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Michael Noel

Michael Noel is a partner at Convergent Computing, a Microsoft SharePoint MVP, and the author of books on SharePoint, Windows Server, ISA Server, and Exchange Server. His latest book is SharePoint 2010 Unleashed (Sams).
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Backing Up SharePoint 2010 Content, Configurations, and Components

By Noel, Michael, 09/12/2011

Looking to restore your SharePoint 2010 environment? A good place to start is to use SQL Server’s backup and restore tools and the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell in addition to ...

Going Virtual with SharePoint 2010

By Michael Noel, 05/14/2010

Deploying SharePoint 2010 improperly in a virtual environment can lead to performance problems. Here's what you need to know to deploy a high-performance SharePoint environment ...

Microsoft's Virtualization Support Story

By Michael Noel, 05/14/2010

Microsoft's official SharePoint 2010 support stance is that any SharePoint role or service is supported for hardware virtualization, but it wasn't always that way. Here's the long ...

Going Virtual with Exchange 2010

By Michael Noel, 05/03/2010

Use these guidelines to deploy a fault-tolerant and high-performance virtual Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environment with properly designed virtual hosts and guests and correct ...

5 SharePoint Frustrations You Can Overcome

By Michael Noel, 03/25/2010

If you've deployed SharePoint 2007, you've probably been discouraged by minor frustrations associated with the technology. Here are five of the most common problems and ...

Top 5 Things You Can Do to Prepare for SharePoint 2010

By Michael Noel, 11/10/2009

Get ready for SharePoint 2010--from making sure you've loaded MOSS 2007 SP2 to getting your users upgraded from IE 6.0, there are several important things you can do now.

Configuring SharePoint High Availability

By Michael Noel, 08/25/2009

A highly available SharePoint farm is within your reach, once you grasp SharePoint’s high-availability concepts and apply these best practices.

Safeguard Your SharePoint Content with Data Protection Manager

By Michael Noel, 06/26/2008

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 gives administrators a rich set of SharePoint recovery tools that offer advanced snapshot-based recovery of item-level ...



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