Day 2: Support links and Q&A

Today we covered capacity planning, high availability, server roles and migration.  Here are a list of additional links, resources and the answers to some of the questions in the class.

 

Links

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/tags/File+Shares/default.aspx

http://blog.krichie.com/2007/02/21/importingexporting-sharepoint-document-libraries-tofrom-the-file-system/

Tools

SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool

Universal SharePoint Manager

echoTechnology

AvePoint

Metalogix

Tzunami

http://www.casahl.com

http://www.quest.com

Free Extractors: Migration Utilities:

http://www.codeplex.com/SPIEFolder

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Advanced Migration Scenarios

 

Questions

• Can you give me more information on the SharePoint hosting service
  • Microsoft Online Services
• What is the correct Log file recovery mode for the databases
  • It depends, some databases are set to full recovery mode while others are set to simple.
  • http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/04/23/sql-server-2005-database-mirroring-and-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007-part-1-introduction-overview-and-basics.aspx
  • http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175987.aspx
• What is the ACL limit on site collections?
  • 2000 security principles is the recommended limit.  Several users in 1 group count as 1 security principle.
• Can you share the SharePoint Blogs and wikis futures
  • http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/06/07/answers-to-faqs-about-sharepoint-blogs-and-wikis.aspx
• SSP mirroring supported DB
  • Using SQL Server Database Mirroring with Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services
  • http://blogs.msdn.com/mikewat/archive/tags/Disaster+Recovery/default.aspx
  • http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/03/06/configuring-database-mirroring-failover-for-sharepoint-products-technologies.aspx