The Requirement A customer had quite the mess of a SharePoint farm. Efforts are being made to clean it up … but in the meantime, they required a backup of a SharePoint Content Database (from 5 days ago) to be restored into a new (temporary) Web ...[Read More]

I ran into a situation today where I had a beautiful plan, diagrams and naming convention all set to go, for a new 4 FARM SharePoint Implementation. I had planned on having two SQL Instances created, one called INTERNAL (Intranet, etc.) and one ca ...[Read More]

This is an old post that I'm refreshing as I noticed it was appearing in search results (but on my old blog, I got TONNES of people saying this helped them, so I'm hoping to do that again by bumping this to the top...)   Ok, this one took a whil ...[Read More]

If you have a massive, giant, huge, big (throwing the words in there, for folks on Google to find this post :) SQL ERRORLOG file, you will want to do TWO things (don't just perform step #2, it will likely be back!)  SQL ERRORLOG growth, when it sta ...[Read More]

This question was raised in our little Canadian MVP circle today and I figured if I took the time to reply to the email, I could take the time to post the answer to the blog as well. So… the default maximum file size for uploading to SharePoint ...[Read More]

Well, what do ya know?  Apparently, Microsoft loves, my love for SharePoint (and all those other related things I do – SharePoint, Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, IIS, ASP.NET – you know, all those things that SharePoint works with – I think I was ...[Read More]

The following links have been assembled to assist anyone trying to move SharePoint Databases in either WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007.   Move all databases (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512723.aspx Move ...[Read More]

First off, I never install SharePoint (WSS or MOSS) with the default configuration. This would leave me without the ability to grow a farm (and if we implement SharePoint right for an organization, its popularity and use with grow and if it makes ...[Read More]

You can do it the hard way Stop/Start SQL Server to release current ERRORLOG files and then delete them from C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\LOG or wherever they might be   Or, you can...   Do it the easy way Recycle ...[Read More]

  Beer Me! Ok, I've been told I've helped a number of people, over the years, with my postings (in newsgroups and such) and my blog (blog.brainlitter.com). And people always tell me "oh, I owe you a beer", or "if you were nearby, ...[Read More]