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Load Testing Reveals Cause of SharePoint Server Performance Problem
SharePoint Magazine
A New System’s Poor Performance
Although it seems obvious that adding hardware resources to a system should provide improved performance, a customized Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server (MOSS) website cluster showed the opposite in recent testing for a customer. Load testing with 200 simulated users gave disappointing results, with page durations between 10 and 30 seconds, and the system handling only about four pages per second. Curiously, reducing the cluster to a single SharePoint® s [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 30th '10 |
Sharepoint 2010 and Authentication
SharePoint Magazine
In the last few articles I’ve shown you how to configure FBA in MOSS 2010 and @007 as well as shown you the fundamental difference in Windows Authentication and FBA. In the following article I will introduce and show you how to enable the Windows (Kernel Mode Authentication) in Shareoint 2010 based on the new security settings built into Windows 2008.
Sharepoint 2010 Kernel-mode Authentication
This is a new setting in IIS7 (Windows 2008 and Vista SP1) that when enabled increases authentica [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 12th '10 |
Forms Authentication vs. Windows Authentication in SharePoint
SharePoint Magazine
Now that you’re aware of the Authentication types in MOSS 2007 and MOSS 2010 I thought it would be necessary to go into the differences and pros and cons between the two.
Note: Both authentication ,methods can be applied to both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010.
There are several functional and operational differences between sites that are secured with Windows authentication and those that are secured with forms authentication. The following sections highlight several of the more impor [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 11th '10 |
Setting up Forms Based Authentication for SharePoint 2007
SharePoint Magazine
In this article I’ll go through SharePoint 2007′ s FBA setup which is built on top of ASP.NET 2.0, so ASP.NET developers should feel right at home developing against, and customizing this method.
As most of you are aware some of the technologies in SharePoint, like Master Pages and Forms Authentication, are “not-quite-the-latest technologies” from ASP.NET.
In this article, I’ll cover some of the quirks to Forms Authentication that you will or have encountered whe [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 10th '10 |
Setting up Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010
SharePoint Magazine
Welcome to the first of a 4 part series where I’ll be guiding you through the do’s and don’ts of setting up SharePoint FBA on different versions of the SharePoint platforms, being MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010 as well as outlining specific differences, which I’ve bumped my head on a few times over the years to realize and become fully aware of.
For those of you that don’t know, Forms Based Authentication (FBA) allows a web user to access a SharePoint site and get ac [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 9th '10 |
Partner Spotlight: Mint Management Technologies
SharePoint Magazine
Mint Management Technologies (Pty) Ltd - Profile
Mint Management Technologies (Pty) Ltd was established in 1971 and has rendered market intelligence gathering and deployment solutions to South African corporate and multi-national companies for over 38 years.
Mint Research (traditional) provided a traditional print media advertising verification service to the South African advertising industry. It includes checking of CI’s against newspaper and magazine tear sheets; surveys monitori [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 8th '10 |
SPoint.me – The SharePoint Social Network
SharePoint Magazine
It gives me great pleasure to introduce you to SPoint.me . SPoint is aiming to become the premier Social Network for people in the SharePoint Industry. Its a little bit of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, and Wordpress, all rolled into one.
Differentiate yourself
Create a User Group
Launch your products
Provide Support
Engage
Connect
Some of the features are listed below, but the best way to understand, is to sign up More details in the next few weeks.
Blogging
Start a blog built on the bes [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 2nd '10 |
Everything You Need to Know about BDC: Part 8 of 8
SharePoint Magazine
Welcome back to Part 8 of our 8-part series on the Business Data Catalog (BDC). From the previous 7 installments, we have covered everything about BDC, from BDC architecture, ADF, BDC Web parts, BDC search and profile, to the BDC object model in details. We also touched the surface of BDC actions in Part 4 and Part 5. As promised, we’ll dedicate this final article to actions. We’ll explain what the BDC actions are and what they can do for you. We’ll then walk you through how to create [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 8th '10 |
Avoid Newbie Mistakes: 10 Steps to Successful SharePoint Deployments
SharePoint Magazine
A common word that keeps popping up around SharePoint deployments is “Governance,” as if it will help you avoid chaos and have a more successful deployment. The answer is, when executed properly, it can. Governance consists of rules and guidelines for designing a service offering. Its goals aren’t to shut down a deployment and make it take forever, but, rather, to find balance in user flexibility while providing for IT oversight. Here are 10 key steps to help you be successful in designing [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 17th '09 |
SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 4
SharePoint Magazine
Introduction
As a Front-end Developer with a background in designing I’ll show you how to make a graphical design that works for a default SharePoint-environment. If you want to take control over the front-end, don’t use any themes. Create your art by using style sheets!
Not all graphical designs for a portal will work in a SharePoint environment. There are a couple of limitations the Graphical Designer must know. A Graphical designer needs to know the scope of the graphical design. [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 24th '09 |
SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 3
SharePoint Magazine
Introduction
As a Front-end Developer with a background in designing I’ll show you how to make a graphical design that works for a default SharePoint-environment. If you want to take control over the front-end, don’t use any themes. Create your art by using style sheets!
Not all graphical designs for a portal will work in a SharePoint environment. There are a couple of limitations the Graphical Designer must know. A Graphical designer needs to know the scope of the graphical design. [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 23rd '09 |
SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 2
SharePoint Magazine
Introduction
As a Front-end Developer with a background in designing I’ll show you how to make a graphical design that works for a default SharePoint-environment. If you want to take control over the front-end, don’t use any themes. Create your art by using style sheets!
Not all graphical designs for a portal will work in a SharePoint environment. There are a couple of limitations the Graphical Designer must know. A Graphical designer needs to know the scope of the graphical design. [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 22nd '09 |
SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 1
SharePoint Magazine
Introduction
As a Front-end Developer with a background in designing I’ll show you how to make a graphical design that works for a default SharePoint-environment. If you want to take control over the front-end, don’t use any themes. Create your art by using style sheets!
Not all graphical designs for a portal will work in a SharePoint environment. There are a couple of limitations the Graphical Designer must know. A Graphical designer needs to know the scope of the graphical design. [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 21st '09 |
Partner Spotlight : Tam Tam
SharePoint Magazine
CompanyName : Tam Tam
Company Website URL: http://www.tamtam.nl
Company Blog: http://www.tamtam.nl/blogs.aspx
Public Email: info@tamtam.nl
Social Sphere:
Address: Tam Tam Patrijsweg 80, Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland 2289 EX, Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)15 750 2000
No. of employees: 50-250
Microsoft Partner Status: Gold
Capability
Communications and Collaboration
Enterprise Content Management
Enterprise Search
Unified Communications
Other
Company History:
“In 1996 [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 20th '09 |
SharePoint Magazine Partner Spotlight
SharePoint Magazine
SharePoint Magazine is excited to introduce a new program for Microsoft Partners. The idea is simple:
Full focus on the magazine for 1 week, Monday to Friday.
Free advertising on the magazine for 1 week
Monday = Full Partner Profile and Biography
Tuesday to Friday = 4 part article series on a SharePoint topic
I dont want to say more than that at this point. Why not tune in on Monday to view our first Partner:
“Tam Tam is a full-service internetbureau.We link concept, design and techni [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 17th '09 |
Dissecting Dashboards (Part 4 of 6)
SharePoint Magazine
We’ve talked about scorecards and KPIs, now it’s time to put it all together and build a dashboard. I will be using PerformancePoint as my tool of choice because as of Office 14, it will be included with MOSS and, as I’ve mentioned before, I kinda like it! Our plan of attack will be as follows:
Create a datawarehouse
Create a data source
Create a Time dimension
Add Indicators (the pretty bits)
Create KPIs
Create a scorecard
Define how KPIs rollup
Add a report
Create a [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 10th '09 |
SharePoint Farm configuring and deployment Part 6 – Post Deployment
SharePoint Magazine
This series of articles provide an overview of how to plan, build and configure the common SharePoint farm across your organization.
Part 1 – Architecture and Logical Planning
Part 2 – Installation
Part 3 – Development Environment
Part 4 – Backup and Recovery Strategy
Part 5 – Virtualization
Part 6 – Post Deployment (final)
Post Deployment
Manage all SharePoint ports
There are about 20 different ports SharePoint use and they need to be open across firewalls [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 25th '09 |
SharePoint Farm configuring and deployment. Part 5 – Virtualization
SharePoint Magazine
This series of articles provide an overview of how to plan, build and configure the common SharePoint farm across your organization.
Part 1 – Architecture and Logical Planning
Part 2 – Installation
Part 3 – Development Environment
Part 4 – Backup and Recovery Strategy
Part 5 – Virtualization
Part 6 – Post Deployment (final)
Virtualization
Virtualization in SharePoint farm is one of the key design factors that simplify server availability by providing number [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 22nd '09 |
Everything You Need to Know about BDC: Part 7 of 8
SharePoint Magazine
Welcome back to Part 7 of our 8 Business Data Catalog (BDC) series. In this article, we will be focusing on the BDC Object Model. We start off by explaining why we would need the BDC Object Model and what it can do for us. From there we will look at some examples. Then we’ll step into the code and develop our own data access layer and custom applications to read from and write back to the LOB (line of business) systems. Finally we’ll conclude with best practices.
For your reference, these ar [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 16th '09 |
Go Green with SharePoint
SharePoint Magazine
Go Green with Office SharePoint Server
1. Introduction
2. Benefits of going green with SharePoint
3. Knowledge Management – Going green
4. Go Green – Green Benefits of Content Management
Introduction
Organizations are constantly looking for ways to cut costs, but don’t realize that those cost cutting measures may also have positive environmental effects that can increase goodwill and shareholder value.
Microsoft SharePoint solutions provide tremendous return on investment, but also m [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 16th '09 |
SharePoint Farm configuring and deployment. Part 4 – Backup and Recovery Strategy
SharePoint Magazine
Part 1 – Architecture and Logical Planning
Part 2 – Installation
Part 3 – Development Environment
Part 4 – Backup and Recovery Strategy
Part 5 – Virtualization
Part 6 – Post Deployment (final)
Backup and Recovery Strategy
Use separate server for Disaster Recovery (DR)
Use additional server with installed SharePoint for DR. Do not connect this server to the existing SharePoint farm – it should be isolated environment with single SharePoint installation, [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 12th '09 |
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