Hi!
My name is Troy Lanphier, and I am a SharePoint Architect working in Houston, Texas. I have been building SharePoint solutions for almost 5 years now (since the end of SPS2003 beta 2).
My prior experience includes a large amount of infrastructure work in:
- Storage Area Networks (HP/Compaq and Dell, primarily)
- Server Infrastructure and Integration
- Disaster Recovery
- End User and Systems Administration Training
Why a Cookbook?
Well, quite honestly, as much for me as for the folks reading this Blog. I write a lot of documentation about the SharePoint environments I implement, but this is very specific in nature, tailored for the particular customers I work for.
In a word, Recipes - I wanted a place that I can look up the items I find myself doing over and over for different customers; things like automatically registering iFilters for Search, configuring LDAP filters for User Profile Imports, and so on. In addition, from time to time, I may discuss overall architectural strategies for SharePoint installations which I have implemented (no clients named, however) and will document the pros and cons of how I built these environments.
Before You Run Off...
Note that the Recipes found in this site may have been originally crafted for specific clients. I will try and make sure that items such as scripts, etc. are cleaned up as much as possible to make them generic, but the responsibility ultimately falls to you, the reader, to ensure that you test all solutions thoroughly in a Development or Test environment before deploying to your Production environment.
I hope that you will find this useful, and I will try to update this site regularly. Thank you for your attention. - Troy Lanphier
