Category Archives: Technical
SharePoint History
For those that didn’t know SharePoint has been around since 2001. The 1st "real" version of SharePoint was based on the Exchange 2000 ESE database engine, instead of SQL. The version was code named "Tahoe" SharePoint 2003 brought in … Continue reading
Norton Internet Security 2010 was released today
I’ve been running the beta version since I started running the beta version of Windows 7. I’ve been VERY happy with NIS 2010. It is a huge improvement over the previous bloated, slow, and buggy released of Norton\Symantec’s security software … Continue reading
Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 have gone gold!
Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 have been RTM (as of 7/22/09)! I’ve been running Windows 7 now (my blog post on W7)for about 3 months and really love it. It makes up for all the issues with Vista. … Continue reading
Windows 7 RC is out!
Update 6/15/09: WebEx will work if you use Firefox to start & join meetings. Update 5/5/09: WebEx currently does not work with W7. I called WebEx and their official response was they would support it when it goes RTM. Currently … Continue reading
SharePoint 2007/WSS 3.0 SP2 was release today
Microsoft SharePoint\MOSS 2007 & Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) SP2 was released today. I just got done upgrade my (this) server to it and all went well. SharePoint team blog post on SP2 release with links Download WSS 3.0 SP2 Download … Continue reading
What’s New and Cool in Exchange 2010 (E14)
Quick post on my current (it will be updated as Exchange 2010 gets closer to RTM) list of New & Cool Features in Exchange 2010 aka E14 aka “twenty ten”. As of 4/15/09 this information has final become pubic, see … Continue reading
Exchange 2010 – It’s official!
Well it’s official as of today: The next version of Exchange will be called Exchange 2010! Today is the 1st day that those of us who have been in the know (Microsoft employees, Microsoft MVPs, and Microsoft TAP/RDP members) can start … Continue reading
A few sexy things to an Uber Geek
I See Your Petaflop and Raise You 19 More Super computer capiable of 10 petaflops with 1.6 million processing cores, 1.6 petabytes of memory, 96 racks and 98,304 computing nodes. Tela’s Model S (Sedan) The Model S will have … Continue reading
Mimosa releases SharePoint archiving solution
Yesterday Mimosa Systems, the company I work for, released their SharePoint\MOSS Archiving module for NearPoint. NearPoint now has archiving support for Exchange, File Systems, and SharePoint. All of these modules use a common architecture to provide global single instancing, searching, … Continue reading
Data management challenges with SharePoint
Cross-posted with my company’s blog:http://www.mimosasystems.com/blog/archiving/data-management-challenges-with-sharepoint/ As a veteran Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint expert I have witnessed the exponential growth of SharePoint over the last few years. As a consultant, before I joined Mimosa, I strongly encouraged my clients to stop using … Continue reading
Jason (Izzy) Sherry's Blog 