Feb 28
10 hours down the road and we now have a SQL 2005 installation. I’m not sure if I missed something during the install (and I did it twice after the tempDB issues (see below)) but I couldn’t find where to set the default Database and Logfile locations during install. (Should I have used the command …
Feb 27
Well I didn’t find a ton of information last night on SQL 2005 installations, but I did find an interesting WhitePaper on the Microsoft site that looks at Physical DataBase Storage design, which really did cover a lot of what information I was looking for. Click here for the Physical Database Storage Design Whitepaper Some …
Feb 26
Well actually it’s just one thing. That is, make sure we get the SQL 2005 installation right first time for MOSS 2007. So, I’m sat here at 10pm, waiting for a process to finish thats going to run until at least 11:45pm. So google is my latest friend in the search for installation and tuning …
Feb 24
Well the journey home wasn’t too bad, although I had to dive off the M1 at junction 10 due to the traffic backing up from the M25. Apparently 44 miles of queuing traffic trying to get round from Leatherhead to the M1 was to blame! I cut along the A1081 and through St Albans which …
Feb 23
Well the course is nearly over, and it’s been an interesting week. Not everything that I did on our Sandbox environment was completely wrong, but the course has given me some much better ideas of how to do things and the best practices involved. One thing Microsoft, How many passwords do you want set up …
Feb 19
Well, I’m up in Leicestershire now ready for a 9am start on my course. SharePoint 2007 Administration with Combine-Knowledge. I’ll put a review of the course up on the SUGUK forums later this week. Something about a relaxing start in a hotel room, whats especially nice is that I don’t actually have to leave the …
Feb 16
Well I finally managed to persuade the boss to send me on a SharePoint 2007 admin course, So Sunday evening I’m off up to the Combined Knowledge residential course for a week of total immersion into MOSS2007. Finally I’ll be able to get some confirmation of the thoughts and dreams I’ve had for SharePoint but …
Feb 13
Well MOSS 2007 is now starting to make headway, We’ve received the medias and I’ve now got to freshly built physical boxes to put the SQl database and the Search and indexing platforms on. We’re going to put the Web front endonto a virtual server, this will enable us to scale the solution up, rather …
Feb 11
Took a trip to the Wood and Power tool show at Ally Pally today (Alexandra Palace in London for those that aren’t familiar). It’s weird how much the area has changed in 20 years and yet still looks the same. I guess it’s like your living room, The colour and wallpaper changes over time, but …
Feb 09
Friday just dragged… Not the most of exciting days today.. However Grease 2 was on this evening. Most of my hormonal years were spent dreaming of Michelle Pfeiffer in some of the costumes from that film. I went to see it at the cinema in Barnet 15 times!