SharePoint in the wild

Recommendations and advice for common challenges

SharePoint 2013 - Export Index a la Crawl Log

I ran into an issue where I was replacing a competitor's search service. I needed to provide...

Author: Ryan Campbell Date: 08/15/2014

Securing SharePoint: Harden SQL Server in SharePoint Environments

As more and more sensitive data is stored in SharePoint, we find ourselves with a new requirement:...

Author: Ryan Campbell Date: 10/14/2013

Move a Web Application to a new Application Pool

A colleague sent me a great question today: "Instead of consolidating application pools, how do I...

Author: Ryan Campbell Date: 08/29/2013

SharePoint 2007 Upgrade – Identifying Customizations

During an upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to 2010, knowing where custom webparts and features are...

Author: Ryan Campbell Date: 06/11/2013

SSL Sites with Hostnames in SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013

As you implement SharePoint in your security-conscious enterprise, you'll run into a scalability...

Author: Ryan Campbell Date: 06/07/2013

SharePoint 2010 Architecture and Disaster Recovery – when to use UPRE and when to log ship

The SharePoint 2010 Database types and descriptions TechNet article was recently updated (March 5th,...

Author: Ryan Campbell Date: 03/07/2013

Find all list items with multiple values used

I was working with Russ today and an interesting question came up: If a user had a list with a...

Author: BigTallCampbell Date: 07/26/2012

Hyper-V Slow Host Network - How to Fix

Last week I installed the latest version of Windows 8 RP; I was really excited to see Hyper-V and a...

Author: BigTallCampbell Date: 06/11/2012

Database Attach breaks Alerts and the fix!

I got a query from a colleague about Alerts and went to test it. To my surprise, my test Alerts...

Author: BigTallCampbell Date: 01/03/2012

Post June 2011 CU Move-SPProfileManagedMetadataProperty BUG - and the workaround

If you're upgrading from SharePoint 2010 and following the post upgrade steps from Perform...

Author: BigTallCampbell Date: 11/22/2011

Changing the Application Pool on a Web Application the right way

I was working a farm today that had 10 web applications, all with their own application pool. As we...

Author: BigTallCampbell Date: 08/31/2011

Virtualization, the SAN and why one big RAID 5 array is wrong.

Today I've had no less than 3 ad hoc conversations about disk sharing for VMs. This isn't about...

Author: BigTallCampbell Date: 08/23/2011

First Blog Post

Well, this is my first blog post. This blog is designed to consolidate my ramblings and thoughts...

Author: BigTallCampbell Date: 08/23/2011