JeffDeVerter on July 12th, 2011

I love this tool – the ULSViewer: http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/ULSViewer If you spend any amount of time digging into SharePoint farm issues – this tool makes it so much easier to filter and find what you need. Here is a screenshot of the app:

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JeffDeVerter on May 27th, 2011

If you’ve been following me for any amount of time or heard me speak at an event, then you know that I work for Rackspace Hosting.  While I do my best to not “sell” any specific product (other than SharePoint of course) I wanted to post this video for you to watch.  The reason: “Support” [...]

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JeffDeVerter on May 27th, 2011

Ted Pattison at TechEd 2011SharePoint MVP Ted Pattison of Critical Path Training and I visit at TechEd 2011 about the evolution of SharePoint as a programming platform. We discuss development for on-premise SharePoint installations as well as Hosted “Private Cloud” as well as for Office365.    

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JeffDeVerter on May 21st, 2011

Christian Buckley and I sat down at TechEd 2011 to talk some SharePoint.  More specifically, we talked SharePoint governance on a larger scale than a single farm.  Let us know your views on the subject.  Where will your SharePoint data live?  

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JeffDeVerter on May 16th, 2011

I know that sounds a little odd especially if you’re not a sys-admin/DNS junky.  So here’s the deal – when you publish a file or directory using the Rackspace Cloud Files product, you get a really nasty URL that references that asset in their Content Delivery Network (CND). So when I share “files.deverter.com” I’m given [...]

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JeffDeVerter on February 4th, 2011

The purpose of this post is to lay the foundation of the scenario we will use to discuss data storage within SharePoint.  This post is a continuation of my post on entitled “SharePoint Hosting: It’s a Taxonomy & Governance Decision”. A quick recap of the previous post is that until recently – all storage had [...]

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JeffDeVerter on January 28th, 2011

You’ve heard the old adage in real-estate for years –the 3 most important sales factors in selling real-estate are: Location Location Location This actually holds true when thinking about the storage of your data in SharePoint. For years – actually the entire life of SharePoint – we haven’t really had the opportunity to engage in [...]

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One of my favorite new features out of the box when pairing Office 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 (with Office WEB Apps) is the ability to broadcast a PowerPoint presentation.  Lets start by defining broadcast.  Simply put – I am able to stream my presentation (effects and all) to multiple people while maintaining full security [...]

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Jeff DeVerter on October 29th, 2009

In keeping with the SharePoint Street-talk series I started a few weeks back – I did a few video interviews with different SharePoint professionals while at SharePoint Conference 2009.  Here is the first of those interviews where I interview Chris Geier with K2. Technorati Tags: SharePoint,K2,SharePoint 2010,SPC09

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JeffDeVerter on March 30th, 2009

The concept of the Long Tail is one defined by Chris Anderson back in October 2004 in Wired Magazine. Over time different business, community groups, and individuals have applied that concept to their own situations. So what I am doing here is nothing new for the Long Tail – but is a new concept for [...]

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