharePoint Server 2007 installation guidance has finally been published. Chris Smith details the release over on ToTheSharePoint. The best thing about this release are the examples and sample code, however I caution you to test appropriately and don’t be fooled into believing the premise that it’s just better. That my friends, isn’t true. Unfortunately the vendor has a nasty habit of arrogantly saying “you should be doing it like this… [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 26th '08 |
SharePoint 2007 Post SP1 Hotfixes Updated
Spencer Harbar
Finally got around to uploading an update to my fixes article. Apologies for the delay, my excuse is my hosting “provider”, and I’m sticking to it :) SharePoint 2007 Post SP1 Hotfixes [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 26th '08 |
Typemock Isolator for SharePoint
Spencer Harbar
Those crazy kids at Typemock have announced Isolator for sharepoint: It is almost the same as Typemock Isolator, but will only work on APIs that are directly connected with sharepoint’s API. That means that if you only need to test sharepoint stuff, you can get a powerful product, for a much cheaper price than the full Isolator (you can always upgrade later if you need to isolate more APIs). Info for masses, how to get free licence: Typemock are offering their new product for unit testi [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 24th '08 |
Arpan Shah on the SharePoint Pod Show
Spencer Harbar
Check out my good friend Arpan Shah, waxing lyrical on the SharePoint Pod Show! SharePoint in the Cloud, SharePoint and Azure, and Questions on SharePoint 14 and Office 14-Episode 11 [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 24th '08 |
SUGUK Edinburgh Meeting, November 27th
Spencer Harbar
We are pleased to be back again at the Scottish Parliament for another evening of SharePoint at 6.30pm, November 27th. Many thanks to Stephen Hynds for facilitating the event.
If you want to come along, please go here and register your name, otherwise the security peeps won’t let you in the building, this is after all the seat of the Scottish Government. There will doubtless be a few sherberts following the event.
Spencer Harbar SharePoint MVP - MythBusters – debunking common SharePoin [read].
Posted: Fri, Nov 21st '08 |
Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint
Spencer Harbar
During TechEd ITForum a couple weeks ago, Microsoft announced the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) for Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Pretty quickly a micro-debate started on this and a few people posted their thoughts on blogs. I promised at the time to do a post that detailed out the salient points, which unfortunately have been missed thus far. There has also been a lot of complaints regarding the associated cost. S [read].
Posted: Fri, Nov 21st '08 |
SUGUK Edinburgh Meeting, November 27th
Spencer Harbar
We are pleased to be back again at the Scottish Parliament for another evening of SharePoint at 6.30pm, November 27th. Many thanks to Stephen Hynds for facilitating the event.
If you want to come along, please go here and register your name, otherwise the security peeps won’t let you in the building, this is after all the seat of the Scottish Government. There will doubtless be a few sherberts following the event.
Spencer Harbar SharePoint MVP - MythBusters – debunking common SharePoint Farm [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 19th '08 |
Issues with my Hosting provider
Spencer Harbar
I'm currently having "issues" with my hosting provider, and you will notice that some recent posts are missing. I'm working on getting these back. Please bear with me - normal service will be resumed shortly (I hope). [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 19th '08 |
SUGUK Edinburgh Meeting, November 27th
Spencer Harbar
We are pleased to be back again at the Scottish Parliament for another evening of SharePoint at 6.30pm, November 27th. Many thanks to Stephen Hynds for facilitating the event. If you want to come along, please go here and register your name, otherwise the security peeps won’t let you in the building, this is after all the seat of the Scottish Government. There will doubtless be a few sherberts following the event. Spencer Harbar SharePoint MVP - MythBusters – debunking common SharePoint Far [read].
Posted: Sun, Nov 16th '08 |
Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint Announced at TechEd EMEA Developers 2008
Spencer Harbar
Server Explorer for SharePoint viewing Lists and other artifacts in SharePoint directly inside of Visual Studio Windows SharePoint Services Project (WSP file) Import to create a new solution Added a new web part project item and showed the Visual web part designer which loads a user control as a web part for SharePoint Showed adding an event receiver for SharePoint and using the wizard to choose the event receiver and to just create a source file with that event receiver. Added an ASPX w [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 10th '08 |
SharePoint by Day, SharePint by night – TechEd EMEA
Spencer Harbar
We're exporting SharePoint by Day, SharePint by night, the social event for SharePoint professionals! SharePint will be on Sunday night, November 9, 2008 @ 8p at Sala Monasterio. Please leave a comment on Andrew Connell’s post to give us an idea how many people we're looking at. For those of you who've never attended a SharePint, it's pretty simple: consider it a birds-of-a-feather social event for SharePoint folks that's very lose and unstructured. [read].
Posted: Sat, Nov 8th '08 |
Best Practices for Enterprise User Scalability in SharePoint
Spencer Harbar
Joel has just posted a killer entry on his blog:
Best Practices for Enterprise User Scalability in SharePoint
Best Practices for Overcoming the 64K ACL, Security Principal Limits, and Future of Identity Management
If you are a SharePoint "Architect", or at least belive you are :) you must read this material. Don't believe the hype or waffle about ACL limits, DIP sizes or any other rambling of the sort - head over right now to Joel's blog and get the real skinny. [read].
Posted: Sat, Nov 1st '08 |
Windows 7 on MacBook Pro
Spencer Harbar
During the PDC a number of folk asked me about running Windows 7 on the Mac - using BootCamp as per my Triple Boot MacBook Pro article series. I was always planning on giving it a shot as soon as I got "the goods". Whilst it might seem really obvious, the real question is:
do the bootcamp drivers for all the stuff (right click for example :)) work on Windows 7?
I can confirm that indeed they do - or at least appear to - I've done this on my 17" MBP which is the generation before the recent [read].
Posted: Sat, Nov 1st '08 |
Simple example of why Microsoft.Web.Administration rocks
Spencer Harbar
I've had a bunch of requests to start talking more about IIS7 development and whilst I've covered some examples of this previously in my SharePoint and Windows 2008 presentations I thought I'd start by providing a very simple example from APM. This is also to answer (bizarrely) the same question from two readers of this blog. This example shows how to retrieve a list of Application Pools on the box. You'd think this would be straightforward and efficient right? and easy to do in managed code wit [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 30th '08 |
Application Pool Manager v2 (finally)
Spencer Harbar
Yesterday during the opening PDC keynote I did the final release build of APM v2 and posted it for download. Unfortunately due to a combination of sucky wireless and power "issues" I have only now got around to posting an announcement here.
Since the initial release of APM it's grown many arms and legs and it has been amazingly popular. By version 1.2 the code had become pretty disgusting and hard to maintain (even for something which does very little). Therefore this release is a complete [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 29th '08 |
SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night - PDC2008 Edition
Spencer Harbar
Blimey, it's almost time for another PDC. This will be my forth PDC event and I'm looking forward to it. This year it's again in LA, and this year it hasn't been cancelled :) There's not much SharePoint at the event. And that's OK - indeed it's one of the reasons I'm going :) There is however some interesting introductory material - check out the details over on Paul Andrew's blog of the SharePoint related sessions. A small group of SharePoint MVPs will be in town along with some blue badge typ [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 16th '08 |
Prescriptive Guidance for SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Sites
Spencer Harbar
I'm often asked for "best practices" for developing Web Content Management (aka Publishing) sites with MOSS 2007. "Best Practices" is dodgy ground, as the best practice for one given project could very possibly be the worst practice for another. Prescriptive guidance on the other hand is much more useful, MSDN has just published an excellent article in this space authored by my buddy Andrew Connell: Publishing sites adhere to most, if not all, of the prescriptive guidance and generally accepted [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 9th '08 |
Estimate performance and capacity requirements for InfoPath Forms Services environments (Office SharePoint Server)
Spencer Harbar
For along time there's been a significant gap in the perf and cap planning guides around the InfoPath Forms Services features of MOSS. I'm very pleased to see this gap now filled with the below recent publication. Essential for those architect-ing MOSS Enterprise deployments: This performance and capacity planning scenario incorporates a single Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm that is running InfoPath Forms Services Estimate performance and capacity requirements for InfoPath Forms [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 7th '08 |
SharePoint 2007 Post SP1 Hotfixes
Spencer Harbar
I finally got around to updating my list of post SP1 fixes, which is now fully up to date. Well until they make some more that is! SharePoint 2007 Post SP1 Hotfixes [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 7th '08 |
Investing in Logical Architecture Design Samples
Spencer Harbar
Thanks to all those who attended my session this morning at the Best Practices Conference on Global Taxonomies. As promised, below is a link to the logical architecture design samples, of which I showed a couple. From here you can get the Visio diagrams and also read an in depth article on the design trade offs which led to the example Logical Architecture. Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Investing in Logical Architecture Design Samples Also, more recently a variation on the above theme has [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 18th '08 |
Farewell Patrick
Spencer Harbar
Very late yesterday I found out that Patrick Tisseghem, a friend and one of the world's leading SharePoint authorities had passed away suddenly. Patrick was one of the very best guys - both to work with and to have fun with. He will be greatly missed, and my thoughts are with his family and other friends at this time. [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 5th '08 |
SharePoint Administration Toolkit 2.0 is Now Available!
Spencer Harbar
I've done a bunch of geo-dispersed SharePoint deployments recently, and most of them make use of the Global My Sites capability. This works very well, basically by redirecting users to the correct Web Application based on Audiences. Sure there are some limitations within the My Sites, but none that make the geo-distribution of them a poor compromise. However the problem with any solution in this space is the need to manage multiple Farms, and more importantly multiple SSPs. For the My Sites sc [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 29th '08 |
FREE SharePoint Reporting - CardioLog Lite
Spencer Harbar
FINALLY, a decent solution for SharePoint Reporting - for free! Check it out: FREE SharePoint Reporting - CardioLog Lite The visitor segmentation and light javascript implementation are perfect for small to medium size environments, looking to improve the OOTB reporting. Intlock also provide a bunch of other report bundles and paid for versions for more demanding situations. I definitely encourage you to evaluate this edition, which you can download and install on your test machines quickly [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 28th '08 |
Beginners Guide to Test Driven Web Part Development
Spencer Harbar
My buddy and fellow SharePoint Junkie/MVP, Andrew Woodward, has put together a nice white paper which walks you through the steps necessary to get started with Test Driven SharePoint Development. This is a really good 101 for those who don't know what TDD is all about, or for those that do but are struggling with using it within SharePoint development projects. This paper is the first in a series that he is putting together, so keep an eye on his blog or better yet, subscribe. Beginners Guide t [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 27th '08 |
International SharePoint Professionals Association (“ISPA”)
Spencer Harbar
I'm pleased to announce I have joined the board of the International SharePoint Professionals Association (“ISPA”). ISPA is a professional association dedicated to the promotion and global adoption of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. The Association provides support and guidance to the community by establishing connections between SharePoint professionals and groups, resources, education and information. I'm very excited to be working with a great team to drive this much n [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 7th '08 |
SharePoint Best Practices Conference
Spencer Harbar
September 15th - 17th, Washington, DC. I'm pleased to be presenting a couple sessions at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference this September in Washington, DC. I hope to see some of you there. For more information, please check out the conference web site at http://www.sharepointbestpractices.com/. It promises to be a great event with some great speakers and excellent material from the real world of SharePoint deployments - not much marketing spin here is what I'm saying :). If you register [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 24th '08 |
By the community, for the community - ISPA
Spencer Harbar
...and little if any vendor involvement - just the way it's supposed to be. Today, well yesterday actually, the Independent SharePoint Professionals Association officially launched. The Association provides support and guidance to the community by establishing connections between SharePoint professionals and groups, resources, education and information. For more information, visit their web site and be sure to join right away. I'm pleased to be one of the regional leads for EMEA, and want to tak [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 17th '08 |
More on the Infrastructure Updates: Kerberos and SSP Web Services
Spencer Harbar
What's the best thing about the recently released Infrastructure Updates for SharePoint 2007? The super cool new search functionality? Content Deployment fixes? Improvements in performance and security? Nope, none of those me ole china, it's the new support for Kerberos Authentication for the SSP Web Services. This was only previously possible with a heinous hack that I promised I would never detail publicly due to it's nastiness. The problem was that the SSP Web Services run under a IIS Virtual [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 16th '08 |
Infrastructure Updates Available
Spencer Harbar
The Infrastructure Updates for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 are now available. I've also updated my Post SP1 Hotfixes article.
Key updates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 include:
Platform performance improvements and fixes.
Several backup and restore fixes.
Several core Workflow fixes.
Key updates for SharePoint Server 2007 include:
New Search features such as federated search and a unified search administration dashboard.
Several core fixes to Search to improve performance and scale [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 15th '08 |
Content Deployment QFE KB Articles now live
Spencer Harbar
Finally the KB articles detailing the Content Migration and Content Deployment fixes are live on support.microsoft.com. I've also update my Post SP1 Hotfixes article with these links. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/952698 (WSS) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952704 (MOSS) [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 2nd '08 |
Apple Keyboard Layout for Virtual Machines
Spencer Harbar
One of the freakiest things about running on an excellent MacBook Pro is the keyboard layout. Keys in the wrong place and a few missing ones like #, PrtScr and AltGr. Once you get used to it it's all good however. There's combinations and so forth to get at things you need. The trouble is just as you've gotten used to it, you fire up those development virtual machines and they don't know squat about the Apple keyboard. This is because the custom Input mapping installed as part of the Boot Camp p [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 30th '08 |
Installing applications on Windows Server 2008 or Vista x64
Spencer Harbar
You know the score - you've a couple of indispensable applications which refuse to install on your operating system of choice because the idjut vendor decided it would be a good idea to bake into the installer some sort of version check. This is usually when you're trying to use a 64 bit operating system or wish to install something on a server OS. I have a couple examples - Sony's Ereader is a must have for me, but the installer doesn't like 64 bit. Others include Live Messenger and LifeCam whi [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 30th '08 |
SUGUK Edinburgh: Slide Deck
Spencer Harbar
Thanks to all who attended the Edinburgh SUGUK meeting last week for a great event. A big shout out to Steven Hynds and crew for facilitating the venue. The slide deck for my talk can be found here. Hope to see you again soon (probably towards the back of August) for more SUGUK events north of the border! [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 24th '08 |
Reminder: SUGUK Edinburgh Meeting on Thursday
Spencer Harbar
Just a quick reminder, if you are planning on attending the SUGUK Meeting at the Parliament building in Edinburgh this Thursday, please sign up over at the SUGUK Forms. [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 17th '08 |
Enabling Bluetooth on MacBook Pro and Windows Server 2008 x64
Spencer Harbar
As you may have noticed, I've been getting a bit carried away with my shiny MacBook Pro of late. I have this bad boy set up to triple boot Mac OS, Vista x64 and Windows Server 2008 x64. The idea here is to have a small Win2k8 partition running MOSS for demos/presentations (and the odd bit of coding) running on the metal rather than in a VM. The latest Boot Camp drivers enable this goodness, they all work flawlessly. All that is, apart from the Bluetooth stack. This is a problem because I use the [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 13th '08 |
Web Content Management Resource Center for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Spencer Harbar
Check it: This page provides resources for IT pros to help you plan and implement a Web Content Management (WCM) solution using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Web Content Management Resource Center for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 5th '08 |
Even easier way to obtain MSFT hotfixes
Spencer Harbar
For a while now Microsoft have been offering online hotfix requests which minimise the need to call CSS and raise an incident to get your hands on a hotfix. However the link to the request form was hidden in the "hotfix information" section of the KB and often missed by customers. Today support.microsoft.com have improved things significantly with the following graphic at the very top of each KB article for which a download is available: This takes you to an improved hotfix request form allowi [read].
Posted: Wed, May 28th '08 |
Leveraging the platform - Caching in SharePoint WCM scenarios
Spencer Harbar
Late Friday afternoon/evening I had an interesting call with a customer who was experiencing severe perceived poor performance on their SharePoint 2007 WCM application. The problem was resolved simply by implementing OOTB functionality - namely Caching, in particular the disk-based caching, and they agreed it was appropriate to post here.
Basically the site is a regular Publishing site albeit used for the most part internally. The site does feature however a significant amount of "binary content [read].
Posted: Sun, May 25th '08 |
SharePoint 2007 Post SP1 Fixes
Spencer Harbar
This is a list of the post Service Pack 1 hotfix packages for SharePoint 2007, primarily for my own reference. This is not a list of fixes, but rather the update packages.
[[UPDATE]] Updated and moved to: www.harbar.net/articles/postsp1.aspx. [read].
Posted: Sat, May 24th '08 |
Office SharePoint Server for Internet Sites Licensing
Spencer Harbar
Consistently and by a considerable margin, the most popular search terms that lead people to this site are around MOSS Licensing and the For Internet Sites (MOSS FIS) edition. This is also a hot topic in customer engagements, in classrroms, at conferences such as TechEd and in general conversations about using SharePoint 2007 for Internet sites. This is not all that surprising given the amount of misinformation out there. In addition Microsoft obfuscate the topic with many layers of misdirection [read].
Posted: Fri, May 23rd '08 |
New version of Application Pool Manager
Spencer Harbar
Finally managed to finish up a new version of the Application Pool Recycle Utility for SharePoint Developers! This release features many enhancements and a couple new features based on feedback. You can download the new release and view more information here. [Update 26/05/2008] Please note this is the last major release of the original codebase. Whilst minor fixes will continue to be made, future major releases will target Windows Server 2008 only. [read].
Posted: Fri, May 23rd '08 |
How to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 on Vista x64/x86 - The Bamboo Team Blog
Spencer Harbar
Here's an *unsupported* way to get WSS SP1 up and running on Vista. Like I say *unsupported*!!! How to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 on Vista x64/x86 - The Bamboo Team Blog [read].
Posted: Thu, May 22nd '08 |
Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Announcing: SharePoint WCM book available at TechEd 2008
Spencer Harbar
While the book will be available shortly after this TechEd, we will have the first 1400 copies of the book at TechEd that we'll be giving away. So keep your eyes open when the book releases! If you're coming to TechEd, swing by the SharePoint booth for a chance to get a copy and have Andrew to sign it for you! Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Announcing: SharePoint WCM book available at TechEd 2008 [read].
Posted: Wed, May 21st '08 |
MOSS 2007 Content Deployment QFE Pack Now Available via MSFT CSS
Spencer Harbar
Whilst assisting customers recently who are experiencing issues with Content Deployment (CD) in MOSS 2007, it appears CSS now has a huge QFE that addresses a ton of known issues (60+) specific to (CD). For now it looks like you can only get it via Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS). Like other hotfixes, it's likely this QFE pack will be included in a future MOSS update roll up but there are no details or confirmation on this at present. The QFE pack helps address some of the most common [read].
Posted: Wed, May 21st '08 |
SUGUK hits Edinburgh in June
Spencer Harbar
We are pleased to announce the first SUGUK meeting in Edinburgh. The event will take place at the stunning Scottish Parliament (no snide remarks about using it for something useful please!) on Thursday June 19th. A special shout out to Stephen Hynds for organising the venue. If you get there early you'll be able to take a wee tour. The event will include two sessions by Steve Smith and myself: MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008 - Spencer Harbar Learn how to leverage the new and improved featur [read].
Posted: Mon, May 19th '08 |
Finally decent x64 drivers for Atheros WLAN in MacBook Pros
Spencer Harbar
For those with the pre-Penryn MacBook Pros running Vista x64 you will no doubt be bloomin' annoyed by the conflict issue between the wireless driver and the sound card which results in white noise and annoying clicks and pops when using a WLAN connection. At last a complete fix for this is now available - via - wait for it - Windows Update! Now you could solve this previously for hunting down Atheros drivers from dodgy laptop forum type sites - but that's helva risky. This way is much better! [read].
Posted: Sun, May 18th '08 |
Using Kerberos with SharePoint on Windows Server 2008
Spencer Harbar
As I demonstrated during the Kerberos session at the Manchester SUGUK meeting last month, there is an extra step required to enable Kerberos Authentication for SharePoint when using Windows Server 2008. One of the security changes in IIS 7.0 is that Windows Authentication is performed by default in the kernel. This is a good thing! It eases the configuration required for Kerberos and improves performance significantly. Because HTTP.sys is handling the authentication, it is by default done under [read].
Posted: Sun, May 18th '08 |
Web Deployment Tool Beta 1 (Go Live) just released
Spencer Harbar
Wondered what happened to app center?
Want to sync your IIS (and remain supported) Want that sync to include SSL Certs? GAC? Regkeys? DSNs? - well apart from the last two (for which you should be shot) :)
Check out the Web Deployment Tool which has reached Beta 1 and for which there is a Go Live licence. [read].
Posted: Wed, May 14th '08 |
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