Some time ago I had the bright idea of moving the SQL databases for Sharepoint. I was running a VPC with only one virtual drive and started running out of disk space. So I decided to create another virtual drive, detach the SQL databases from SQL Server, copy them to the new drive, mount the databas... (more)

Unified Communications is changing the way we design, operate and service business communications in the Enterprise. Regardless of the size of your business, the ability to bring together telephony with business and desktop applications enhances communications. Nortel and Microsoft are pleased to ... (more)

In my previous blog I wrote on how to use PowerShell to do various things in SharePoint.  Well today I had to a lot of information on site collections in a farm.  Things like list all the site collections in all web applications and show the owner, owner email, URL, name, quota, actual size etc.  Ju... (more)

In the first of this series of articles discussing Microsoft Enterprise Search we covered some of the common and most important challenges associated with enterprise search and why it's so different to Internet search. In this second article we will explore Microsoft's vision and strategy including ... (more)

Here I talk about how to modify a new master page to include the contextual search redirect box (covered in my earlier post: Part 1). I thought it might be a good idea to display the contextual search box in left navigation bar, my reasoning being that a contextual search is like the other quick la... (more)