January 2008 Entries

Joel Oleson and the Anatomy of Indexing

Ok. So the real reason that I chose today to on-ramp this blog. I wanted to add a little something to Joel Oleson's post yesterday regarding the Anatomy of Indexing. First of all, I'm sure anyone interested in my take on SharePoint is probably well aware of Joel Oleson. Most of the SharePoint community, myself included, holds Joel in the highest respect. I respect him for his wealth of SharePoint knowledge and his willingness to share it. I met him recently and in addition to being a S

Microsoft Gets FAST!

Before I continue on with any other posts on this blog, I have to lay some very exciting groundwork. I said in my bio that SharePoint can be architected to scale from a single server installation that handles just a handful of static documents to extremely large implementations consisting of multiple farms that can handle 50 terabytes or more. Well, this is statement requires a bit of qualification. I have been part of architecture teams that have loaded 10s of terabytes into SharePoint

It Begins

My name is Russ Houberg (queue the Knight Rider music...OK, don't). I've been serving clients as a SharePoint developer/architect for several years now. I've tinkered around with blog posts in the past but they were always broad topics. My goal is to focus this blog directly on my experiences with SharePoint. I don't claim to know all. In fact, much of what you find here will be my take on what I've learned from others. The rest will be the results of my actual successes and failures.