Oct21
The SharePoint Fairy. She is the director of Marketing for her company and they bought two conference badges and she has been wearing a fairy costume. Talk about buzz. She is getting more attention then many of the booths getting her photo taken etc. Heck we even started a twitter hashtag for her #spfairy
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Posted by David Broussard on
Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009 09:52.
Oct21
So after day 1 and day 2 of the Conference I am ready to share some of my initial thoughts. In the work that I do there are two big issues that customers struggle with in making effective use of SharePoint inside of their organizations. Honestly there are many more then two, but I am going to address two of them in this post.
SharePoint Development is Software Development
The first is tre...
Posted by David Broussard on
Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009 09:43.
Oct20
So, I am off to the Microsoft SharePoint Conference to learn all about SPS 2010 and hang out with some great SharePoint peeps. I will also be tweeting as much as possible during the conference. Initially I was planning on just using my iPhone for tweets as the laptop will never make it through a day and power figures to be at a premium.
Getting from San Antonio to Las Vegas is a two stage af...
Posted by David Broussard on
Tuesday, 20 Oct 2009 10:01.
Oct9
San Antonio is hosting a SharePoint Saturday on November 14th 2009. We are going to have a great set of speakers. Some of these would include
Matt McDermott - gave one of the top presentations at SPC 08
Heather Solomon - top branding MVP
Tiffany Songvilay - one of the most exciting speakers SASUG has ever had
Kirk Evans - wears a UGA hat so he has to ROCK!
Brad Freels
Travis Lingenfe...
Posted by David Broussard on
Friday, 9 Oct 2009 08:34.
Sep2
When I first installed Windows 7 RC, the image that I used had Virtual PC 2007 SP1 installed on it. Shortly afterwards Microsoft released the Beta for Windows 7 Virtual PC (KB958559). I happily downloaded the update, ran it, and then merrily went on my way for a couple of weeks where I never had to fire up a Virtual Machine. Along the way I read some great articles about how I would be able...
Posted by David Broussard on
Wednesday, 2 Sep 2009 11:43.
Aug28
This is part three in a continuing series, you should read Part I and Part II first.
So far, in our quest to performance test SharePoint we have established a number of important criteria. First off, we know how users will actually be using our system and from that we have been able to create some test scripts and usage profiles. We then determined about how much stress our farm will have to...
Posted by David Broussard on
Friday, 28 Aug 2009 09:30.
Aug26
This is the second in a series of entries about Performance Testing in SharePoint. You can read Part I here.
To recap, we want to test the performance of a SharePoint intranet so, we created a set of user profiles and determined how often each profile will be executed. Then we ran a set of tests using those profiles and made some performance improvements on the system. However, we have yet ...
Posted by David Broussard on
Wednesday, 26 Aug 2009 01:33.
Aug20
Recently I was involved in a couple of engagements to performance test SharePoint for a couple of companies. In both cases the basic questions was, “Will the performance be acceptable with our current configuration?”. The question for us was really how do we answer that question to our satisfaction, and to the satisfaction of the client?
To answer the client’s question, we had to be able t...
Posted by David Broussard on
Thursday, 20 Aug 2009 01:34.
Aug18
We’ve all done it…we see the landing page of our Intranet like our plate at an all you can eat Chinese buffet. We pile content on our plate like we toss General Joe’s Chicken on top of Mongolian Beef, and for good measure we put a large dynamic graphic in the banner just like we precariously balance one more cheese rangoon on the top of our plate. As we teeter carefully back to our table to p...
Posted by David Broussard on
Tuesday, 18 Aug 2009 11:02.