Category Archives: Planning

Newly published SharePoint 2010 documents

Newly published SharePoint 2010 documents. I came across these through some of the tweets that I am following. Thanks to Andreas Glaser for tweeting about these documents   Technical reference for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Brief Description: Technical information about … Continue reading

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SharePoint Server 2010 capacity management: software boundaries and limits

in a Mike Watson session yesterday at the SharePoint Evolution Conference (#spevo at Twitter), Mike mentionned this new document published by Microsoft recently, specifying the software boundaries and limits to take into account when plaaning your SharePoint 2010 infrastructure. His … Continue reading

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lessons learned in my last sps to moss migration project using gradual approach

I have been doing a fun project for a customer, which asked to have his SharePoint Portal Server 2003 farms upgraded to MOSS 2007 using the gradual upgrade approach. I wanted to share some tips and things to consider when … Continue reading

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Using SQL Aliases with SharePoint by Thomas Vochten

Thomas Vochten, a former colleague of mine, wrote about an interesting way to create and configure your SharePoint farm to take into account any possible changes in your backend SQL infrastructure by using SQL aliases on your MOSS servers and therefore … Continue reading

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SharePoint Price Calculator by Jeroen

I am currently on a project where the licence cost for MOSS is causing an issue in this time of financial crisis and all… So I was wondering, is there an easy way to calculate what MOSS costs for your … Continue reading

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What version of WSS/MOSS are you running?

I am preparing to install the new Infrastructure update that has been made available recently and wanted to find out what versions I am currently running. A post on the blog of Aaron Saikovski showed a nice table to determine … Continue reading

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MOSS Capacity planning -> some usefull tips

These bits and pieces come right out of the OFF305_Capacity and Performance Planning for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies 2007 session at TechEd. slides are attached.  Farms: do not split up WebFE servers across WAN’s. Keep all servers part of the … Continue reading

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Some facts you need to be aware of when planning/implementing MOSS

These facts come right out of my first session at TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona. I was in the following sessions when I wrote down these notes: OFF07-IS From Day #1 to Launch  End-to-End Design   Architecture for a SharePoint Server … Continue reading

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