Bill Baer /bɛːr/

The Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administrateer (good catch A Mondale) and manage Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services version 3.0. This toolkit contains two new functions - the ability to perform bulk operations on site collections and a Stsadm operation to update alert emails after a Web application has changed URLs. Download x86 | x64

Tip of the day: Deleting orphaned Timer Jobs Open SharePoint Central 3.0 Central Administration and click Operations. Select Timer job definitions under Global Configuration. Select the orphaned Timer Job from the list of Timer Jobs. Locate the Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) for the Timer Job in the browser address bar. Copy the GUID to the clipboard and replace %2D in the GUID with hyphens. For example the entry in the illustration above should appear as fc42d1d3-1e94-4dee-998d-e0086b6f8300.

I’ve discussed on several occasions Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring with Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies as a method by which database mirroring can provide intra-datacenter high-availability; however, am frequently asked how Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring can provide protection from datacenter failure. While possible, you generally do not want to geographically distribute your principal and mirror instances due to potential problems with maintaining synchronicity and bandwidth/latency constraints instead maintaining and intra-datacenter session to provide local fault tolerance; however, you can implement Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Log Shipping in conjunction with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring to provide a standby copy of your databases in the remote datacenter.

A new whitepaper has been published on protecting the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Search components. The whitepaper includes scripts to enable Data Protection Manager 2007 to backup and recover the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Search components and a detailed set of instructions on configuring Data Protection Manager 2007. The sample scripts provide guidance on backing up the search index, Search and Shared Services Provider databases. Read more…

The SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation has been recently published to MSND which includes technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented in SharePoint Products and Technologies. Read more…

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The Index server, is it a single point of failure? One of the most common concerns is that of the index server role (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007) as a single point of failure in a server farm; however, there is a misconception that you are limited to a single index server per server farm, while the index server role is limited within a server farm, the limitation is strictly association with a Shared Services Provider.

One of my favorite components to any conference is ATE (Ask the Experts), which based on the overall response recently at the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Conference 2008, is both popular and extremely valuable in providing an opportunity for open discourse and topic-based discussion. With that in mind, I have often considered the concept of a virtual ATE on my blog. While I generally prepare and deliver content based on what the community has most often requested or where I feel there is desire for more information, I’d like to give the concept of a virtual ATE here.

I’m often asked either when I became involved with Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies or what single event resulted in my evangelism and subsequent work with Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, so here we go: I was attending a meeting in June of 2000, at the time, just having joined Compaq Computer Corporation’s Enterprise Solutions and Services division when I listened to Michael Capellas, then CEO, envision Compaq as “guided by a single, focused vision: Everything to the Internet”, (I still have my laminated card, fitted for a badge holder, with those words emblazoned).