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High Availability, Scale Planning and Amazing work by Mike Watson

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Mirroring, Log Shipping and High Availability resources

Last week at TechReady I attended Mike Watson's and James Petrosky's talk on HA and DR scenarios. Good talk. It reminded me of a few resources: The best resource is " Using database mirroring with Windows SharePoint Services . if(typeof(IsPrinterFriendly)

Massive Scale Deployment - Modularity in SharePoint Farms

I was talking to a team recently about how to scale to the hundreds and thousands of servers to support the extreme large scale deployments. The question was... Let's say you were going to design Myspace or a Wikipedia on WSS or SharePoint Server, how

WSS 3.0 Server Roles and Installation Modes

There are a few ways to deploy WSS 3.0 farms. All in One - (Basic) - installs all components on the same server including Windows Internal Database engine. Looking for a limit or best practice? I don't recommend using this if you plan to store more then

Replication and High Availability

The term replication comes up quite frequently in large deployments. It means a number of things to a number of people. Here are some examples: Geo Replication - Geographical distributed replicated farms (Not supported in the product) SQL Replication

Farm Topology Gotcha... Query server caution!

In a previous post I mentioned the WFE/Index role and how making the index server have a WFE (Use a Dedicated WFE for Indexing) role can optimize your traffic and throughput (less hops) as well since the requests can be made locally. I still think it's

SharePoint Backup Restore, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery

This post has been long comming. I recently spent some time with Samer Sawaya of SharePoint Recycle bin fame :). We have some good memories working through that one. You can thank me later for the 2nd stage not getting cut, I fought hard for that. We
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NLB (Network Load Balancing) and SharePoint... Troubleshooting and Configuration tips.

Joys of NLB. Customer was recently asking me about issues they were having with NLB and Kerberos. He came across a recent KB 325608 where authentication delegation through Kerberos doesn't work straight forward in load balanced environments. There are
 
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