Its only been about 25 months since I posted. Lets just say business is good and it keeps me busy :) A quick update - I am now Senior Escalation Engineer for SharePoint Online in the Online Services Division at Microsoft. Here is recently released case...

SharePoint IIS Traffic Analysis Internally we have experienced situations where internal users have built tools or solutions which have negatively affected performance for our SharePoint users. This can be done in different ways such as Setting up...

I am pleased to announce I have finished version 2.0 of the MSIT SharePoint Reporting Framework. Versions 1.0 was used heavily internally for our service metrics and operational tracking. With version 2.0 many great improvements have come out of it, additionally...

"Online services from Microsoft are hosted solutions for businesses with advanced IT needs, including the ability to control access to data, manage users, apply business and compliance policy, and meet high availability standards. These services deliver...

If you’re looking for the best performance and quickest upgrade I highly recommend the Database Migration approach. At MSIT our preferred method is such, it allows a creative flexible upgrade path that has the fastest throughput. Using a method we call...

SharePoint adoption is at an all time high right now with the release of MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0, this is wonderful for your investment but can be a nightmare for a poorly planned deployment that was not ready for massive growth. Certain operational tasks...

The CKS:EBE was designed to enhance and extend the functionality of the built-in blog feature in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. By leveraging its innovative Modular Theme Framework (MTF), your blog can look nothing like a typical SharePoint blog while...

Reporting in SharePoint can be very helpful for all types of scenarios, storage growth projection, weekly service reviews, operational tracking for backups / restores and more. Below are a few scripts that I have wrote for MOSS 2007 / WSS3.0, These can...