I often get asked about the pros and cons of using SharePoint Designer versus custom site definitions for branding purposes. There seems to be a great deal of confusion surrounding this topic so I’ll offer my two cent’s worth in hopes that it clears the air and helps you, the SharePoint developer or administrator, make […]

Just a reminder that the August meeting of the D/FW SharePoint Community is Tuesday the 19th. K2 will be presenting one of their workflow applications and my friends over at Barracuda Software will be talking about user permission management and their DeliverPoint product. In the Developer breakout session we will be discussing the use, creation […]

Last night I presented Full Speed Ahead – Developing High Performance Applications for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to the SharePoint UK User Group in London. We had a record turnout of 139 people; in fact, so many showed up that we ran short of pizza and drinks. Fortunately, the local pub was a quick […]

For about a month now I’ve been running Windows Server 2008 on a Macbook Pro. My initial theory was that Win2k8 + Hyper-V + Macbook Pro would beat the pants off of any Vista system in terms of virtual machine performance. My experience running this configuration validates that theory – Win2k8 on this machine is […]

Today marks the official launch of the International SharePoint Professionals Association (ISPA). This is an exciting project that I have been involved with for some time. Go to the ISPA web site and Bob Fox’s blog to get the official lowdown. From my perspective, what excites me the most about this organization is the tremendous […]

Join me at the July meeting of the D/FW SharePoint Community. I will be doing a presentation on Configuring MOSS for Optimal Performance (hey, me, doing an Admin talk? What’s the world coming to?) and Idera will be discussing various management and monitoring tools for SharePoint. During the Developer breakout sessions Rajesh Satluri will show […]

To all of you in the US, and those Americans currently residing in other countries, I’d like to wish you and yours a very happy Independence Day (or, as my friends in the UK like to call it, "Getting Rid of the Colonies Day").  May your beer be cold, your barbecue spicy, and your fireworks […]

To make a very long story very short, I’m rebuilding a production server farm from the ground up due to improper sizing of the server root partitions when the project was initiated. Fortunately, I built the farm with full redundancy so I can pull servers out, have them rebuilt, and put them back into production […]

I posted last week on my decision to ditch the Tablet PC platform and switch to a Macbook Pro. Unlike many others who run some flavor of Windows in conjunction with the Mac OS, I have absolutely no interest in using OS X, Y, Z or any other flavor of Jobsian operating systems. My primary […]

Let me begin by saying that I absolutely love the Tablet PC form factor and the Inking experience.  There is nothing more intuitive than picking up a pen and interacting with a digital interface (short of touch but that falls short when you want to write something down).  If you don’t believe me, put a […]