Chris Gideon

Sometimes when I make a post there are thoughts or experiences that don’t make it into the post. This comes from being highly randomized in my job and not dedicating the time to blogging that others do. This alone has made me call into question whether or not I should even bother with blogging.

Some background, I used to be a Senior Premier Field Engineer for SharePoint servicing some of the world’s largest deployments. Prior to that I was in our Critical Problem Resolution team for developer Internet products (IIS, ASP.net etc) and further back still was a Solution Integration Engineer (SIE). Most of my posts come from that experience as I now blog about SharePoint. I done lots of other things in Microsoft including Active Directory and Metadirectory. When I post something it’s because I have personally experienced a challenge with something and I don’t want anyone else to go through it again. Because of this view point and the customers I support there is a tendency on my part to see things in high volumes or various levels of complexity because of their multi-national/geographical distribution. In other words, I have a tendency to make generalizations in my posts that may be practices that only large deployments need be concerned.

My promise: I will cleanup and add context to some of my earlier blog posts or make clarifications. In addition, I will try to point out when a practice only makes sense for a large deployment.