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My SharePoint blog will contain information and links to other bloggers that
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4/16/2008I just noticed this was the first time this year that I have posted anything to my blog, bad on my part but I have been very busy starting a "green field" SharePoint environment for my new company. With all of my excuses thrown out there, I am scheduled to attend a Ted Pattison Group class in Redmond (WA) at the Microsoft Campus focused on Web Content Management. I am looking forward to learning from an expert in the field, Andrew Connell, and bringing back a bunch of knowledge to continue with my implementation.
Link to Andrew Connell's Blog About WCM Training
Ted Pattison Group's WCM 401 Class 12/27/2007So a couple of weeks ago I started working for a new company and my first task is to develop an enterprise collaboration and publishing platform. I have a total "green field" and have started to gain knowledge and advice from a bunch of sources. The first thing I have started to look it is the network and hardware requirements. These are very important to me because I want this platform to be highly available and if one of the database servers should die, I want the SQL servers to be disk-mirrored. I need lots of SQL space (thinking about 2 terabytes on each server) and also trying to incorporate a virtualized environment that will enhance portability and keep costs down in the future.
I am not a hardware guy, so my recommended server is a Dell PowerEdge 2950, these will work well for both the Web-Frontends (WFE) and the SQL 2005/2008 Servers, and I will max out the RAM and have a web admin slap on Windows Server 2008 in the future. Yes, we are going to live on the bleeding-edge based on these criterion:
- If we use Windows Server 2003, an upgrade path is in our future within the next two years. I don't want that mess.
- If we use Windows Server 2008, we will have some issues but they are workable and will play into our plan of building a world-class operation. The biggest obstacle for this from my point of view is Internet Information Services (IIS) 7, but this is a training issue versus a technology issue.
Either way, Windows Server 2008 is in our future, and adopting a bleeding-edge mentality with a new environment should work out for us in the positive column. I'll let you know in a year how I feel about my decision.
Also, I will have two major locations, so having them experience SharePoint in the same way is very important. I do not want SharePoint in one location giving a bad impression to the other location. With that said, I am going to strategically place a couple WFEs for my customers so each location will access SharePoint from their primary location.
One last requirement for the platform is to make all of the appropriate services available from one environment. In other words, if you are a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) user, or an external WSS user, or a internal portal user, you will visit one large farm, not four different boutique environments. That task will fall on our Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server to publish content and restrict access to proper users.
12/3/2007On Friday, it was announced that the sale of the Bobcat, Utilities and Attachment groups were sold to Doosan and so my 3 year, 4-month journey at Ingersoll Rand ended. I can say many positive things about me working at Ingersoll Rand, namely moving from the snow-laden land of New Hampshire to Charlotte, North Carolina. Meeting new people that on the most part been a pleasure to work with has been a positive. But this past 8 months have been very difficult and now that I start my new career at Doosan Infracore International. I am honestly looking forward to it.
This post does not relate to SharePoint, but I think it could in the future because of the fact that I will have far more projects to transfer knowledge back and forth. I hope to write down more information and have the site mirrored when I am more consistent. 10/12/2007
One of the resources the RunAsRadio show talked about was at CodePlex about "SharePoint Governance and Manageability". Bunch of tools. 9/14/2007From Ciber's release, the goal was to allow public school stakeholders to "easily and cost-effectively share OCPS information with its constituents. The secure portal provides specific sites and information for students, parents, and community members. For OCPS employees, the portal offers secure access to departmental information, such as human resources, payroll, curriculum services, and finance and budget data." The web portal is among the first nationwide to use SharePoint 2007 and exploit its powerful distributed content management and workflow capabilities. "We were looking for an efficient way to provide important information to our constituents, without having to rely on programmers or specialized staff to create web pages, data dashboards, and scorecards,” said Nick Gledich, Chief Operating Officer, Orange County Public Schools. “CIBER created for us an open, scalable, service-oriented architecture portal that can be easily updated and integrated with our other IT systems, so it will grow as our needs change.” Orange County Public Schools is the 11th largest district in the nation and ranked the 4th largest in Florida with more than 177,000 students in over 170 schools. This is a very good market for the adoption of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 technology because of the amount of content that is viewed by schools/parents and should have a high ROI in this and other education systems. If I find more success stories, I will post them here.
Orange County Public Schools Web Portal
Ciber's Press Release Yesterday, I was approved to attend the SharePoint Connections training conference at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. It will be the first conference that I have attended in 2007, so I am looking forward to meeting the industry experts and learning the latest information about SharePoint. If anyone is interesting in going, visit the DevConnections web site for more information. 9/7/2007
I tried a new tool this week that makes my life a little easier, and my Windows desktop a little more visually appealing. Object Dock by Stardock is not only easy to use, but can be personalized by various menus to include skins and system memory usage.
There are a couple of items to get used to, like hiding the Windows task bar and showing or hiding the dock when the screen focus goes away. The basic product is free (the one I tested), but there is a pay-for-use version that has more features.
Give Object Dock a try, this is a very useful way to organize your Windows desktop.
7/14/2007My personal SharePoint blog can be accessed a couple different ways. The primary URLs for this blog are:
If you would like to contact me, I will provide a form in the future once the site is up and running.
Thanks.
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