October 2011 Blog Posts
As promised during my sessions at the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim last week, here are the Windows PowerShell scripts demonstrated. Please note that these scripts are direct copies of those on my Virtual Machines. You *will* need to tweak them for use on your environments, and remember they are authored for the purposes of demonstration! If you wish to take pieces of them to use in a real deployment, they will need some work. The scripts are provided as is, without any warranties! You know the score. SPC407: Enterprise Deployment Considerations for the User Profile Service Application. ...
SharePoint Conference 2011 is in full effect here in sunny Anaheim, CA. Following this morning’s keynote it is worth pointing you in the direction of a couple absolute must haves which were released today as part of the overall festivities. First up is the Scale Test Report for Very Large Scale Document Repositories white paper which describes the design and implementation of a 120 million (count em) item, 30Tb farm – the same farm that was used in the keynote HA demo. The number of times I’ve had to discuss “scalability limits” of SharePoint with customers is frightening, and...
This morning at the sold out SharePoint Conference 2011 we officially announced the new premier certification for SharePoint practitioners, the Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) for SharePoint Server 2010. During his keynote address, Jeff Teper, Corporate Vice President of the SharePoint Product Group discussed the key role the SharePoint eco system has and will continue to play in the run away success of Microsoft’s platform without peers in the marketplace. The MCA program helps the highest-achieving IT architecture professionals distinguish their expertise with Microsoft server technologies, including SharePoint solutions for enterprise customers. MCA will recognise the best of the best...