The AKG Blog

Updates and patches - preventing those 3 am calls

Benjamin Hartley — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:28:45 -0500

It’s 3 am on a weekend. One of your SharePoint servers just went down and you don’t know why. Employees are on the phone, demanding the server be brought back up – now! Even though it’s outside normal business hours, even though there’s no one in the office, the server still needs to be up.

Regularly updating your SharePoint servers does not guarantee they will not go down. There are always unexpected situations, even in software. But to ignore known issues in the hopes that they won’t crop up would be very poor practice. Every system administrator needs to regularly check for updates and known problems with their systems, and address these problems as they are discovered. Learn more ›

Availability - An Introduction

Benjamin Hartley — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:23:08 -0500

SharePoint sites host crucial business data and provide necessary business functionality for an entire organization. As such, being able to access SharePoint is of great importance to a business. But how important? The reality is that achieving complete availability is very expensive. Learn more ›

Northern Virginia Code Camp December 2008

Janetra Meyers — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:27:45 -0500

Northern Virginia Code Camp December 2008 - This event was held on December 6th, 2008 at the Microsoft Offices in Reston, VA. Learn more ›

Keeping a SharePoint Environment User Friendly

Andy Campbell — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:58:38 -0500

After a while, if things go well, you are going to have a lot of SharePoint sites in your environment. If you are making full use of SharePoint, you are going to be asking your people to put documents on a site and send links to the document in email – not attachments. You will be using the power of document version control, meeting management, workflow automation, etc. As the SharePoint site taxonomy grows, users need to know how to create a new site to support their work. Learn more ›

Missed opportunities

Benjamin Hartley — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:23:00 -0500

The IBM PC was first sold in August of 1981. The original IBM PC had a 4.77 mHz CPU, 64 kB of RAM, a CGA video card, a pair of built-in 5 ¼” floppy drives, and the ability to easily add a 10 mB hard drive. Nearly three decades ago, that was a very nice personal computer, but it wasn’t half the computer it could have been, and it’s worth our time to examine why. Learn more ›

The third day at Dev Con 2008 cont'd

Janetra Meyers — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:09:53 -0500

The second part of Dev Con 2008 day three Learn more ›

The third day at Dev Con 2008 and the semi-summary

Janetra Meyers — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:02:13 -0500

The recaps for the third day at Dev Con have been cut down because of my focus on subjects that are not as familiar to me. Learn more ›

And then there was the second day at Dev Con 2008

Janetra Meyers — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:29:01 -0500

I will break down my post into the order of the sessions: Learn more ›

Post-First Dev Con post

Janetra Meyers — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:19:24 -0500

Well the first Keynote address of Dev Con 2008 was eventful enough for a blog post. The first speaker was Britt Johnson and he talked about the history of database technology. He then addressed the new and exciting features of SQL Server 2008. Learn more ›

First blog post from Dev Con 2008

Janetra Meyers — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:12:29 -0500

I received a free backpack from Dev Con Learn more ›