Content Management Interoperability Specification Released

Microsoft, IBM, EMC, Alfresco, Oracle, SAP and OpenText have worked together on driving a standards effort for Enterprise Content Management. This will be referred to as “Content Management Operabililty Services”, (CIMS for short).
The Technical Specification is posted here.
See the blog post at Enterprise Content Management Blog.
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Virtualization and SharePoint

I know a number of customers and organizations out there who have taken the plunge and are moving Production based servers to a level of virtualization not seen in past years.  With that in mind we are constantly being asked for our best Architecture and Support recommendations on running SharePoint in a virtual environment so [...]

SharePoint Application Design

I was doing a bit of research for one of my clients and they were asking for guidance on how to design and deploy applications to SharePoint. In my hunts and travels I came across this bit of useful information on codeplex.
Patterns and Practices for SharePoint Guidance this is published and updated on a regular basis [...]

SharePoint Recovery White Paper

So I was tasked with writing a white paper and with the help of one of the brightest minds at Quest, Ilia Sotnikov, I managed to get it published.  I owe Ilia a callout for pushing me to blog and for getting the link to the paper posted first SharePoint Recovery .  This paper should be considered [...]