Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) has some great output cache settings, but what about SharePoint 2003? Internet Explorer does conditional caching by default, but wouldn't it be nice to eliminate the majority of HTTP round trips (HTTP...

Here are a few quick network checks I do when I go on-site with customers. First, I do a ping to measure latency – LAN should respond in less than a few milliseconds. Next, I do a PathPing (sends a burst of 100 ping packets at each hop, then measures...

I recently had a Microsoft SQL Server expert ask me about some tips regarding Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 databases, so I thought I'd share this information on my blog. First of all BizTalk database are not your normal SQL databases. Yes, I said...