Bill Baer

SharePoint Products TechCenter for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

Bill Baer — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:05:23 GMT

The SharePoint Products TechCenter on TechNet has been updated to include documentation and resources specific to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. The SharePoint Products TechCenter beta resources include categorized documentation and guidance on planning,...(read more)

Intermittent Database Server Connectivity and Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies

Bill Baer — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:07:00 GMT

Intermittent connectivity to a database server hosting Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies databases can occur for a number of reasons. In some cases it may be related to a simple database connection timeout configuration setting in Windows...(read more)

sharepoint.microsoft.com Optimization Strategy and Insights on the SharePoint Team Blog

Bill Baer — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:02:00 GMT

I read a great article on the SharePoint Team Blog during the morning commute providing insight into how sharepoint.microsoft.com was both evaluated and optimized for performance by Tony Tai – SharePoint Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation and...(read more)

Now serving Bing...

Bill Baer — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:05:00 GMT

Search this site with Bing... ;-)...(read more)

Just Published - Configure a Server Farm for Minimal Downtime During Software Updates

Bill Baer — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:07:00 GMT

New documentation was recently published which provides guidance and examples on how to configure your server farms for minimal downtime during software updates http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee514459.aspx ....(read more)

PowerShell and SharePoint Automation Examples Part 3

Bill Baer — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:28:00 GMT

Automating your Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies installations can provide both consistency and efficiency while reducing the potential for human error. This is the third post on the subject of leveraging PowerShell to provide configuration...(read more)

Conference season is upon us...

Bill Baer — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:49:00 GMT

Conference season is upon us and it's gearing up to be a great way to close out the year - join me at the 2009 Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center October 19th through October 22nd, 2009 or for those locally...(read more)

Developing SharePoint Applications

Bill Baer — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:28:00 GMT

Do you have questions or are you looking for best practices on integrating line of business applications with Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, taking advantage of publishing and content oriented capabilities, or creating collaborative interactions...(read more)

Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit

Bill Baer — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:20:00 GMT

The 4th release of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit is now available for download and includes improvements in the SharePoint Diagnostics Tool (SPDiag), a new Permissions Reporting Tool, a new bulk Quota processing tool, in addition to...(read more)

Microsoft Case Studies: Coca-Cola Enterprises and Microsoft Online Services

Bill Baer — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:39:58 GMT

Recently posted: A Microsoft Case Study examining Microsoft Online Services and Coca-Cola Enterprises. Read more about this Microsoft Case Study here: Coca-Cola Enterprises Tackles Competition with Microsoft Online Services To read more Microsoft...(read more)

Quota Templates and Powershell

Bill Baer — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:07:56 GMT

Continuing the series using Powershell and Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, this weeks script sample illustrates how Powershell can be leveraged to programmatically provision Quota Templates in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and/or Microsoft...(read more)

Interesting find on Event Id’s 3760 and 5586…

Bill Baer — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:30:00 GMT

I was recently asked to look at an issue in which SharePoint would intermittently drop its connection to SQL. Taking the typical course of action, I started looking at the Application Event Logs, Trace (ULS) logs, etc. I noticed in the Application...(read more)

HA/DR Whitepaper

Bill Baer — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:22:16 GMT

I missed this one, but better late …. A new whitepaper has been released outlining configuring disaster recovery across SharePoint farms by using SQL Server log shipping – read more …...(read more)

Windows Rights Management Services, Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, and Forest Boundaries

Bill Baer — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:40:24 GMT

I recently was asked about the possibility of implementing Windows Rights Management Services with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a resource forest, or otherwise, the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployment was in a forest other...(read more)

Alternate Access Mappings and Windows Powershell

Bill Baer — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:19:10 GMT

I had a request this week on how to leverage Windows Powershell to add Alternate Access Mappings to the collection for a specific Web application. Surprisingly after some searching I was unable to find anything existing on the topic, so for those...(read more)