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- Hyper-V SharePoint Development Image: USB 2.0 vs. eSATA vs. C:\ shootoutDecember 1 2008
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During my preparations for the the MSDN Webcast I'm presenting tomorrow I realized the eSATA
drive I purchased was not performing as fast as I thought it would. I decided to see exactly how
fast my external hard drive runs a virtual machine when it is connected via USB 2.0 vs. the eSATA
interface. I also threw in a test to see how the virtual machine runs on the host machine's C:\. It's
been a couple of years since I benchmarked a SharePoint virtual machine, so I thought I would
share the results with everyone. Hyper-V is the virtual technology I used to run the virtual machine
in this series of tests.Host Machine:
Dell Precision M6300 Laptop
Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 2.5Ghz
8GB RAM
Operating System: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64External Hard Drive:
Seagate 2.5" SATA II Hard Disk – 7200RPM 8MB Cache
INEO 2.5" External Hard Drive Case (Supports USB 2.0 and eSATA) - $29.95
eSATA Express Card 54 - $29.95Virtual Machine:
Windows 2003 Server R2 – Standard Edition
Domain Controller
Application Server
SQL Server 2005 – Standard Edition
MOSS 2007 Enterprise
VS.NET 2008
SharePoint Designer - SharePoint Certified Master - An Inside LookNovember 21 2008
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As you may have seen, Microsoft recently announced a pair of new certifications for SharePoint Products and Technologies. Spencer Harbar and Andrew Connell both have blog posts which describe the new certification programs and provide additional information that is not found on the official Microsoft site. I encourage you to read their posts to learn more.
As Andrew mentions in his blog post, the course authors and presenters include SharePoint Rangers, CAT team members, PFEs, MCS personnel, several members of the SharePoint product team and two SharePoint MVPs. Andrew Connell is the content owner, author and instructor for the WCM portion of the course and I am the content owner, author and instructor for the Business Data Catalog (BDC) portion of the SharePoint Master Certification course.
Last week I presented the BDC portion of the course during the alpha delivery and I can definitely say that the training sessions are unlike any I have ever seen or presented before.
- A great loss...September 5 2008
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It saddens me greatly to know Pat Tisseghem passed away yesterday. Every single time I met Pat at a conference or had dinner and drinks with him he was energetic, smiling, and a fun guy to be around; and that is how I will always remember him.
My heart goes out to his close family and friends and I wish you all the best!
Posted on SharePoint Blogs - Speaking at the SharePoint Web 2.0 FireStarter next weekJune 7 2008
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If you missed my Creating Solutions With The Business Data Catalog session at TechEd last week, and you'd like to see the SilverLight / BDC integration demo I did there, come attend the SharePoint Web 2.0 FireStarter event next week on the Microsoft campus. Heck, come attend anyway, there are many great topics and presentations scheduled. I'll be presenting my demo at the tail end of Steve Fox's SilverLight on SharePoint session. You can see the complete schedule and register here.
Posted on SharePoint Blogs - TechEd North America 2008 Session Materials : Creating Solutions with the Business Data CatalogJune 7 2008
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Thanks to everyone who came to my session last week at the Microsoft TechEd 2008 North America Developer conference! It was really nice to see so many past students at the show and I enjoyed catching up with everyone. On Wednesday night I had the chance to hang out with many of the Microsoft MVPs and watch the Blues Brothers kick it at the House of Blues. Eric Shupps accompanied the Blues Brothers for a song, I wish I had a picture of it, I thought he did pretty well. :) I met Brett Lonsdale for the first time, Nick Swan's partner at BDC Meta Man, and we shared some great laughs with Rob Bogue. AC was absolutely mobbed during his book signings; it was really cool to see a person as talented and hard working as Andrew enjoying the spotlight. Thanks for the book AC! Brad Smith gave us a demo of his new Black Black appliance and we were all impressed. I only saw Stacy Draper, Scott Hillier and Bob Mixon for a short time, and it's always good to