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It isn’t. The people I bought my new hosting space and domain on, never contacted me, nor activated any of the functionality I paid for. This is now nicely handled by Paypal but in the meantime, more then a Month has passed, and I did not move on

That is not really true. I found a !free! host that allows me to host my blog. the offer free hosting of 1.5gb with an SQL Database and PHP support.

As soon as the conflict is resolved by Paypal, I will set up a domain for it too.

I have made a start, with a new template and some new ideas too!

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The server has a hard disk of 20 Gb. What I was not aware of is that when you install the standard out-of-the-box WSS, that the Internal SQL Database it sets-up is using the Full Logging feature. This caused my installation to have a content database of 320 MB, but a log file of 9+ Gig!!

The first thing I did was move some unused install files off the server to create a bit of space. The I had to find out how to connect to the database to see what was going on (by then, I did not know what exactly filled up the hard disk).

WinDirStat

I found out it was the log file by a tool called windirstat, a great (portable) tool that shows the file on the hard disk in a graphical way. This showed directly where the problem was. In the Log file…

This in most tutorials and how-to’s they explain to get the SQL Management Studio express edition and connect to the database. There are 2 things I missed in most explanations.

1. The install must be on the server itself and

2. you have to connect using a pipe. (the connection string: \\.\pipe\MSSQL$MICROSOFT##SSEE\sql\query)

Once connected the most logical and straightforward thing to do was to find the log databases and shrink them, like I read on most posts about this. I did this, and freed up about 200 MB of free space. I felt I bought some time to look into this further, but to my surprise, these 200MB were filled up again in about 3 minutes!

So back to reading…. I found that the correct way to proceed (be ware that correct in this sense is related to freeing up as much space as possible!) would be to change the logging of the content database from Full to Simple first, then truncate the database(BACKUP LOG WSS_Content WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY) and as a last step Shrink it (Instead of using the context menu, I used the SQL Command DBCC SHRINKFILE(WSS_Content_log, 1)
).  Now the Log database size went from the 9.4GB to a mere 2MB!

This all happened a couple of day’s ago, and I have just checked the server and the log files hardly moved!! Thanks to Paramesh @ http://sharepointstuff4u.blogspot.com/

!Update [06/04/2010] !  It has been two weeks now and she is still fooiinnee!!!

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The way we are now working with CI prevents this from happening by involving all the staff in the project. Several changes have been made in the organisation to enable this and to ensure that people can and are getting involved.

The first change has been made in the way people are promoted within the company. In our office, each role has 3 tiers. To change role, or tier, you are required to perform an activity, assigned by our Service Assurance team. These activities are used to give the employee a more broad view of the office and the environment. This is necessary because the it-support staff is usually siloed in projects and or accounts and often don’t see further than that.

On the other side we have opened an Idea Box in Talkfreely (an online  user-feedback tool we use). I know, every company has an idea box. However, we promote it in most communications as the tool for people to suggest improvements instead of the usual “hallway complaining” and submit their ideas. This works as there are always many things to improve, and you need all the (levels of) the staff to pick these up.

Our team, and the company’s CI program is mainly based on the above two inputs. In short:

1. We receive all the ideas, filter them and classify them.

We look at several things, like if it applies company-wide or does it benefit just one team or group…

2. Then we setup an improvement project around an Idea

We use the sharepoint project Tracking template to set-up small project site, define the deliverables and set-up the global project tasks.

3. After that, we pick volunteers who have signed up for an activity.

This is an important step, as we look at the abilities of the applicant, what he or she needs to learn or improve personally.

4. We then manage the volunteers through the activity.

After the selection of a volunteer, we manage them through the project. Depending on the project, the type of work that needs to be done, we manage them differently. However, since empowerment is something that is embraced in our team by our management, we try to cascade this down, and leave as much as possible to the volunteer. Usually underpinned by regular update meetings.

When the improvement has been implemented, giving credit to the person raising the idea and the volunteer running the project this is communicated across the company.

One of the main advantages of the whole system is that it mostly feeds itself. Many Improvement projects fail because of a lack of input, either from the side where new ideas must come in or on the side of finding the right volunteer for the job. Also this system works as a motivator. In our business the job of most people is very monotonous and a change in scenery is often very welcome.

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