JeffDeVerter on June 15th, 2011

My phone rings more often to explain licensing for SharePoint than any other single category of calls.  While I agree that it can be confusing – it’s not as bad as you might thing (or some other products). Before I give my $.02 on licensing, I need to make the disclaimer that I do not [...]

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JeffDeVerter on May 25th, 2011

Jennifer Mason and I continue our conversation we were having at TechEd around “The Community of SharePoint”. In this video we give example of how the community is different, how it has evolved, and how to get involved.  After watching – please continue the conversation by adding some comments to the post.    

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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 November 16th, 2010

Before being joined on our SharePoint team at Rackspace by Matt Lathrop our “SharePoint Sales Evangelist”, I spent a good part of my day on the phone with pre-customers talking about SharePoint.  One phrase exited my mouth so often that we turned it into a (coffee) drinking game.  Every time I said “Taxonomy and Governance” [...]

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OK, I’ll admit it – this one was hard to figure out. Background: SharePoint 2010 Standard server.  Search was returning content, crawlers were filling the index.  No immediate customer impacting issue. The Issue: The event viewer had an error occurring every minute – Event ID 6482 which states: Application Server Administration job failed for service [...]

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JeffDeVerter on November 9th, 2010

Well it shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone that I really (I mean really) enjoy my career in SharePoint.  If you have known or followed me for any length of time you will know that my journey with SharePoint started as a Power User, then off to be an Enterprise Architect for Collaboration (SharePoint), [...]

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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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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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