Last December I wrote an article titled Working With SQL Aliases where I explained a bit about why I use them. It’s still a controversial topic with some disagreeing that it provides any benefit at all, at least during SharePoint setup time. The primary argument I’ve heard against it, is that its confusing and someone [...]
By now, many SharePoint Administrators have heard this “best practice:” Use SQL Aliases. Recently, I was surprised to hear that this may not be unanimous – Todd Klindt (@toddklindt) in his weekly netcast argues against it. Todd also pointed out Todd Carter’s (@toddca) blog post where he suggests always using SQL Aliases. In my work, [...]
This week, I was helping a colleague set up a more robust development environment for SharePoint. We got stuck while trying to provision the User Profile Service (UPS). It would change to “Starting” and after 20-45 minutes, show “Stopped” again. Spence Harbar’s (@harbars) blog post “Rational Guide to implementing SharePoint Server 2010 User Profile Synchronization” [...]