Ok, first off, the title is an oxymoron. This is a downgrade.   Customers end up in this situation because they downloaded a SQL Server Evaluation and Microsoft only provides SQL in the 'Enterprise Edition' format.   Second, SQL Server 2008 ...[Read More]

We spent a little time this week putting together a list of what we believe are the benefits customers get, working with itgroove. You'll notice we didn't put things like "we're wicked smart" or "we're great haxors". We tried t ...[Read More]

Ok don't get too excited, this is short and sweet and off the cuff for a customer. It is a test script (like an actor reads a script) of items that could/should be checked, to ensure SharePoint was healthy, after patching or major work. This isn't ...[Read More]

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]