Monthly Archives: November 2009

Determining Hardware and Software requirements for SharePoint 2010 (Beta)

Microsoft have released a slew of information on what you need to get your beta SharePoint 2010 server up and running – check it out here… http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485(office.14).aspx

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White paper on setting up a “Stretch Farm” – SharePoint with <10 second failover & no data loss

Microsoft have published a case study on creating a Highly Available Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Environment by Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring in a Windows Server 2008 Virtualized Environment – http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/0/0/500ABD93-DF75-4B30-856E-63D39CB2A1C3/MOSS%20Stretch%20Farm%20Case%20Study_update.docx. It came out end July, so I’m … Continue reading

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Multiple choice fields get set to default value when saving a document to SharePoint 2007 using Office Word 2003

Had this happen to me at a client’s site. Would not have believed it if I had not seen it with my own eyes… When a user opened an office document (in our case, it was a word document) in … Continue reading

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The best search tutorial ever

I just stumbled across a massively funny search tutorial site – LMGTFY.com – standing for, "Let me Google that for you". Try it!   http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sharepoint+2010 http://lmgtfy.com/?q=oakton http://lmgtfy.com/?q=the+muppet+show  http://lmgtfy.com/?q=del+rio+resort – the place I’m camping this weekend!   Sweet…

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SharePoint 2010 features for IT Professionals

This is an excellent paper describing the new features that appear in SharePoint 2010, and highlights enhancements and differentiations between Standard and Enterprise versions of SharePoint.   http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167123 &#8211; Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Evaluation Guide   Brad     

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