Nov
03
2009

Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007 – Evaluating the MS Solution

Ever have a disaster with one of your servers?  No?  You lucky bastard…
Recently we had corruption of a number of our Virtual Machines (caused by a fault in the firmware of our “enterprise” storage system from a Nameless Mainstream Vendor, which was triggered by unexpected filesystem behavior from an Evil Mainstream Company’s virtualization platform).  This [...]

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Nov
03
2009

Sharepoint – farm build procedure

After a semi-disaster with SharePoint earlier this week, I have been forced into the view that I really should have our SharePoint infrastructure hosted on more than one web server.  To that end, I am planning the deployment of a new, 2+ node Windows SharePoint Services farm. 
Initial architecture will be something like this:

Host: SharePoint2

Roles:  [...]

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