March 2008 Entries

SharePoint 2007: Revenge of the 100GB Database

Right...he's a Star Wars geek. Check. I wanted to discuss something else I heard a lot about at the SharePoint 2008 conference. The 100GB database limitation. Organizations are now looking at SharePoint as a legitimate large scale application. They want to believe. They want to engage. Then they all hit their heads on the same thing. 100GB database size recommendation. Folks... it's a recommendation. The answer to the question of can we go bigger is the same as what I heard several

Large Scale Architecture Question

So the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008 wrapped up on Thursday. What an amazing ride! It blows me away to see how SharePoint is absolutely exploding. It fires up my passion for SharePoint technology even more! Paul Learning, Andy Hopkins, and I did finally present during the last session slot of the conference. There weren't as many attendees as I would have like to have seen, but what the heck, I usually bail early on the last day too! Anyway, with the smaller group of only about 30

Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008

Uhhh. If you haven't gotten the memo yet folks. SharePoint is HOT!!!! I've been to a few different conferences in the last couple years and it is very clear that interest in SharePoint is growing at a rapid pace. Now that SharePoint has split off from the MS Office conference there is a pure focus at the MS SharePoint Conference 2008.