I will be presenting at SharePointConnections in Las Vegas next week in a session called “Demystifying SharePoint in the Cloud”. My session is Wednesday 3/28 at 2:30. In this session I’ll be helping to put some definition around: What is “the Cloud” What it means to have “SharePoint in the Cloud” When it’s appropriate to [...]
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Today (which is a great day) you may have read the press release from Rackspace, an article in the Wall Street Journal, or saw a twitter from a friend – but today Rackspace announced that we have purchased SharePoint911. I can’t tell you how thrilled I am about this announcement! Nearly 4 years ago I [...]
This is a quick post to let you know about a new resource, it’s called “SharePoint in the Cloud“. Over at Rackspace we have created a Linkedin Group to have a discussion around all things “SharePoint in the Cloud“. While this is a new group, I’d encourage you to go over and subscribe – we’ve [...]
Content Delivery Networks and SharePoint In the previous post I covered why someone would need to deal with global SharePoint and the 4 different options that exist to help SharePoint work over long distances. As a reminder, they are: Shorten the distance by using a more efficient network (CDN) Shorten the distance by staging SharePoint servers closer [...]
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Alright – Let’s talk “Global SharePoint Deployments”. When setting out to create a global SharePoint deployment it’s important to understand what the drivers that push an organization to do this. The symptom they are either trying to fix or prevent is a slow user experience within SharePoint. This begs the question, “why does distance impact [...]
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Working for Rackspace I have had the ability to architect some truly BIG SharePoint farms. One thing to realize along the way is that a lot of people lead with the need for very large, very geographically dispersed farms – but the reality is that not many companies have the appetite for the financial and [...]
Well the SharePoint Conference 2011 is over and everyone is either home or on their way home. I’ve debated on what content should go in this post and have come to the conclusion that I’d like to take a little different path. I’d like to say “So WHAT!”. I’m not trying to be rude – [...]
SharePoint MVP Randy Drisgill (@Drisgill) of SharePoint911 talks briefly about 2 of his sessions coming up this week here at the SharePoint Conference 2011.
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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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