Sunday Afternoon Coffee with SharePoint Bloggers - Redondo Beach, CA

The Windows SharePoint Services team signed off on Beta 2 this past Monday.  The cabin doors are closed and the plane has started taxiing. Before long, the plane will reach the runway... throttle up... the EPR will quickly rise, the brakes will be released, and the plane will begin sauntering down the runway... it will hit V1 and then Vr, rotate and finally take off into the wild blue yonder. I’m sure the blogging world will light up once Beta 2 is released to the world and you... more

For those of you who may not have noticed, Microsoft recently updated the capacity planning whitepaper for SharePoint 2003.  I did this work earlier this winter to look at what had been in the capacity planning whitepaper, and update it to reflect a change in databases from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005.  You can see the results of this testing at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA100993571033.aspx.   So, what are the important things to note about this testing?  ... r... more

First, let me get a couple of cynical statements out of the way... Blogging is overrated RSS is extremely overrated At a fundamental level, each of these concepts are nothing more than a rehash of concepts and technologies that have existed for years.  I’ve been "blogging" for well over 12 years; either by hosting my own servers (vbbs in 1994, wss in 2004) or via hosted applications (1997). In effect, some new stuff is really not that new.  So when so... more