Comments for ITRants.net http://itrants.net Your peers, your partners, YOUR IT PORTAL! Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:15:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 Comment on What is good IT? by jonest http://itrants.net/2008/03/21/what-is-good-it/comment-page-1/#comment-4 jonest Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:15:54 +0000 http://itrants.net/?p=3#comment-4 Agree!! I worked in a Medicare cost reimbursement business that had to justify all expenditures with one justification. Does it contribute to patient care? That makes everyone in the organization aware of the goal and provides easy metrics for management. That's where IT is missing the mark. We should have one justification "Does it contribute to the effectiveness of the business?" Building your metrics and management around that simple question will make your IT shop smooth and effective. Agree!!

I worked in a Medicare cost reimbursement business that had to justify all expenditures with one justification. Does it contribute to patient care? That makes everyone in the organization aware of the goal and provides easy metrics for management.

That’s where IT is missing the mark. We should have one justification “Does it contribute to the effectiveness of the business?”

Building your metrics and management around that simple question will make your IT shop smooth and effective.

]]> Comment on SharePoint 2007 Content Deployment Failures by jonest http://itrants.net/2008/04/23/sharepoint-2007-content-deployment-failures/comment-page-1/#comment-3 jonest Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:07:48 +0000 http://itrants.net/?p=14#comment-3 The content deployment failure that occurs when we were renaming some of the default home pages was: the page already exists. Something to do with the GUID being the same but the name was different when compared to the destination site. We tried putting the original back and no go. We tried deleting the site on the source and destination farms and then starting with the defaults. Still it failed. We had to recreate in another arm of the tree to get it to work. Who doesn't love Content Deployment? The content deployment failure that occurs when we were renaming some of the default home pages was: the page already exists.

Something to do with the GUID being the same but the name was different when compared to the destination site. We tried putting the original back and no go. We tried deleting the site on the source and destination farms and then starting with the defaults. Still it failed.

We had to recreate in another arm of the tree to get it to work. Who doesn’t love Content Deployment?

]]> Comment on SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) Hardware by beairdj http://itrants.net/2008/04/21/sharepoint-2007-moss-hardware/comment-page-1/#comment-2 beairdj Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:56:23 +0000 http://itrants.net/?p=11#comment-2 Would it be possible to share a diagram of your configuration? Just to help me understand all the servers? I understand if you want to hide the IPs. Thanks Would it be possible to share a diagram of your configuration? Just to help me understand all the servers? I understand if you want to hide the IPs.
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