Day 1: Support links and Q&A

Day 1 of the Advanced SharePoint Server 2007 Training for Architects ended with some questions and some takeaways for me.  During the class, we spoke about authentication, site architecture, governance and deployment options. 

Here is a list of support links we spoke about during class.

Blogs:

• Joel Oleson
• Steve pescka
• John kozell
• Bret Geoffrey
• Eric Charran
• SharePoint team blog

Support Links:

• Download details: Windows 2000 Resource Kit Tool : Setspn.exe

• Kerberos information link

• Kerberos troubleshooting

• Governance links

• Plan for software boundaries (Office SharePoint Server)

• Active Directory Performance for 64-bit Versions of Windows Server 2003

Questions from today:

How do I lock down a WCM site?

• http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/05/10/how-to-lockdown-an-internet-facing-moss-based-web-site.aspx

• http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2006/08/07/extranets-and-intranet-planning-resources-with-wss-v3-sharepoint-server-2007.aspx

• http://www.sharepointblogs.com/peoplenet/archive/2007/02/14/hardening-your-moss-2007-wcm-application.aspx

Are Excel trusted locations automatically added to the a crawl scope?

• No. You would have to add it manually to the crawl list.

Can I add a friendly display name for a forms based auth user account?

• No. The membership provider returns a MembershipUser which does have a display name property, only user logon name property.

What type of optimization can I do the SharePoint databases?

• Information about the Maintenance Plan Wizard in SQL Server 2005 and about tasks that administrators can perform against SharePoint databases

• How to defragment Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 databases and SharePoint Server 2007 databases

• Support for changes to the databases that are used by Office server products and by Windows SharePoint Services