Troubleshooting SharePoint requires understanding the 8 Windows Services the platform depends on. Use this table to help identify services while researching issues. Also, pay attention to the account the service uses to run.   Security All of the ...[Read More]

At EndUserSharePoint.com, Lee Reed has shared a 4 minute video demonstrating how to add a map set at a fixed location very quickly using only your browser. Quick, easy, simple and open to even the newest SharePoint Site user.   Separately, Sandy Ja ...[Read More]

If you are in the Austin area, don't miss my upcoming presentation to the Austin SharePoint User Group: ----------------------------------------------------------- Join us for the February 10th Meeting of the Central Texas SharePoint User Group! ...[Read More]

If you haven't already grabbed the new SharePoint 2010 Virtual Machine images from Microsoft's downloads, read Barb Mosher's Get SharePoint 2010 Up and Running with VM from Microsoft Barb writes an excellent summary of each VM's purpose and how y ...[Read More]

Is the Gatherer a part of SharePoint 2007 or a relic of the the past? The SharePoint Log known as the ULS shows some errors regarding the Gatherer process. The documentation on SharePoint 2007 reveals no such beast to me. So that begs the questi ...[Read More]

I loved the recent Microsoft Certified Master Training I attended in Redmond last month. I learned so much and met and became friends with experts in the field. Some of the things we learned and discused don't seem so readily findable on the wide ...[Read More]

Joe, my big brother, who put me up for 3 weeks in Seattle last month, is part of a story that is all over the news today. While I was in Redmond at Microsoft Certified Master in SharePoint training, he was working very hard to get ready for a confe ...[Read More]

Twitter results are now showing on Google in Real Time. I tested it with the following tweet: Less than 60 seconds later, my Google results updated automatically with this:   Welcome to the Real Time Web! Are you taking advantage of the ...[Read More]

Read more about Twitter on Google with screenshots of my test... ...[Read More]

If you’ve read the Technet article, Plan for data protection and recovery, you’re familiar with the term, Recovery Point Objective. The Plan for data protection and recovery article also covers RPO and the related Recovery Time Objective. But what d ...[Read More]