MOSSy Business
Chris Mullendore - Microsoft Premier Field Engineer, and overall discusser of how business (and yes, devs) can do SharePoint better.
Purging Audit Data w/ PowerShell
SharePoint 2013 administration is VERY PowerShell centric... and yet we're still learning ways to...
Date: 11/16/2014
Portal Site Navigation Decisions - SharePoint 2013
Years ago I wrote a post titled "Portal Site Navigation Decisions" and the guidance there continues...
Date: 02/11/2014
SharePoint vs. Snapshots (Part 2)
This is a continuation of the previous article, SharePoint vs. Snapshots, which us recommended prior...
Date: 02/22/2013
PingUrl
Sometimes when testing a performance issue with SharePoint, you really just want a very simple tool...
Date: 01/24/2013
Why I love Chargebacks
There are two simple truths in IT and in life that should be considered: Technology infrastructure...
Date: 06/06/2012
No.
If you’re a good SharePoint Administrator, this should be your default answer for most requests that...
Date: 12/12/2011
Profile Membership Data Reset
Update: This issue does appear to have been resolved in the August 2011 Cumulative Update (build...
Date: 11/16/2011
Name That Database!
SharePoint 2010, with all of its new service applications and social features, just LOVES databases....
Date: 09/14/2011
The "Right" Diagnostic Log (ULS) Settings
I've been asked recently what the "best" or "correct" settings are for the SharePoint Diagnostic...
Date: 07/29/2011
SharePoint 2010 RBS Benefits/Trade-offs
There is a lot of interest in the ability of SharePoint 2010 to use the new Remote Blob Storage...
Date: 07/09/2011
"Custom Code" - What we really mean...
The term "Custom Code" gets thrown around quite a bit, and the default perspective most people have...
Date: 03/30/2011
Add an assembly to the Global Assembly Cache on Windows Server 2008 R2
While doing an install of SharePoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2, my customer and I bumped...
Date: 06/10/2010
Choosing a Disaster Recovery Solution
We get asked frequently which backup solution we recommend… and the obvious answer is ForeFront Data...
Date: 06/10/2010
“Anonymous” in SharePoint 2007
An interesting quirk was discovered at a customer site recently. They have a single SharePoint farm...
Date: 06/09/2010
Starting/Stopping your SharePoint 2010 Dev environment with Powershell
SharePoint 2010 introduced the ability to host SharePoint on Windows 7 for development...
Date: 05/28/2010
Do you Weally Want a Wiki?
There’s no question: Wiki is officially a corporate buzzword… and as with most buzzwords, a lot of...
Date: 05/12/2010
Disaster Recover vs. Fault Tolerance
Microsoft offers (for Premier support customers only) a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Risk...
Date: 02/03/2010
New Medical Condition: SharePointea Sitecollectionfearophobia
You may not have heard of this serious medical condition, but it exists in most people. It is the...
Date: 11/12/2009
It’s 10pm. Do you know what your server is doing?
It’s really surprising how many people really don’t. They might think they do… but they really...
Date: 10/16/2009
SharePoint Code Acceptance Process
While most companies make sincere attempts to stay as “out of the box” as possible,...
Date: 09/15/2009
Enable Page Tracing
There are times when you really want to know how your page was processed, what controls were loaded,...
Date: 09/01/2009
Separation of Roles
We see many instances in which the SQL DBA for SharePoint is the same as the SharePoint...
Date: 07/06/2009
Clarifications: Collaboration vs. Publishing
In SharePoint-Land there are two concepts that people have a hard time separating out:...
Date: 06/23/2009
Right vs. Wrong (not)
Someone recently posted a comment about one of my previous blog entries, and their comment in their...
Date: 03/07/2009
Portal Site Navigation Decisions
Equal only to branding, your SharePoint portal navigation structure has one of the biggest impacts...
Date: 03/02/2009
The Minimal Full-Deployment Infrastructure
Many of my customers ask me questions about what differentiates a successful MOSS deployment from a...
Date: 11/30/2008
The Value of Efficiency
It's sometimes difficult to justify a significant investment in a knowledge management system... it...
Date: 11/20/2008
What vs. Why
Documentation: Saying the word makes most geeks cringe, cry, or run to the comfort of the datacenter...
Date: 11/11/2008
Closing the Technology vs. Business Gap
I'm Chris Mullendore, a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer focusing on the Microsoft Office SharePoint...
Date: 10/22/2008