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Monday, September 22, 2008 1:54 PM

SharePoint Customization Best Practices

At the SharePoint Best Practices Conference, there was quite a bit of interest in customization, specifically best practices for customization in SharePoint. The current bible on that topic was written by my buddy, Sean Livingston, a PM in the SharePoint
Posted by Michael Watson | 2 Comments
Tuesday, September 09, 2008 12:50 PM

SharePoint and Virtualization - Better Together!

I'm really excited about virtualization and think it's the best way to streamline deployments and get the most bang for buck out of your hardware. However, there are some important differences between virtual and physical environments that you need to
Posted by Michael Watson | 3 Comments
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:00 PM

Improving SharePoint with SQL Server 2008

You might have noticed that SharePoint SP1 now supports SQL Server 2008 :-) http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/08/15/sql-server-2008-support-for-sharepoint-products-and-technologies.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/mikewat/archive/2008/08/19/sql-server-2008-is-now-officially-supported.aspx
Posted by Michael Watson | 12 Comments
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 10:19 AM

I’m Speaking at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference

It’s official. I’ll be at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference September 15 th – 17 th in Washington DC. This will be a great conference. There are a lot of great speakers and sessions and the focus on best practices will cut out all the fluff. If
Posted by Michael Watson | 2 Comments
Monday, June 23, 2008 3:36 PM

SharePoint Reporting - What's Up?

Joel and I had a lot of fun doing this video for TechEd Online about the state of SharePoint reporting. SharePoint Reporting—What's Up? Key Points about SharePoint 2007 reporting. Project and team based site collection administrators will find out of
Posted by Michael Watson | 6 Comments
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 9:43 AM

Web Stress Test White Paper Published

Steve Smith, the MVP extraordinaire from the UK and part owner of Combined Knowledge along with Penny Coventry, MVP extraordinaire from PPP Consulting just released a white paper showing how to configure a load test end to end using VSTS 2008. This is
Posted by Michael Watson | 3 Comments
Thursday, April 03, 2008 10:03 AM

More Clarification Needed? Geographic Separation of SharePoint Farm Components.

I continue to hear questions and debate over how to build local or regional immunity into a single SharePoint farm. Enterprising SharePoint folks want to make sure that their SharePoint service remains online even if Dr. Evil fires the “laser” at their
Posted by Michael Watson | 8 Comments
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:36 PM

Yank a Server from NLB when it fails?

  It's about 30 minutes from the start of my session on H/A at the SPC. One of the things I talk about in the session is how easy it is to monitor your web servers for failure and yank them from NLB when they do. I've posted the example code below.
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Monday, March 03, 2008 10:08 AM

The Newest Version of the Database Mirroring Whitepaper for SharePoint has been released

Using Database Mirroring with Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services Wow! This one took a while to update. We added more prescriptive information on the type of supported topologies. It also recommends SQL connection aliasing for failover
Posted by Michael Watson | 5 Comments
Thursday, February 28, 2008 10:36 PM

Database Maintenance Whitepaper just published.

A very proactive Bill Baer has released his database maintenance whitepaper. There's some great stuff in here straight from MSIT best practices. {updated link - Thanks Shane!} http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=111531&clcid=0x409
Posted by Michael Watson | 3 Comments
Thursday, December 06, 2007 3:08 PM

THE Storage WhitePaper is Available.

Update: seems the link changed: New link is http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263261.aspx Make sure to read this one.
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Sunday, November 18, 2007 12:39 PM

SharePoint and Storage

There is lots of good information on how to optimize storage for SQL, perhaps too much. Some great articles to read for those interested: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/physdbstor.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/workingwithtempdb.mspx
Posted by Michael Watson | 8 Comments
Friday, November 16, 2007 4:15 PM

Mirroring and Bandwidth

I just completed some testing to see how much network bandwidth between SQL nodes affects synchronous mirroring performance. The SQL mirroring white paper indicates that bandwidth does not matter much above 10Mbps, but that may lead you to the wrong conclusion
Posted by Michael Watson | 5 Comments
Saturday, October 27, 2007 7:08 PM

BDC Performance Over the WAN

Are you centralizing your SharePoint deployment? Do you want to integrate backend data sources located in distant lands with SharePoint using the BDC? Here's something to think about. BDC does no caching of data sources. So what does that mean? If you
Posted by Michael Watson | 1 Comments
Friday, October 26, 2007 12:14 PM

SQL Aliasing Pros and Cons

I wanted to write a quick note on the good and bad of using SQL aliasing for redirecting SharePoint between mirrored SQL nodes. Good - It's a very simple solution. Each application server in the farm simply needs to be configured with the alias information.
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