If you have managed to successfully configure User Profile Synchronization in your 2013 environment (which is a daunting task in and of itself) then at some point you are going to have to deal with the personal sites of users who have been disabled or removed from Active Directory. SharePoint tries to be helpful in […]

Anyone who has ever tried to do an in-place upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to 2010 knows what a complete nightmare that process could be; without much effort you could easily destroy a farm and spend endless hours trying to rebuild from scratch. The process was so fragile and prone to failure that in the 2013 […]

PremierPoint Solutions (formerly SharePoint Solutions) has recently released an updated version of their Site Provisioning and Governance Assistant product for on-premise deployments of SharePoint 2010 and 2013. SPGA is designed to address a common concern in enterprise SharePoint deployments – administrative control over site growth and proliferation. Anyone who has ever tried to contain the […]

  Another year, another TechEd over and done with. It was exciting to have a big technology conference back in the great State of Texas and the City of Houston did us all proud. Great times with great friends and lots of interesting discussions regarding SharePoint, Office 365, Azure, and a bunch of other cool […]

Another great SPTechCon as come and gone.  As always, the team at BZ Media did a great job putting on a top-notch event.  Many thanks to everyone who attended my sessions and for all the great questions. Links to the slide decks and demo code can be found below. See you all at the next […]

Configuring Search in SharePoint 2013 can be a tricky process that is best accomplished via PowerShell scripts. For starters, those messy database names with GUID’s in them that get created from UI provisioning are just hideous, but the real issue is that a proper topology (meaning search components running on more than a single machine) […]

For several years now, Steve Smith and the gang at Combined Knowledge have hosted one of the best SharePoint conferences anywhere in the world. Under various guises as "SharePoint Best Practices Conference", "International SharePoint Conference", or "SharePoint Evolution Conference", this annual London event is something that both the attendees and the speakers look forward to […]

Today the good folks at Combined Knowledge and myself received some excellent news – our Support+ app was approved for the SharePoint Store and is now available for download. Although I’ve been working on SharePoint apps since mid-2012 (yeah, it really has been that long) this is the first commercial app that I’ve had published […]

​The next SharePoint Conference is almost upon us.  From March 3rd through the 6th of 2014 the greater SharePoint community will be descending upon Las Vegas once again to collaborate, communicate and commiserate.  This year I’ll be going a bit easy on the speaking so I can spend more time networking and getting a feel for what’s happening out in the […]

With the release of the app model in SharePoint 2013, and all the subsequent marketing hype surrounding Office 365 and the determination of Microsoft to push their customers into the cloud, many have predicted that the end of full-trust farm solutions was nigh. For a while, especially if the rumors swirling within the greater SharePoint […]