Jeff DeVerter on October 12th, 2009

As we get ready for SharePoint Conference 2009 I am starting a new series called “SharePoint Street Talk” where I sit down and talk SharePoint with someone who spends the better part of their day working with the product. In this first installment I sat down with Shane Young of SharePoint911.com fame. Shane is a [...]

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Jeff DeVerter on September 16th, 2009

Just a short note to let you know that I am still here – still working – still immersed in SharePoint. Here is a little of what’s been keeping me busy: I’m still managing and building out our SharePoint competency at Rackspace. This includes training our team in the UK as well as additional shifts [...]

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admin on May 20th, 2009

Microsoft posted some handy information about tuning SharePoint Blob Cache so that blobs can be cached on the local file system to increase performance by not requiring the round-trip to the database. Link to article: http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/sharepointserver/HA101762841033.aspx Unfortunately, the article assumes that you are running MOSS. If you are running WSS, then you will not be [...]

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vNext of SharePoint officially announced.

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Jeff DeVerter on March 30th, 2009

What could be better – chocolate and SharePoint!

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Jeff DeVerter on March 26th, 2009

So, I may not have the entire story together here but can you answer the following question: Question: What does the WSS (or MOSS) Search box have to do with Alternate Access Mappings? Answer: Everything I received a call stating that the search box had “disappeared” from my the individual’s SharePoint site. I had assumed [...]

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Jeff DeVerter on March 15th, 2009

I don’t know what this means specifically for me – but what an awesome thing to get Scoble on staff at my employer, Rackspace! That is awesome! Here is the article from C-Net: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10196572-93.html

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Jeff DeVerter on March 12th, 2009

I have to increase the upload size of files for SharePoint all the time for my customers. I recently found the following article that presents a very good description of the process. Since there is no use in re-writing it, I though I would just direct you to it: http://blogs.msdn.com/bgeoffro/archive/2008/03/19/list-attachments-over-50mb-need-more-than-an-increase-in-maximum-upload-size.aspx Have a great SharePoint day….

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Jeff DeVerter on February 5th, 2009

Consider this scenario: You stand MOSS up as a Web Content Management (WCM) site for your company’s public internet site. You site is a hierarchy of sites to create the structure your information architect designed. You create pages within these sites – at least 1 for each site. But in certain site – you have [...]

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Jeff DeVerter on February 5th, 2009

Consider the following scenario- You deploy SharePoint for your organization on the standard Port 80. Only later you decided that your traffic needs to be encrypted so you purchase an SSL Cert and apply it to your site and add the additional Alternate Access Mapping (or AAM for short). You test the site using https://yoursite.com [...]

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