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SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool Released - behind the scenes

The SCCP SharePoint Models were just released via the SharePoint team blog about an hour ago. Let me tell you about some of the behind the scenes on this one. Steve Peshka was really the main SME (subject matter expert). I admit I did have some input
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12 Things to do over the Holidays

If you're in the office and finding there's all of a sudden a chance to read up and catch up on tools, here's 12 things to do over the holidays. 1. Read up on SP1 from TechNet and then the new SP1 information on MSDN Test and Deploy WSS SP1 and MOSS SP1
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Database Repartitioning with MergeContentdbs

Just wanted to do a quick post on database management. Todd Klindt did a great post on moving site collections in a single bound that refers to a very nifty new stsadm command intended for SP1, but included in the October 9 public update called mergecontentdbs

SharePoint Server and the Deathly Hallows

Just finished the latest HP book, not Hewlett Packard, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In addition, I enjoyed the Simpson's movie outtake on Spider Pig and Harry Plopper. You can learn a lot about SharePoint from the movies. You're wondering why

SharePoint Capacity Planning Key Info

WSS 3.0 About performance and capacity planning (Windows SharePoint Services) Estimate performance and capacity requirements for Windows SharePoint Services collaboration environments (Office SharePoint Server) Intel Partner Whitepaper: White paper: Intel

Authentication Load - How many DCs for SharePoint?

First let me start off with what you can find for yourself if you dig. There's an interesting reference at the bottom of a TechNet capacity article: Additional performance and capacity planning factors (Office SharePoint Server) "Domain controllers: It

Understanding your Data

Let's say you scanned your environment and you came up with a report like this for your top 100 files. There's a lot you can glean from this, but you really need to bucket it into groups. Is it collaborative, is it designed for the file system, or is

Sample Data for Capacity Planning

I've been through many conversations that ended with... Ok, if we only knew how large the files were in our company then we could figure out this WAN thing, or figure out this Indexing thing. What's the average word doc or average document size in our

Good List of Performance Counters

Steve Tullis shared some performance counters that the perf team was using. It's a pretty useful list. The only other list I've seen like this in relation to SharePoint was listed in the IT performance whitepaper for 2003. It includes some further data

2003 & 2007 Performance and Scalability - Capacity Planning

I hope you were able to attend Steve Tullis's Capacity Planning Session at the SharePoint Conference a few weeks ago. If you weren't, which I'm sure most that read this won't, I'm including a great chart to help with planning on both 2003 and 2007. Note
 
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