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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 6:35 PM

Pilots, Proof of Concepts, Test, and Pre Production Environments

Although you may not find many references to dev, test, staging, environments, these are critical to large deployments. Even in the commodity type space where you are simply hosting the out of the box SharePoint code, it still very important if not critical
Posted by joelo | 10 Comments
Wednesday, December 05, 2007 11:54 AM

10 Things To Optimize your SharePoint Server Indexing

1) Put your Search db and on separate disks transaction logs, both the fastest most optimized disks with fast optimized spindles for writing (dedicated disks are essential) 2) Optimize your temp db : grow it, give it space, you can even split it into
Posted by joelo | 13 Comments
Monday, December 03, 2007 11:15 AM

SharePoint Server Topology - Server Roles and Services on Server

Many of you may think this is basic info, so don't over think what I'm saying here. I'm sitting in Shane Young's Admin class and realizing that the services on server and the server roles match up isn't very clean. Let me share some thoughts on server
Posted by joelo | 9 Comments
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 6:03 PM

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
Posted by joelo | 19 Comments
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 5:01 AM

Network Variables and Network Testing

Working on some Network and WAN scenarios. I wanted to share some thoughts... I've recently been working with Kimmo Forss, Dino Data-on, Steve Peschka, Luca Bon and Brenda Carter on a global deployment whitepaper taking their knowledge and getting it
Posted by joelo | 2 Comments
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 7:06 AM

High Availability, Scale Planning and Amazing work by Mike Watson

Removed per request of Engineers... awaiting updates.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 10:18 PM

Huge Educational SharePoint Deployment - Miami Dade County Public Schools

Everyone is always looking for the huge case studies. You don't have to go to Microsoft.com for this one. See the Miami Herald's coverage of the Miami Dade SharePoint Deployment http://www.miamiherald.com/295/story/208130.html Few good quotes: "The school
Posted by joelo | 0 Comments
Thursday, August 09, 2007 5:44 AM

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
Posted by joelo | 5 Comments
Thursday, July 12, 2007 7:44 PM

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
Posted by joelo | 6 Comments
Monday, July 09, 2007 5:36 PM

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
Posted by joelo | 22 Comments
Friday, June 29, 2007 8:01 AM

Performance and Capacity Planning for SharePoint Products and Technologies

By Product 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:
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Friday, May 11, 2007 2:07 AM

SharePoint RSS TTL

I was visiting with a customer yesterday and he was asking about how to configure the content in his RSS to expire sooner. I had to look this up. My searches on the web and on the intranet were fruitless. Believe me, finding info when searching for the
Posted by joelo | 4 Comments
Wednesday, May 02, 2007 9:58 PM

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
Posted by joelo | 1 Comments
Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:04 PM

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
Posted by joelo | 2 Comments
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Saturday, April 21, 2007 12:47 AM

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
Posted by joelo | 4 Comments
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