I first started SharePoint back in 2002 along with Microsoft Content Management Server. I had real concerns when MCMS 2002 was merged with SharePoint, it seemed like Microsoft were merging a quality program with a specific aim with the far bigger Sh ...[Read More]

Having installed the pre-requisites for SharePoint including SQL Server 2008 SP1 (Build 2007.100.2531.0), I run into a problem when running the SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard, when the wizard checks the SQL Database version you get th ...[Read More]

One of the nice new features when you install SharePoint 2010 Beta 1 is the pre-requisites checker. It will test your current installation to ensure that it meets the requirements of SharePoint 2010 and then attempt to download and install the missi ...[Read More]

I decided to upgrade an old file server and deploy Windows Server 2008, having successfully deployed Windows it was time to deploy SQL Server 2008 to the box. I downloaded the SQL Server 2008 iso from MSDN, the initial attempt at deploying SQL Serv ...[Read More]